Journal of 



Applied Microscopy 



and 



Laboratory Methods. 



Volume IV. 



APRIL, 1901, 



Number 4 



The Laboratory Equipment of the " Bahama Expedi- 

 tion" from the University of Iowa. 



The problem which confronted the originators of this expedition was the very 

 common one of getting the greatest possible educational results for a very small 

 expenditure of money. The plan was to furnish a floating laboratory and home 

 for a class of university students which should lack no really necessary thing for 

 comfort and reap the best results from a scientific standpoint. It was deter- 

 mined, moreover, to work in the best possible field and to extend our operations 



HAULING UP THE DREDGE. 



down to a sufficient depth to reach the deep water fauna. That such a plan 

 should originate in a university that is almost in the geographical center of the 

 United States is not so strange as might at first appear, for the reason that we 

 of the interior feel more deeply, perhaps, than our brothers of the coast, the 

 immense advantage of study of marine life to those who would grasp fundamen- 

 tal biological facts, and if it was necessary to take a class over a thousand miles 

 to reach salt water at all, we argued that we might as well go a thousand miles 



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