MARINE ZOOLOGICAL STATION 



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The Sailboats and the Motor Sloop " Sven Loven " in the Harbor. 



best advantage, so that now the station lias a very substantial granite 

 building in addition to the old laboratory erected in 1884. There are 

 also three residences., a water tower reservoir and smaller houses for 

 pumping salt-water and generating acetylene gas. A motor sloop of 

 ten tons, the Sven Loven, completely fitted with winding-reel, and the 

 various patterns of trawls and dredges, as well as an enlarged granite 

 wharf, were the gifts of Fru Anna Broms. A complete collection of 

 well-preserved specimens illustrates the marine fauna and enables the 

 stranger to readily identify any of the animals he may find. In a 

 sunny room where the busts of Charles Darwin and Sven Loven face 

 one another, is a working library of 4,500 zoological journals, mono- 

 graphs and shorter papers mainly presented by Professors Theel and 

 Eetzius. Any writings not at hand can be supplied from the library in 

 Stockholm within a few days. The station has an annual income of 

 10,000 crowns, 6,000 from the Eoyal Academy of Science and 4,000 

 from the Swedish government. 



The grounds are fenced from the summer visitors of the neighboring 

 Fiskebackskil and the more fashionable Lysekil on the other side of the 

 entrance to Gullmar fjord. The rules, firmly but courteosly enforced, 

 establish an atmosphere of quiet. Investigators and students are pro- 

 vided with the animals desired, as well as all of the necessary appa- 

 ratus and chemical reagents, and every assistance is most generously 

 extended. Besides the Sven Loven a fleet of sail and row boats is 

 equipped and ready for the work of collecting, or for the observation 

 of the animals in their own environment. The very slight tide makes 



