MARIXE ZOOLOGICAL STATION 



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THE SWEDISH KRISTIXEBERG MARIXE ZOOLOGICAL 



STATION 



By Professor CHARLES LINCOLN EDWARDS 



TRINITY COLLEGE 



~A~TESTLED among the outcropping granite ledges and islands of 

 -L-^ the west coast of Sweden, lies the village of Fiskebackskil, near 

 which on Skafto has arisen the Kristineberg Marine Zoological Station. 

 The primordial mass of the surrounding rocks and hills was planed off 

 in curved and deeply-scratched surfaces by the vast ice-sheet of the 

 glacial epoch. From the crests of the hills one can see the blue waters 

 of Gullmar fjord penetrating inland and, off to the west, beyond Gaso, 

 Flatholm and others of the protecting archipelago of islets, the white 

 capped waves of the Kattegat. 



Lichens and mosses partly incrust the rocks, and from every soil- 

 collecting crevice, grass and wild flowers give life to the hills near at 

 hand, while at some distance the great rocks seem bleak and desolate. 

 In these patches of wild flowers the colors are brilliant, pink heather 

 contrasting with blue-bells and golden hokfibla. Beside the pools of 



The Kristineberg Zoological Station, approached from the Bay. 



