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men that took pait in these expeditions were Hj. Theel, who was on 

 all three, C. BovaUius, F. Trybom, C. Forsstrand and J. Brattstrom. 

 The expeditions, which started from the station of Kristineberg, were 

 richly supplied with apparatus from the naval station of Karlskrona, 

 and at their close all this was handed over to the zoological station. 



The buildings belonging to the station are the following. On the 

 right-hand side of Plate XX. one sees the dwelling-house, a long 

 building of rough-hewn timber and boards, facing north-east. On the 

 ground-floor are the large sitting-room, smaller dining-room, one 

 small and two large bed-rooms, kitchen, and servants' bed-room. The 

 upper storey consists of five bedrooms opening upon the large top- 

 landing that is characteristic of Swedish houses. An uncovered 

 verandah stretches along the front of the house, and on it one drinks 

 one's coffee after dinner and admires the extensive view over the 

 Gullmar-fjord. Board and lodging can here be offered to nine or ten 

 people at once, and for it one pays two kronor (2s. 3d.) a day. The 

 house on the left-hand side of Plate XX. is the so-called Villa, the 

 residence of the director, with three rooms, a kitchen, and a glass- 

 covered verandah on the ground-floor, and two attic rooms above. 

 Behind it are seen the necessary outhouses. To the right of it 

 is seen a cottage, containing a workshop and a mangle-room. The 

 wooden boathouse, not shown in the Plate, is down by the water's edge 

 on the right ; in it the dredges are stored, and rough work carried on. 



The laboratory building and its adjoining water-tower were not 

 completed till 1884. The main building, which is seen in the middle 

 of Plate XX., of two storeys and built of wood, is 18 metres long and 

 10 wide. It has one entrance at the east end and one in the middle 

 of the south or landward side. All the inner walls are panelled and 

 varnished. The floors of the lower storey are soaked with tar and 

 linseed oil, while those of the upper are varnished and somewhat 

 noisy to walk on. A notice on the south entrance informs the 

 would-be intruder that this door is only for workers. The east 

 entrance, however, is at certain times open to the public. We enter 

 through a lobby (O E in Fig. 2) up a short staircase directly into the 

 large so-called " washing-room, skdljriimmet," 10.5m. by 6.3m. (S in 

 Fig. 2). On its north side are three windows, in front of which runs 

 a broad platform, on which are placed five aquaria (a, a, a), each con- 

 taining 175 litres. This platform is made of strips of planking, 

 between which rubbish can fall down onto the underlying rock and 

 be washed into the sea. Immediately under the windows a long 

 table (vb), fastened to the wall, runs the whole length of the room. It 

 is used for the coarser dissections, for picking out animals from the 

 seaweed and so forth brought in by the dredgers, and for spreading 

 out masses of clay, which are left untouched during the night so that 

 the animals living therein may crawl to the surface. Between two of 

 the windows is fitted a washing apparatus for sifting the clay and 

 discovering the small and often microscopic animals that inhabit it. 



