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EXPENSES. 



The Station is a department of the University of Montana. The 

 policy of the State Board of Education is to make all work of the Uni- 

 versity free to residents of the State. In conformity with this plan there 

 is no tuition or laboratory fee charged. Students attending will pay for 

 breakage. It is thus possible for students to come from remote sections 

 of the State, spend six or eight weeks in study under the most favorable 



conditions, with the best facilities the State affords, at a minimum ex- 

 pense. Correspondence is invited. There is no similar work offered in 

 the Northwest. Considering the difference in fees and the facilities for 

 camp life attendance may be made with as little expense as at eastern 

 stations from the same distance, with work in a new field, and with side 

 trips and short expeditions such as no other station offers. 



Fig. 37. View of the northern end of Mission range, showing 

 glaciated hills. Fathead river and lake in foreground, Swan range 

 in background. Swan river flows through the gap and into the lake 

 on the left. As the laboratory is on the bank of the river the location 

 is readily understood. Photo by Walter Lehman. 



TO OUR EASTERN FRIENDS. 

 The laboratory has had students from a dozen states. No student 

 has come to the mountains and gone away disappointed. Cheap railway 

 rates make it possible to visit the west at a minimum cost. The Station 

 affords a place where our scientific brethren may make headquarters, 

 from which they may collect in almost virgin fields, scale unnamed 

 heights and revel in mountains with grand scenery, seek the unknown in 

 the pathless forest, under guidance of those who have spent years in this 

 field. The Station fills a unique place in the work of the fresh water 

 stations of the world. No other place in the world offers a more attrac- 

 tive or more varied field for study. 



BIGFORK. 



This is a village which has come into existence since the establish- 

 ment of the laboratory in 1899. It has a postoffice with daily mail, sev- 



