134 D. J. SCOURFIELD <>X FRESH-WATER BIOLOGICAL STATIONS. 



Yet another fresh-water station is the Montana Biological 

 Station at Flathead Lake, founded in 1899 by Prof. M. J. Elrod. 



In addition to these special stations, the Zoological Laboratory 

 of the University of Wisconsin, under the care of Prof. Birge, 

 must be classed as a fresh-water biological station for all practical 

 purposes, both from its fortunate position on the shores of Lake 

 Mendota, and from the valuable researches carried out there on 

 the plankton of the lake. 



Altogether there seems little doubt that the fresh-water 

 1 tiological station has a great future before it in the United States. 

 At present, however, it seems to be looked upon in that country too 

 much as a biological training college for its higher possibilities to 

 be fully realised. 



In England, proposals for the founding of a fresh-water 

 biological station were made in 1895 and 1896, but nothing 

 practical was done in the matter until 1902, when Mr. Eustace 

 Gurney established the Sutton Broad Laboratory in Norfolk. 

 This station was erected, and is still maintained, entirely at 

 Mr. Gurney's expense. Although it is a private laboratory, the 

 founder wishes to make it available to workers in any branch of 

 fresh-water biology as far as the limited accommodation permits. 

 When the existence of this w r ell-equipped little station (which is 

 under the direction of Mr. F. Balfour Browne, M.A.), is more 

 widely known, it is to be hoped that it will afford many biologists 

 an opportunity of carrying out special researches on the wonder- 

 fully varied, and in some respects unique, fauna and flora of one 

 of the most interesting districts in the British Isles. The 

 "Broads" of Norfolk are already famous in many ways, and 

 deservedly so ; they can now boast of the additional attraction, 

 to the biologist at least, of the first British fresh-water biological 

 station. 



The work done at the Sutton Broad Laboratory has hitherto 

 necessarily been largely of a preliminary character, and only two 

 papers containing results of investigations * have so far been 

 published ; but several more, dealing with aquatic Coleoptera, 



•'The Fresh- and Brackish- water Crustacea of East Norfolk," by 

 II. Gurney; -A I'-ionomical Investigation of the Norfolk Broads," by 

 P. B. Browne. Both published in the Trans. Norfolk and Norwich 

 Naturalists' Society, vol. vii., part 5, 1904. A short illustrated account 

 of the laboratory is also contained in the same publication. 



