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 

 fivers 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 Mackinaw 

 City, from which a ferry runs seven miles to Mackinac 

 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 men- 

 tioned Lota (the fresh water codfish), Necturus (the 

 mud puppy), the bald eagle, and the ant-lion. The flora 

 is noted for the number of species of heaths and orchids, 

 including several rare forms. About 650 species of flow- 



