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to live in the town. Vacation life in a village boarding house 
with work in a school room offers too little relief from the 
ordinary experience of the student or teacher to be especially 
attractive in itself. If the School is to be maintained—and I 
sincerely hope that it may be—we should have a plot of land on 
the banks of Quiver Lake, two miles and a half above Havana, 
should have erected there a building suitable for summer use as 
a students’ laboratory, should provide facilities for life in camp 
to those who prefer them, and should also make it possible for 
students to live either at that place or in town. 
Fifteen students were in attendance throughout our term 
of four weeks. The only instructors regularly engaged were 
Assistant Professor Frank Smith, of the Department of Zodlogy, 
and Instructor C. F. Hottes, of the Department of Botany. The 
work was carefully planned and very thoroughly and efficiently 
done, and was received very cordially by all in attendance. 
Publication of papers has been made by the State Labo- — 
ratory to the full limit of our appropriation for this purpose, 
nine articles of our Laboratory Bulletin, comprising four hundred 
and thirty-eight pages of text and sixty plates, having beén 
printed and distributed during the last two years. They set 
forth mainly the general results of our Biological Station work 
combined with the results of studies by advanced students and 
the Station staff upon other collections of the State Laboratory, 
but include also an article on scale insects of the State and one 
on insect disease. The influence of the State Laboratory upon 
the Department of Zodlogy is shown by the fact that three of the 
above papers, each a valuable contribution to science, have been 
prepared by University students in the course of their work for 
first and second degrees. Such work would have been entirely 
beyond their reach except for the materials, equipment, and 
literature provided by the Laboratory, which has also borne the 
expense of their publication and illustration. 
With respect to the future of this work I am strongly of the 
opinion that a decided advance should be made-in the Natural 
History Survey, for which the Laboratory is responsible under 
the law of its establishment. The annual appropriations made 
of late have been too small to provide for more than the neces- 
sary operations of the Entomologist’s office, which they are 
