MARINE ZOOLOGICAL STATION 



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The station is primarily under the direction of Professor Theel as 

 Prefect, while director Dr. Hjalmar Ostergren is the very efficient ad- 

 ministrator of affairs. Under such leadership one may feel confident 

 that the dream of Loven and Theel will he fulfilled and that here in 

 Kristineberg, as at Naples, will evolve a great station, not alone for 

 work in marine zoology but as well for the investigation of allied prob- 

 lems in botany, chemistry, hydrography and meteorology. Thus Kris- 

 tineberg is a link in the chain of the more than fifty world encircling 

 marine biological stations. Here and in Bergen, Kiel, Plymouth, Eos- 

 coff, Banyuls-sur-Mer, Villefrance, Trieste, Naples, Batavia, Misaki, 

 San Diego, Pacific Grove, Cold Spring Harbor. Woods Holl, and the 

 other sea-side stations, as well as upon the vessels designed as floating 

 laboratories, investigators are solving the mysteries of life in the sea, 

 the primaeval birth-place of life itself. 



A Group of Investigators and Students. 



One is reminded that it is the land of the midnight sun by the 

 twilight lasting until after ten o'clock and the break of dawn at three, 

 when the gulls awaken us with a chorus of hoarse cries like those of 

 migrating geese. One of their number is the laboratory pet. It was 

 taken, as Director Ostergren naively remarked, " When the parting 

 from its parents was without pain,"' and reared with no fear of man. 

 It is of adult size and strong enough to fly over land or water wherever 

 it pleases. When hungry, and that is most of the time, it sounds a 

 shrill whistle, throwing its head up and down, until a fish is offered, 

 when it comes to one's hand to be fed. But gradually the racial instinct 

 has been asserted until, at the last, the gull follows the call of the wild 



