1 82 The Ohio Naturalist. [Vol. lY, No. 8, 



In June, 1901, President Thompson reported to the Board of 

 Trustees that a petition had been sent to the Ohio Fish and Game 

 Commission, asking for the use of the lower story of the building 

 at Sandusky heretofore occupied by the Lake Laboratory, and 

 produced a letter from Mr. L,. H. Reutinger, secretar\' and chief 

 warden, saying that the request had been granted. The prepara- 

 tion of such story was devolved upon Mr. Mack with the result 

 that we all know. The provision was only temporary, and the 

 indefatigable, silent and efficient Professor Osborn "kept at it," 

 to use a little pardonable slang, until June 16, 1902, at a meeting 

 of the Board of Trustees, President Thompson presented a list of 

 improvements which, in his opinion, were desirable to be made in 

 the next two 3-ears, and among them was a Lake Laboratory 

 building at Sandusk}' to cost $2,500. After a full discussion of 

 president's report the erection of a Lake Laboratory building was 

 authorized and the sum of $2,500 was appropriated therefor. At 

 the same meeting a committee consisting of Trustee Mack, Pres- 

 ident Thompson and Secretary Cope was appointed to secure if 

 practicable a permanent lease of land on which to erect such lab- 

 oratory. The rest is recent history and is quickh' told. Plans 

 were at once prepared by Professor Bradford under the direction 

 of Professor Osborn. The Cedar Point Pleasure Resort Company, 

 through its officers. Messrs. Jacob Kuebler, president, Geo. A. 

 Boeckling, manager, and Hon. Eugene Guerin, generoush' tend- 

 ered the present site, and on April i, 1903, a formal lease thereof 

 at a nominal rental was tendered to the Board of Trustees and 

 accepted. On the same day the plans drawn b}' Professor Brad- 

 ford were approved and the committee before named to secure the 

 lease was directed to let the contract for the building. 



At the opening of this fine building so well adapted to the pur- 

 poses for which it was intended, it is fitting that proper acknowl- 

 edgements should be made to those who have been connected with 

 the Lake Laborator}' in its origin, growth and final consumma- 

 tion. 



The Lake Laboraty at Sandusky was first conceived by the late 

 Professor David S. Kellicott. He thought out the plan for its 

 establishment, indicated the .scope of its work, and organized and 

 directed it until the time of his death. It would be most fitting 

 and proper if some memorial or tablet commemorating this fact 

 could be perpetuated. 



To the Hon. H. B. Vincent of McConnelsville, late President 

 of the State Fish and Game Commission, we owe a debt of grati- 

 tude for the friendly co-operation which made the establishment 

 of a Lake Laboratory at Sandusky a possil)ility. 



To all those who have been connected with the location and 

 erection of the present building, thanks and congratulations freely 

 flow from all who are assembled here to-dav ; to the architect, 



