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appropriate, but being delivered without manuscript are, unfortu- 
nately, not available for publication. The others were published 
in the Sandusky Register in its issue of July 3d. 
Prof. Herrick’s address, “The Summer Laboratory as an 
Instrument of Biological Research’’ (printed in full in Science, 
Vol. XVIII, No. 452, p. 263, August, 1903), after treating in a 
very instructive and interesting manner of the sphere of the 
summer biological laboratory or station, its duties and responsi- 
bilities, closed with the following encouraging words for the 
Cedar Point Station : 
“ The summer laborator}’ should be a clearing house of .scientific 
ideas, not merely a hotbed or forcing house for budding researches. 
To meet this need it is evident that the greater the diversity in 
pensonnel and range of interests represented, the better. That 
which the universit}’ student prizes most is the intimate daily 
contact in the lecture room and laboratoiw with his instructors. 
In the properly organized summer biological station every worker 
comes into that same sort of relation with ever\’ other worker, 
and this, I take it, is the best that the station can offer to its 
patrons. To attain the highest efficiency there must, therefore, 
be sufficient flexibilit}’ of organization and diversity of interests 
represented to correct the tendencies toward intellectual inbreed- 
ing which we find in most of our uuiversit}' and college labora- 
tories and to secure a .sort of cross-fertilization of scientific 
organizations. 
"Regardless of the individual investigator’s problem and method, 
he can well afford to utilize such opportunities ; indeed, he can- 
not afford, except in unusual cases, to neglect them for long 
periods, if he would retain his intellectual tone and elasticit}'. 
The station, in short, is an exceptional!}- favorable aid in effect 
ing that breadth of view and perfection of co-ordination which 
we have seen to be the keystone in the arch of scientific achieve- 
ment. 
“It is a source of congratulation to us, the members of this 
laboratory, that these liberal principles are clearly at the founda- 
tion of our present organization. Our director has made it very 
j)lain not only i)y word of mouth, but much more forcibly in 
practical ways, that it is to be the policy of our laboratory to 
secure the widest co-operatiou among all the men of science of 
our State. To this, as the representative of organized science in 
Ohio, I have pleasure in responding with equal cordiality that it 
will be our purpose to share in the great work here estal:)lished 
to the full extent of our ability, by attendance when po.ssil)le, and 
by sympathetic interest at all times. While we are the gainers 
1)V this liberal ho.s])itality offered by the laboratory, it is certain 
tliat the laboratory in thus casting its bread uiion the waters will 
find it again after many da}'s.’’ 
