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The Ohio Naturalist. 
[Vol. IV, No. 8, 
In June, 1901, President Thompson reported to the Board of 
Trustees that a petition had been sent to the Ohio Phsh and Game 
Commission, asking for the use of the lower stor}- of tlie building 
at Sandusk}’ heretofore occupied by the Lake Laboratory, and 
produced a letter from Mr. L. H. Reutinger, secretar\’ and chief 
warden, saj-ing that the request had been granted. The prepara- 
tion of such story was devolved upon Mr. Mack with the result 
that we all know. The provision was onh- temporarj-, and the 
indefatigable, silent and efficient Professor Osborn “kept at it,” 
to use a little pardonable slang, until June 16, 1902, at a meeting 
of the Board of Trustees, President Thompson presented a list of 
improvements which, in his opinion, were desirable to be made in 
the next two j'ears, and among them was a Lake Laboratory- 
building at Sandusky to cost $2,500. After a full discussion of 
president’s report the erection of a Lake Laboratory building was 
authorized and the sum of $2,500 was appropriated therefor. At 
the same meeting a committee consisting of Trustee Mack, Pres- 
ident Thompson and Secretary Cope was appointed to secure if 
practicable a permanent lease of land on which to erect such lab- 
oratory. The rest is recent history and is quickly told. Plans 
were at once prepared by Professor Bradford under the direction 
of Professor O.sborn. The Cedar Point Pleasure Resort Company, 
through its officers. Messrs. Jacob Kuebler, president. Geo. A. 
Boeckling, manager, and Hon. Eugene Guerin, generously tend- 
ered the present site, and on April i, 1903, a formal lease thereof 
at a nominal rental was tendered to the Board of Trustees and 
accepted. On the same day the plans drawn by Professor Brad- 
ford were approved and the committee before named to secure the 
lease was directed to let the contract for the building. 
At the opening of this fine building so well adapted to the pur- 
poses for which it was intended, it is fitting that proper acknowl- 
edgements should be made to those who have been connected with 
the Lake Laboratory in its origin, growth and final consumma- 
tion. 
The Lake Laboraty at Sandusky was first conceived by the late 
Professor David S. Kellicott. He thought out the plan for its 
establishment, indicated the scope of its work, and organized and 
directed it until the time of his death. It would be most fitting 
and proper if some memorial or tablet commemorating this fact 
could be perpetuated. 
To the Hon. H. B. Vincent of McConnelsville, late President 
of the State Fish and Game Commission, we owe a delit of grati- 
tude for the friendly co-operation which made the establishment 
of a Lake Laboratory at Sandusky a possibility. 
To all those who have been connected with the location and 
erection of the pre.sent building, thanks and congratulations freely 
flow from all who are assembled here to-day ; to the architect. 
