PROGRAM AND ITINERARY 



Charles J. Fish, Director 

 Buffalo Museum of Science 



The need for correlation in limnological work 

 has been recognized in planning the present program. 

 Bigelow (1930) has expressed this need very well: 

 "... in the further development of sea science the 

 keynote must be physical, chemical, and biologi- 

 cal unity, not diversity, for everything that takes 

 place in the sea within the radius of any one of these 

 artificially divorced sciences impinges upon all the 

 rest of them. " Unfortunately, much of the scien- 

 tific data previously acquired could not be utilized 

 in such a general problem as that concerning the 

 natural economy of Lake Erie. Not until the inter- 

 relationships of the various factors are more fully 

 understood can an application of these miscellaneous 

 data be made. It was for this reason that the present 

 survey was planned in such a manner that the staff 

 functioned as a unit, concentrating on each particu- 

 lar area simultaneously. 



In order to ascertain the cause for the decline 

 in the fishery the investigations were designed to de- 

 termine the significant physical, chemical, and bio- 

 logical conditions in the lake at the present time 

 and the extent to which human interference has af- 

 fected the natural environment of the animal popu- 

 lation. 



*Marie P. Fish, Ichthyologist, Buffalo Museum of 



Science, Buffalo, N. Y. 

 •Paul R. Burkholder, Microplanktonologist, 



Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. 

 Roger C. Williams, Chemist, City Health Depart- 

 ment, Buffalo, N. Y. 

 Andrew M. Zillig, Bacteriologist, City Health 



Department, Buffalo, N. Y. 

 Reginald H. Pegrum, Topographer, Buffalo Museum 



of Science, Buffalo, N. Y. 

 Albert E. Allin, Asst. Ichthyologist, University of 



Toronto, Toronto, Canada 

 Willis L. Tressler, Asst. Microplanktonologist, 



University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 

 Elizabeth L. Saunders, Scientific Assistant, Brown 



University, Providence, R. I. 

 *Vernon S. L. Pate, Artist, Cornell University, 



Ithaca, N. Y. 



The staff in 1929 consisted of those designated 

 by the asterisk in the above list and the following 

 additional members: 



Charles K. Green, Hydrographer, U. S. Coast & 



Geodetic Survey, Washington, D. C. 

 Casimir J. Munter, Chemist, Ohio State University, 



Columbus, Ohio 

 Arthur H. Louden, Asst. Ichthyologist, Queens 



University, Kingston, Ontario 

 Ralph M. Buchsbaum, Asst. Phytoplanktonologist, 



University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin. 



The work was carried on in 1928 under the joint 

 auspices of the United States Bureau of Fisheries, 

 the New York State Conservation Department, the 

 Ontario Department of Game and Fisheries, the 

 Health Department of the City of Buffalo, and the 

 Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences. To the orig- 

 inal five cooperating institutions, the Ohio Division 

 of Conservation was added in 1929 when the area 

 was extended to include a portion of Ohio waters. 



The staff in 1928 consisted of the following in- 

 vestigators: 



•Charles J. Fish, Director, Buffalo Museum of 



Science, Buffalo, N. Y. 

 "Charles B. Wilson, Macroplanktonologist, 



Westfield Normal School, Westfield, Mass. 

 Richard Parmenter, Hydrographer, United States 



Bureau of Fisheries 



In 1928 the investigations covered that portion 

 of Lake Erie lying east of a line from the New York 

 State boundary to Long Point. In this area of 1, 701 

 square miles 23 stations were located and observa- 

 tions made weekly so far as possible, from July 26 

 to September 15. For this work the U. S. Bureau 

 of Fisheries Steamer Shearwater , an 85 -foot vessel 

 of 95 gross tons, was used. 



During the interval from June 15 to July 26, 

 1928, a modified program was substituted to cover 

 the shallow area about the margin of the lake (fig. 2), 

 the New York State gasoline launch Navette being 

 used. These observations had not been planned and 

 were arranged when unforeseen difficulties delayed 

 the arrival of the larger vessel. The work, however, 

 proved very desirable, for the marginal area formed 

 a connecting zone between the open lake and the 

 alongshore waters then being investigated on the 



