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REPORT OF STATE LABORATORY OF NATURAL HISTORY.

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STATE LABORATORY OF NATURAL HISTORY.

STEPHEN A.

FORBES, P H . D.,

DIRECTOR.

Regent of the University: I n accordance with the suggestion of the Committee on Publication, I have the honor to transmit herewith to the Trustees of the University, for publication in their biennial report, a statement of the operations of the State Laboratory of Natural History, under my direction, for the two years closing September 30, 1888—this being substantially a summary of the quarterly reports made to the Board at its regular meetings. The work of the Laboratory is two-fold, relating on the one hand to the natural history survey of the St te (formally authorized and organized by the Legislature of 1884-85), and on the other to the State Entomologist's office (established in 1867), the working funds of which are all derived, under existing arrangements, from the Laboratory appropriations. As State Entomologist, I am directly responsible only to the Governor; but the entomological and the general zoological work going on under my charge are so intimately blended that I can not well report upon one without including the other; and as both are now supported by State appropriations administered by this Board, I have thought best to include both in this statement.

DR. PEABODY, DEAR S I R : ORGANIZATION.

S. H,

The working force of the Laboratory for the past two years has included a director, serving without salary*; a botanist, Professor T. J. Burrill; a botanical assistant, Mr. M. B. Waite; a zoological assistant, Professor W. H. Gar man; two entomological assistants— one especially assigned to field work, Mr. C. M. Weed, succeeded by Mr. John Marten, and one to office entomology, Mr. C. A ,

* The item of $2,000 par annum appropriated as salary of the Director of the Laboratory (Laws of Illinois, 35th General Assembly, p. 71, sec. 1) is not drawn or available so long as that officer is also State Entomologist (Laws of Illinois, 34th General Assembly, p. 24, sec. 4).

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