effect plans for the development of the waterfront property and
the improvement of the waterways of the State.

DEPARTMENT OF RESEARCH AND EDUCATION
Chapter 508..Acts of 1941. '

The Department of Research and Education is hereby created to
exercise the present functions of the Chesapeake Biological Labora-
tory and the Maryland Weather Service, and to develop a compre-
hensive research and educational program covering all the natural
resources of 'the State. The supervision of the Department shall be
vested in a Commission of Research and Education consisting of five
members to be appointed by the Governor from among the citizens
of the State, each of whom shall have had training and experience in
scientific investigation and research, especially in the field of natural
resources. The members of the Commission shall select their own
Chairman.

The members of the Commission shall be appointed for terms of
five years form June 1, 1941, but the terms of the first members
appointed shall expire in one, two, three, four and five years, re-
spectively

The Commission shall appoint a competent Director of Research
and Education, who shall have special training and experience in
investigating problems in the field of natural resources and the
handling of educational matters, and be a graduate of an accredited
college The Commission may also appoint such assistants as may be
necessary, all personnel to be selected in accordance with the Merit
System law.

Dr. Lloyd M. Bertholf,

Western Maryland College, . . .1943.......... Westminster, Md.
Dr. Julian D. Corrington,

Washington College. ......... .1942. ............... Chestertown
Dr. Ernest N. Cory,

University of Maryland....... 1946.......... College Park, Md.
John T. Handy. ................ .1946. .................. Crisfield
Dr. B. H. Willier,
John Hopkins University. .... .1944. ................. Baltimore

CHESAPEAKE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY

Dr. B. V. Truitt, Director and State Biologist.............. Solomons
G. Francis Beaven, Associate Biologist, Resident Manager ..Solomons
David H. Wallace, Associate Fishery Biologist............Solomons
Dr. Rodney A. Olsen, Associate Biologist. ................. Solomons
Elizabeth McFarland Wallace, Assistant. ................. Solomons

The Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, located on Solomons Island,
in the mid-region of the Chesapeake Bay Country, is making marked