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The purpose of the station is simply to afford a convenient 
plant for students and instructors of the State University first, 
and any one else when there is room, to study the living forms 
of this favorable locality. 
Work has been carried on at Sandusky for two summers. 
Some of the lines of work undertaken, in which progress has 
been made, are these: (a) fishes inhabiting the bays, their food 
and parasites; (6) nesting habits of the marsh-inhabiting birds; 
(c) the aquatic insects; (d) the Rotifera; (e) the fresh-water 
sponges; (f) the crayfishes. Some progress has been made in 
determining the amount, character, and distribution of the 
plankton. 
The collections are mostly transferred to the university, and 
abstracts of the work reported to the Ohio Academy of Science, 
usually as reports of progress on the biological survey, which is 
being directed by a committee of the academy. The station 
will be open but a short time in 1898, as the survey is to be 
carried on in other parts of the state. 
This station is in no sense a school; every man looks after 
his own interests, giving and receiving advice, as occasion may 
demand. 
THE BroLoGicaL STATION OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY. 
A biological station for the Indiana University was suggested 
by Professor Eigenmann to the Board of Trustees in 1893, and 
he was enabled to open the station in 1895. The object in view 
being well defined and a number of localities being from a 
natural standpoint equally suitable, the location was determined 
by the finding of an old boathouse suited to the purpose on the 
shores of Turkey Lake. Windows were cut, boards laid to 
cover the larger cracks in the floor, and work begun. 
As there was no fund available to defray the expenses of the 
station, a number of courses of instruction were offered to raise 
the necessary money, to permit a few “laboratory grubs” to 
attain their full development, and to start a few other students 
at work in the natural habitat of the beginner in zodlogy— the 
woods, the water, and the fields. 
