[Reprinted from Science, N. S., Vol. VIII., No. 203, 

 pages 685-689, November 17, 1898.] 



THE FAUNA AND FLOE A ABOUT COLDSPEING 

 HAEBOE, L. I. 



The Biological Laboratory of the Brook- 

 lyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, located 

 at Coldspring Harbor, Long Island, has 

 during the nine years of its existence ac- 

 cumulated an important lot of information 

 concerning the animals and plants of the 

 vicinity. Especially during the present 

 season has the attention of the investigators 

 been in great part directed towards a bio- 

 logical survey of the locality. Of the sur- 

 vey the following may be regarded as a 

 preliminary report. 



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The conditions at Coldspring Harbor are 

 as follows : The Harbor is a body of water 

 about five miles long and from one and a 

 quarter miles to a quarter of a mile wide, 

 which opens at its broader end into Long 

 Island Sound, itself an inland sea, about 

 eighty miles from where it debouches into 

 the open ocean. Opening into Coldspring 



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