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one, between it and the public road. This building we rented for a 

 laboratory (Fig. 16) ; it had been divided up by light partitions into 

 several rooms, and proved to be fairly well adapted to our needs. The 

 laboratories were furnished with substantial work tables, having ebonized 

 tops and banks of drawers. A library of specially selected books and 

 pamphlets from the libraries of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 

 the Boston Society of Natural History, and the writer, several hun- 

 dred in number, was arranged in the largest workroom. An ample 

 supply of glassware, reagents and preservatives, dissecting lenses, 

 microtomes, paraffin imbedding appliances and all the other usual 

 equipment of a zoological laboratory were provided, as well as the 

 necessary appliances for collecting, such as dredges, nets, seines, tubs, 



Fig. 15. View of ' Wistowe' and the Inlet from the Piazza of Hotel 'Frascati.' 



buckets, sieves, water glasses, et cetera, so that few wants were felt in 

 this direction by any of the party. The number of students was, 

 however, so large that the laboratory building was inadequate for the 

 accommodation of all. When the second party arrived, therefore, 

 a large ground-floor room in one of the stone buildings of the hotel 

 was fitted up with portable tables for those who had less need of ap- 

 pliances for microscopic work. 



Very satisfactory means of transportation to collecting grounds, 

 both by land and by water, were provided. For places not readily 

 accessible by boats, wagonettes and carriages were furnished, and those 

 who collected land plants made much use of them. Several persons 

 had brought with them their bicycles and thus were less dependent on 



