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had occupied in town were given up, and the property there 
accumulated was placed on board the laboratory boat. When 
the Station was opened the following summer it was necessary 
to secure storage elsewhere for property of a bulky nature or 
that for which there was only occasional use, and by the cour- 
tesy of the Illinois State Fish Commission we utilized a corner 
of their warehouse on the river front until the burning of the 
building in September. We suffered no loss of consequence, 
and our property, some of it in a damaged condition, was then 
returned to the laboratory boat for the winter. In 1898 the 
problem of storage was temporarily solved by the purchase of a 
cheaply constructed cabin boat twelve by twenty feet. 
Although no formal opening of the Station to students was 
made during the summer of 1897 and no advertisements of its 
facilities was undertaken, a few applicants for places were ac- 
commodated under the conditions attending the opening of the 
Station to such persons in previous years. The following is a 
list of those in attendance and the lines of work pursued. 
H. C. Beardslee, A. B., Instructor in Science, University 
School, Cleveland, Ohio. Fleshy fungi and Mycetozoa. 
Miss Bertha V. H. Forbes, B. S., Teacher of Biology, High 
School, Austin, Ill. General biology. 
H. M. Kelly, A. M., Professor of Biology, Cornell College, 
Mt. Vernon, Iowa. Trematoda parasitic in Unionide. 
S. D. Magers, B. S., Principal of High School, Houston, 
Texas. Algwe and general biology. 
H. L. Roberts, Superintendent of Schools and Principal of 
High School, Farmington, Ill. General biology. 
The following year a Summer School of Biology, with regu- 
lar courses in botany and zodlogy and offerings of advanced 
work in zodlogy was planned, and authorized at the March meet- 
ing of the Board of Trustees. The school was well advertised 
in the educational journals, and preliminary and final circulars 
were distributed as far as possible among the teachers of the 
State. Extended advertising in the neighboring states was not 
attempted. The Station staff was mainly responsible for pack- 
ing and shipping the equipment sent over by the University and 
the State Laboratory and for its return, for the registration of 
students, and for the financial management of the school. No 
