Excerpt from A List of the Rotatoria of the Great Lakes and of Some of the Inland Lakes of Michigan The following is a list of the Rotatoria observed by me in Lake St. Clair and in some of the inland lakes of Michigan. The summer of 1892 was spent with a party of the employes of the State Fish Commission who were making a systematic examination of the inland lakes of Michigan, and I was able to determine some of the Rotifera of a number of the lakes in the western part of the State - in Muskegon Newaygo, Oceana and Mecosta Counties. The summer of 1893 was spent in the State Fish Commission Laboratory at New Baltimore, on Lake St. Clair, and a more extended study was made of the Rotifera of this lake. The list makes no claim to completeness; scarcity of specimens or lack of time prevented accurate determination or complete description of many forms which I observed, and of course many have entirely escaped observation. I have followed in the list the order used by Hudson and Gosse in their Monograph of the Rotifera and, except in two or three cases where they have been shown to be wrong, I have used their names and classification. For the species which have been described since the Mongraph was published (1889) I give the synonymy and references to the original descriptions. It has not seemed necessary to give synonymy or references for species described in Hudson and Gosse's work, except in cases where the synonymy here given differs from that of the Monograph. References are given by adding in parenthesis after the name of the author the date of the publication to which reference is made. At the end of the paper, will be found the titles of the publications under an alphabetical list of the author's names; to the titles are prefixed dates corresponding to those in the text. Six of the 122 species noted are here described for the first time. In the case of the smaller inland lakes, collections were made from the vegetation of the shore and bottom, but the tow net was little used, so that the pelagic Rotatoria of these lakes are not well represented in the list. In Lake St. Clair on the contrary the tow net was used systematically at various depths and at various distances from shore, so that for this lake the list of pelagic Rotifera may be considered nearly complete. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."