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the lax care usually given to such property in this locality 
greatly increase our danger of loss by wreck or fire while we 
remain in our present location. The experience of the past two 
years has only emphasized the necessity of the location of the 
Station at some suitable point —if at Havana, on Quiver Lake — 
where we can control property which will afford us an abun- 
dance of room, freedom from disturbance, facilities for carrying 
on the shore operations that pertain to our work, and the loca- 
tion of breeding ponds. . 
The Station was occupied by the Station staff and in full 
operation in 1897 during the months of July, August, and 
September, and in 1898 from June 13 to October 1. In 
addition to this, monthly visits were made to it for plankton 
work during the winter and spring of 1897, and beginning 
with the autumn of 1897 visits were made for the same pur- 
pose until the full opening of the Station in June, 1898. As 
a result of these visits a very full series of winter collections 
has been accumulated. Since September 1, 1898, Mr. Wallace 
Craig, resident Assistant at the Station, has been in charge 
during my absence. Previous to this time the property of the 
Station was cared for at such times by Mr. Miles Newberry, 
who has been in our employ as general collector, janitor 
and engineer for the past four years. His service has been 
efficient and faithful in all the manifold and varied tasks which 
fall to his hands. 
The work of the Station has been in the main prosecuted 
along the lines established in previous years, with a few 
expansions In some directions and curtailments in others. 
The primary purpose of the Station, that of investigation, has 
been carried on along three principal lines: entomology, ichthy- 
ology, and the quantitative investigation of the minute life of 
the water. The entomological work has been in the hands of 
Mr. C. A. Hart, who was at the Station during considerable 
intervals in 1897 and 1898. 
Investigation of the fishes was taken up in July, 1897, by 
Prof. Frank Smith, and was continued by him until September 
1 of that year. In the summer of 1898 this work was taken 
up by Mr. Craig, and additional equipment has been provided. 
The Station was equipped with a hundred-yard river seine of 
