where wooded, in some places low and receding, in others 
rising in terraced bluffs 70 feet above the lake. The 
beach is of clean sand and the sandy lake bottom slopes 
gradually into deep water, affording ideal conditions for 
bathing and boating. 
The Biological Station lies in the centre of a circle of 
the famous summer resorts of northern Michigan. In 
clear view from the highest terrace of the Station and 
a mile and a half to the south is Burt Lake, much larger 
than Douglas Lake and one of the chain of lakes and 
rivers which form the celebrated “Inland Route’ from 
Petoskey on Lake Michigan to Cheboygan on Lake Hu- 
ron. ‘Thousands of tourists traverse this route every 
summer and are charmed as the little steamer which car- 
ries them passes alternately through narrow, tortuous 
streams and. broad stretches of open lake. Of the sum- 
mer resorts on the Inland Route, Topinabee on Mullet 
Lake is best known and is a station of the Michigan 
Central Railway 8 miles from the Station. 
A drive of 12 miles from the camp to the west over 
the state road brings one to the resort region of Petos- 
key, Bay View, Harbor Springs, and Harbor Point on 
Little Traverse Bay, while some 20 miles west of Petos- 
key is Charlevoix on Lake Michigan. Seventeen miles 
north of Pellston on the Straits of Mackinac is Macki- 
naw City, from which a ferry runs seven miles to Macki- 
nac Island, in historical association and scenic beauty the 
gem of the Great Lakes region. 
The topography of the region immediately about the 
Station is such as to afford a variety of floral and faunal 
conditions. . The region is characteristically sandy and 
the home of the ground pines, wintergreen, and trailing 
arbutus, but there are areas of broad-leaf trees and 
shrubs with their usual accompaniments in flora and 
fauna. Deer and foxes occur in the neighborhood. ° 
Among forms of especial interest to Zoologists may be 
mentioned Lota (the fresh water codfish), Necturus (the 
