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Fish Commission by a party in charge of Professor Reighard, 
located at Put-in-Bay, in Lake Erie. 
The University of Minnesota maintained for several years at 
Gull Lake a laboratory for summer work in connection with 
the Natural History Survey of that state. The establishment 
of a station has also been agitated in the state of Iowa during 
the past year. The University of Rochester is raising funds 
for the equipment of a station at Hemlock Lake, thirty miles 
south of Rochester, in western New York. This station will 
probably be opened next year, and will occupy buildings 
furnished by the city of Rochester. Instruction will be the 
main purpose of its organization. 
The description of the Ohio station, given herewith, was one 
of the last pieces of work which its late director, Prof. D. S. 
Kellicott, accomplished before his fatal illness. The account 
of the Indiana station was furnished by its director, Prof. Carl 
Eigenmann. 
THE LAKE LABORATORY OF THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY. 
This laboratory is at Sandusky, on the grounds of the city’s 
pumping station, near a cove of the East Bay. It consists of 
the second story of the State Fish Hatchery; there is one 
large room with work table, and three small ones for the use 
of investigators. The supply of trawls, plankton nets, seines, 
insect nets, etc., is ample. Microscopes, reagents, and glass- 
ware are supplied as needed from the university. There is also 
a small sailboat. The most pressing needs, by way of equip- 
ment, are better aquaria and a larger and more seaworthy boat; 
these will be added in the future. 
Sandusky is as favorable a place for the study of fresh-water 
fauna and flora as is likely to be found on the Great Lakes. 
` Many species of fish spawn in the bays or about the adjacent 
islands; crustaceans, worms, sponges, and protozoans are 
abundant. If one wants a most favorable place to study 
water birds, none is better in this latitude than the extensive 
marshes and sand dunes in the vicinity of Sandusky. 
