Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1894 [PAGE 322]

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STATE LABORATORY OF NATURAL HISTORY.

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completion. I t will doubtless be ready for the press at the usual date. The same circumstances have delayed the publication of the second volume of the series of final reports on the zoology of the state, t h a t concluding Mr. Ridgway's contribution to the ornithology of Illinois. I t now awaits only the copying of certain plates, the originals of which were destroyed by fire in Springfield. Additional papers, either prepared by the laboratory force and printed elsewhere or published in our own bulletin since my last report, are as follows: by the director of the Laboratory, "A Preliminary Report on the Aquatic Invertebrate Fauna of the Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, and of the Flathead Region of Montana," "The Progress of Economic Entomology during t h e years 1891 and 1892," a "Presidential Address," read before the American Association of Economic Entomologists, August 14, 1893, and the "Report of the Director of the Aquarium of t h e United States Fish Commission at the World's Columbian Exposition;" by Professor H. Garman, "A Synopsis of the Reptiles and Amphibians of Illinois;" by Dr. F. W. Goding, "Bibliographical and Synonymical Catalogue of the Described Membracidae of North America;" by Prof. G. H. French, "Description of two New Deltoid Moths;" by Mr. W. E. Loucks, "The Life History and Distribution of the Prothonotary Warbler in Illinois;" and by Prof. C. W. Rolfe, t# List of Altitudes in the State of Illinois."

REMOVAL OF LABORATORY.

Since my last report to you the State laboratory has occupied the rooms assigned to it in the new Natural History Hall of the University of Illinois, five on the first floor and two in the basement. These rooms are a director's office, 21 ft.xl9 ft., a library room 32x22, an assistants' laboratory 36x21, a collection room 61x36, two large store rooms, andaa dark room for photography. These rooms have now been completely fitted up, and provided with new furniture made to our order especially for our purposes. The insectary (a separate building) has also been thoroughly refitted during the present year, and its office room refurnished and more completely equipped.

LABORATORY STAFF.

The laboratory staff continues as in previous years, except t h a t Mr. John Marten resigned August 15th, after more than six ^ears of faithful service as field entomologist; t h a t Mr. W. G. Johnson was appointed July 1st as assistant entomologist to the laboratory; and t h a t Mr. Frank Smith, instructor in zoology, in t h e University has been assigned to the State Laboratory as assistant zoologist for a part of his time, in place of assistant Professor Summers. Mr. C. A. Hart, who has heretofore been our office entomologist, has been placed in immediate charge of all the laboratory collections. Respectfully submitted.

S. A. FORBES,

Director of Laboratory.