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and its capacity will doubtless be increased as necessity requires. 
It is a two-storv frame building 2'J x 66 feet, the upper floor of which 
is used for investigation and the lower in part for students’ labora- 
tory tables. It is supplied with city water, a number of aquaria, has 
a convenient dark room for photographic work, and answers admir- 
ably for the purpose for which it is used— that is, for a temporary 
summer laboratory. The laboratory is supplied with two boats 
PART OF LABORATORY ROOM, LOWER FLOOR. 
equipped with sails, and designed especially for work in the bay and 
marshes. Dredges, seines, plankton net and other collecting apparatus 
are provided, while microscopes, microtomes, books, and other labor- 
atory equipments are taken from the university. 
While under the management of the Ohio State University, it 
is desired to make the laboratory as useful as possible to instructors 
and investigators in biology, wherever located. To this end table 
