EXPLANATION OF PLATES 



Plate IX— 



Fig, 1 — Sandy beach south of Laboratory dock, looking south. 

 Fig. 2 — ^Low area along edge of woods south of Miller's Bay Hotel. 

 Fig. 3 — Marsh southeast of Miller 's Bay Hotel with Lake in distant back- 

 ground and Beck canal along edge of woods. 



Plate X— 



Fig. 1 — Beck canal in foreground with marshes, kettleholes and woods in 

 background. 



Fig. 2 — Lookout, a gravelly knoll west of the Laboratory, looking east. 



Native prairie in foreground. 

 Fig. 3 — Field of red clover, timothy, blue grass, and a few native prairie 



plants on high prairie along 0. E. I. & P. E. R tracks, Estherville. 



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