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VAWTER PARK.The Bioological Station There This Summer.Botanical and Zoological Courses to be Offered. Large Enrollment for this Summer.The fourth annual session of the Biological Station will be held - this year from June 21 to August 25. The work in general of the station at present is to make a physical and biological survey of Turkey and Tippecanoe lakes. These two lakes are each on opposite side of the divide which separates the St Lawrence from the Mississippi basins. The variations of the auimals and plants in this region are made the objects of study. The instruction given to the more elementary students is principly field work, in which the lake flora and fauna are taken up; the effects of environment on living forms, and many other phases of biology that cannot be so easily given in the regular college laboratories.This method of field work is both pleasurable and profitable. The ten weeks spent here in field work, studing the actual habits as well as anatomy and physiology of plants and animals, is considered equivalent to a whole year’s work in the coliege laboratory, and students are accredited tor the work, accordingly.The life at the lakes is certaiu-ly a very pleasant experience. All day long there are no conflicting recitations, and students may spend their whole time in out door exploring tramps, or in laboratory practice. When the evening comes there are the beautiful lakes with their boats and bathing pools, and the student may indulge in these pleasures, with the peaceful assurance that his days’ work is done and that there are no bug bear lessons hanging over his head, which must keep him studying far into the hot night.The location of this is as heretofore to be at Vawter Park, Kosciusko county, Indiana, on the southern shore of Turkey Lake, The laboratories at the station occupy two buildings, each 18x25 feet- One of the buildings is well equipped! with laboratory instruments and reagents and can accommodate about sixty students. For investigation work there are provided four row boats, seins, dredges and other equipments. There also many handsome private boats to be on the lake this year. Dr. Slouaker, has just finished a very pretty boat, which will be provided both with oars and sails. This will be the first sail boat to appear on the lake, and will make a very beautiful appearance.The summer will be divided into two terms of five weeks each. The first term begins June 22, at 8.00 end ends July 22, at 5:00. The second term^begins July *5, at 8:00 and ends August 25, at 5:00. All the courses are open to the students on the same conditions as those given at the University. Students below Freshman standing are not accommodated at the Lake. The tuition fee is $30 for the summer, or$25 if the entire fee is paid before the end of the first week. The fee for one term is $15. No reduction is made for partial work or for parts of a term. The expenses at the lake, couuting all, are very reasonable.Rooms and board may be had in farm houses at $3 per week; at private boarding houses at $5 per week-and at the hotels at $8 per week. Thus it is seen that students may be accommodated at any price and live in any style they choose. Most students live in teuts, add many do their own cooking, and in . this way greatly reduce their expenses. The tenting ground is very beautifully situated in a grove near 1 the lake, and will be provided this , year with a driven well and many other sanitary arrangements. A $1 fee is charged for these tenting , grounds by the owner. The station is reached by the Baltimore and , Ohio railroad, or by a Michigan Division of the Big F'our railroad. Return tickets are purchased to Wawasee. From here the station will be reached by boats.The following courses are offered at the Station:ZOOLOGY1. General Zoology2. Segmentation and Morphogenesis.4. Histogenesis5. Research6. The Lake Fanna7. Seminary lectures and reports,BOTANY1. Filementary Botany2. Miscroscopic Anatomy3. General Botany.About 100 students have signed for work in the above courses, for the summer of ’98.The Faculty at the Biological Station consists of the following:Carl H. Eigenmanu, Prof. of Zoology.W. D. Dennis, Prof. of Biology.Albert B. Ulrev, Prof. of BiologyJohn R. Slonaker, Instructor in Zoology.Frank M. Andrews, Instructor in Botany.Miss Rousseau McClellan, Assistant in Botany.Chaucey Juday, Curator of Museum.Winfield A. Denny, Naturalist.mil n
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Bloomington Student
Bloomington, Indiana, US
Fri, May 20, 1898
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