BY N. DE MIKL0UH0-MACLAY. 175 



pleasant, owing to his extensive knowledge of different branches 

 of science, and his wide experience as a traveller. 



When I received in May, 1880, in Thursday Island, a letter 

 from my friend, Mr. "William Haswell, informing me that the 

 Zoological Station in Sydney was not established, I determined 

 not to leave Australia before the scheme had been carried out. 

 Detained in Queensland by the work already referred to, I only 

 arrived in Sydney in January of this year, and now, after a stay 

 of one month, I have the pleasure to announce that I have every 

 reason to believe that the Zoological Station at Watson's Bay will 

 be opened in a short time. My stay in Brisbane has once more 

 caused me to feel the necessity of such an institution for the biologist. 

 I could expatiate at length on the advantages of a Zoological 

 Station, but I content myself with remarking that, in spite of my 

 great dislike to waste my time, I was obliged to spend many days, 

 even weeks, in Brisbane and Sydney without the possibility of 

 working, on account of the want of a suitable place. (Here I 

 must express my thanks to Sir Henry Parkes for placing at my 

 disposal the cottage in the Exhibition Ground — one of the present 

 " temporary Zoological Stations.") 



I repeat again my conviction, grounded on long experience, 

 that " the immediate need is not of apparatus or libraries, but of 

 a place for undisturbed work."* I hope to be able, not later 

 than in two months, to work in the Zoological Station in Watson's 

 Bay. I am convinced that many men of science will avail them- 

 selves of it in future years ; and I am satisfied to leave for future 

 generations such a memento of my stay in Sydney as the fast 

 Zoological Station in Australia. 



*Vide " Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South "Wales," '26th 

 August, 1871. 



