11 
years, and the library additions for this period number 648 
volumes and 764 pamphlets. 
RESIGNATIONS AND APPOINTMENTS. 
Dr. ©. A. Kofoid has tendered to me his resignation of 
his position as assistant in the State Laboratory of Natural 
History—a position which, in his case, involved the superin- 
tendency of the Biological Station and the nominal rank of 
an assistant professor of zodlogy in the University. This resig- 
nation is in consequence of an appointment received by him as 
Assistant Professor of Zodlogy in the University of California. 
With the leave until January 1, kindly granted to him on our 
behalf by the University of California, I can to advantage dis- 
pense with a Station Superintendent for the remainder of the 
present appropriations’ period, and I recommend that his 
resignation be accepted, and that for the present no appoint- 
ment be made to the vacancy thus created. His withdrawal 
from active station work has necessitated some redistribution 
of service among the remaining members of the Laboratory 
staff, and I have to report for your approval the following list 
of assignments and salaries for the fiscal year now current: 
Mr. Thomas Large, Ichthyological Assistant, at eighty-five 
dollars a month, H. C. Forbes, Business Agent and Librarian, 
at one hundred dollars a month, and Miss Mary J. Snyder, 
Secretary, and Miss L. M. Hart, Artist, on the same terms as 
last year. 
STATE ENTOMOLOGIST’S OFFICE. 
The account of the operations of the State Laboratory 
can scarcely be regarded as complete without brief mention 
at least of the operations of the State Entomologist’s Ottice, 
closely associated with it. Although the work of this office is 
legally and financially independent of that of the State 
Laboratory, it is substantially a branch of the work of the 
Natural History Survey of the State limited to entomology in’ 
the broad sense, and directed mainly to economic ends, but 
resulting, nevertheless, in very large accumulations of speci- 
mens and data which will ultimately be available for the 
zoological reports. 
