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and its capacity will doubtless be increased as necessity requires. 

 It is a two-story frame building 2j x 66 feet, the upper floor of which 

 is used for investigation and the lower in part for students' labora- 

 tory tables. It is supplied with city water, a number of aquaria, has 

 a convenient darl< room for photographic work, and answers admir- 

 ably for the purpose for wliich it is used — tliat is, for a temporary 

 summer laboratory. The laboratory is supplied with two boats 



PART OP liABOKATORY ROOM, I.OWBR FLOOR. 



etiuipped witli sails, and dtsigned especially for work in the bay and 

 marshes. Dredges, seines, plankton net and other collecting apparatus 

 are provided, while microscopes, microtomes, books, and other labor- 

 atory e(|uipments are takf^n from the university. 



While under the management of the Ohio State ITniversity, it 

 is desired to make the laboratory as useful as possible to instructors 

 and investigators in l)iology, wlierever located. To this end table 



