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has gone out, though in the past few days 

 there have been renewed signs of a break up. 

 The season is evidently very bad, and the 

 weather is getting much colder and more 

 blustering. Under these circumstances I am 

 getting all the stores I can from the Morning, 

 hoping to send her back to ISTew Zealand in 

 a week or so and to free ourselves at a later 

 date. We shall be fully prepared for another 

 winter, and I should not deplore it except as 

 a waste of time. All our people remain as 

 keen as possible. I think it would be difficult 

 to imagine a happier or more comfortable 

 community, considering how closely we are 

 thrown together. If we get back this sea- 

 son it is my firm intention to do my best to 

 raise money in the colonies for a third season, 

 if the funds are not forthcoming from home. 

 I think it would be difficult to praise Colbeek 

 too highly for the manner in which he has 

 followed our track, picked up our records, and 

 found this ship ; it has all worked out wonder- 

 fully well, but it must be appreciated what 

 meagre information he had to work on, how 

 intelligently he has followed the scent. The 

 manner in which he and his ship's company 

 lay themselves out to help us in every possible 

 manner here is beyond all praise. We shall 

 be quite comfortable, and I cannot think the 

 harbor will remain closed for two seasons in 

 succession. 



TEE BERMUDA BIOLOGICAL STATION. 



The time for making application to work 

 at the temporary biological station at Ber- 

 muda has been extended from June 1 to 

 June 15. Till June 1, application may be 

 made to Professor C. L. Bristol, University 

 Heights New York City. After that to Pro- 

 fessor E. L. Mark, 109 Irving St., Cambridge, 

 Mass. 



One hundred ^dollars provides first-class 

 passage from New York to Bermuda and 

 return, six weeks' board and lodging — ^but not 

 washing — at the Hotel Frascati, Flatts, Ber- 

 muda, ample facilities for collecting the ani- 

 mals and plants of the coral reefs, lagoons 

 and shores, and a table in a temporary labo- 

 ratory furnished with the ordinary glassware, 



reagents' and apparatus provided in modern 

 marine laboratories. The building secured 

 for the laboratory is well constructed and 

 new. 



If applicants are able to send information 

 as to the subject or subjects on which they 

 desire to work, it will aid the management 

 in making better provision for their accom- 

 modation. It may be possible in some cases 

 to provide the use of a certain number of 

 books and monographs, if applicants indicate 

 those which they can not themselves procure. 

 It should be understood that the oppor- 

 tunities offered are for investigation and that 

 no formal instruction will be given. 



E. L. Mark, 

 C. L. Bristol. 



THE LAKE LABORATORY OF THE OHIO 

 STATE UNIVERSITY. 



The Lake Laboratory of the Ohio State 

 University this summer will enter upon a 

 new period of growth. The Cedar Point 

 Pleasure Resort Company, which owns the 

 long stretch of land bordering the east branch 

 of Sandusky Bay has given a site for the new 

 laboratory building in a most commanding 

 and beautiful position where the laboratory 

 will have at its very doors a magnificent 

 stretch of Lake Erie beach, extended sand 

 dunes, a native forest of cedars and other 

 fine trees, an arm of the bay with good harbor 

 for small boats and ready access to the larger 

 bay and also an extensive swamp with a very 

 varied vegetation. 



The lease on this site runs for fifty years 

 with privilege of renewal for a like term on 

 the same conditions as to free rental, access 

 of roads and freedom from buildings between 

 laboratory and Lake front, and the Eesort ■ 

 Company grants free transportation to stu- 

 dents and workers at the laboratory on its 

 steamers which, during the summer, ply be- 

 tween Sandusky and the resort two or three 

 times per hour from early morning till late 

 at night. The distance from the city being 

 but two miles will make it possible to choose 

 in the matter of living between the city board- 

 ing houses and the use of rooms in the labo- 



