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institution or locality, in the prosecution of any investigation 

 which our locality and equipment may permit. I believe this 

 represents the spirit of the Board of Trustees, the President, and 

 all ofhcially connected with the laboratory. I beleve this to be 

 full)' shown by the equipment already furnished and the attitude 

 shown in making these facilities equally accessible to all who may 

 desire to use them. We hope educators and scientific workers in 

 our own and adjacent states especially will find it a profitable 

 meeting ground and feel that its opportunities are open on the 

 most liberal basis to all. 



It ma}- seem that the fragments of knowledge we gather are 

 very insignificant, and it is entirel}^ possible that we may not 

 make any startling discoveries, but we should remember that the 

 great body of science consists of innumerable individual facts, 

 blended and related to a harmonious whole — as individual grains 

 of sand comprise the long stretch of land, the magnificent beach, 

 and the sightly dunes which constitute the basis of our new home. 

 So we may hope that in all the new facts we gather we shall be 

 able to correlate them with those already known, to blend them 

 and round them to a more perfect s^^mmetry, in short to add 

 perhaps minute but essential parts to the completion of great 

 structures. 



Finally, I desire to express my profound thanks to the many 

 who have evinced a cordial interest in our work, and especially 

 to those who have taken the pains and time to be with us to-daj'. 



FLORA OF CEDAR POINT. 



W. A. Keli^ERMAN and O. E. Jennings. 



This brief report represents the work on the Cedar Point Flora 

 as completed to date, so far as listing the observed species is 

 concerned. 



Various botanists had collected there in the past, — E. h. 

 Moseley, Wm. Krebs, Edo Claassen, L. D. Stair, W. A. Keller- 

 man, and others, — but not until the publication of Prof. Moseley's 

 excellent Catalogue was there any comprehensive list of the 

 plants of this region. In the " Sandusky Flora " Prof. Mose- 

 ley specifically reports 1 1 1 species for Cedar Point ; for most of 

 the commoner plants of Krie County no particular locality was 

 given. 



In the Cedar Point Herbarium, prepared in 1903, and deposited 

 at the Lake Laboratory, we have 316 species of the flowering 

 plants and ferns mounted. Besides these there have been report- 

 ed, either in the " Sandusky Flora " or elsewhere, 71 .species 

 more, thus making a total list for Cedar Point of 387 species of 

 the flowering plants and ferns. 



