1 78 The Ohio Naturalist. [Vol. IV, No. 8, 



appropriate, but being delivered without manuscript are, unfortu- 

 nately, not available for publication. The others were published 

 in the Sandusk}^ Register in its issue of July 3d. 



Prof. Herrick's address, "The Summer I^aboratory as an 

 Instrument of Biological Research" (printed in full in Science, 

 Vol. XVIII, No. 452, p, 263, August, 1903), after treating in a 

 very instructive and interesting manner of the sphere of the 

 summer biological laboratory or station, its duties and responsi- 

 bilities, closed with the following encouraging words for the 

 Cedar Point Station : 



' ' The summer laboratory should be a clearing house of scientific 

 ideas, not merely a hotbed or forcing house for budding researches. 

 To meet this need it is evident that the greater the diversity in 

 personnel and range of interests represented, the better. That 

 which the universit}' student prizes most is the intimate daily 

 contact in the lecture room and laboratorj- with his instructors. 

 In the properly organized summer biological station every worker 

 conies into that same sort of relation with every other worker, 

 and this, I take it, is the best that the station can offer to its 

 patrons. To attain the highest efficiency there must, therefore, 

 be sufficient flexibilit}- of organization and diversity of interests 

 represented to correct the tendencies toward intellectual inbreed- 

 ing which we find in most of our university and college labora- 

 tories and to secure a sort of cross-fertilization of scientific 

 organizations. 



"Regardless of the individual investigator's problem and method, 

 he can well afford to utilize such opjDortunitics ; indeed, he can- 

 not afford, except in unusual cases, to neglect them for long 

 periods, if he would retain his intellectual tone and elasticity. 

 The station, in short, is an exceptionalh- favorable aid in effect- 

 ing that breadth of view and perfection of co-ordination which 

 we have seen to be the keystone in the arch of scientific achieve- 

 ment. 



"It is a source of congratulation to us, the members of this 

 laborator}^, that these liberal principles are clearh^ at the founda- 

 tion of our present organization. Our director has made it ver)^ 

 plain not only by word of mouth, l)ut much more forciMy in 

 practical ways, that it is to be the policy of our laboratory to 

 secure the widest co-operation among all the men of science of 

 our State. To this, as the representative of organized science in 

 Ohio, I have pleasure in responding with equal cordiality that it 

 will be our purpose to share in the great work here established 

 to the full extent of our ability, by attendance when possible, and 

 by sympathetic interest at all times. While we are the gainers 

 by this liberal hospitality offered l)y the laboratory, it is certain 

 tliat the lal)oratory in thus casting its bread upon the waters will 

 find it again after many da)'s." 



