26 MADRAS FISHERIES BULLETIN VOL. XIV, 



Government through the Education Department. There are three 

 public stations, Drobak, Bergen and Trondhjem. The first is in 

 reality a branch of the University of Christiania, 28 miles away. 

 The second is intimately connected with the Bergen Museum, the 

 Director being appointed by the Committee of Management of the 

 Museum, while the third is practically independent and is not 

 affiliated with any educational institution. 



The station at Bergen is particularly interesting because of its 

 history and organization. The funds for its establishment were 

 derived in the main from the profits of the State liquor business, 

 the Braendevinssamlag, since abolished, supplemented by generous 

 donations from the citizens and public bodies of Bergen. A site 

 for the building was found in a private park and the Museum 

 undertook the organization and management of the station. The 

 Museum itself is primarily operated by a society aided financially 

 by the Bergen municipality and to a still greater extent by Govern- 

 ment. Its management vests in a Governing Committee, whereof 

 three members are appointed by the parent society, three by the 

 Bergen municipality, and three by the Government, the Director 

 of the Museum forming ex-qfficio the tenth. The society, aided by 

 private donations, has been able to furnish most of the funds for 

 the erection of the building. Government meeting the major portion 

 of the annual expenditure. 



This biological station has no official connexion with the 

 Fisheries Department and economic reasons have had little to do 

 with its inception and management; its aims professedly are 

 primarily and solely pure research. But through the genius of its 

 gifted Director, the physicist Helland Hensen, it has done more 

 than any other agency in Norway to promote the advance of our 

 knowledge of oceanography. In this subject it has specialized 

 and its vacation courses of instruction in this subject have been 

 particularly useful, and highly appreciated. 



The Trondhjem Station is equally well equipped for biological 

 investigation and unlike the other two stations, it links up directly 

 with the Fisheries Department by accepting a subsidy of Kr. 4,000 

 to cover the expenses connected with the upkeep and operation of 

 a plaice hatchery. 



When I visited the station last year, I had the good fortune to 

 be able to inspect the handsome new research vessel, the Giinerus, 

 built specially for biological investigation. Dr. O. Nordgaard, the 



