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 summer 
resorts on the Inland Route, Topinabee on Mullet Lake 
is best known and ts 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 mud puppy), 
the bald eagle, and the ant-lion. A half mile south of the 
camp is a remarkable gorge which ends abruptly against 
a bluff some seventy feet high. From the bottom of the 
bluff there issue numerous springs which yield more than — 
a million gallons of water a day and form a trout stream 
which follows the gorge to Burt Lake. This gorge is 
several hundred feet wide and its bottom and sides present 
conditions for a great variety of plants and animals, from 
