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ILLINOIS possesses a good Laboratory of Natural History, in which Prof. S. A. Forbes, with a number of assistant entomologists and zoologists, carry on investigations of value to science and the State. A report on the work of the Laboratory during the past two years has recently been issued. To us the points of special interest with which it deals are (1) the establishment, in 1894, of a biological station for the continuous investigation of the aquatic life of the Illinois River, and its dependent waters, near Havana; and (2) an elaborate expeiimental research carried on during the past year to determine means for the destruction of the chinch bug, and especially for the dissemination of the contagious diseases of that insect. This investigation was undertaken by the Laboratory staff, with the co-operation of the State Agricultural Experiment Station.
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Biological Work on the Illinois River. Nature 51, 593–595 (1895). https://doi.org/10.1038/051593a0
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