INTRODUCTION 



The committee responsible for compiling the material for this Directory placed prime im- 

 portance on its usefulness to research scholars and students of aquatic biology. Accordingly, 

 aside from listing the executive officer and address for each station, the matter of working 

 space for guest scientists, costs for such space, and opportunities to live at or near the labora- 

 tory were investigated and reported. Likewise helpful to prospective guest workers is general 

 information on facilities, including library holdings and vessels, and a knowledge of areas of 

 specialization of the laboratory. These data are included along with a listing, where it was 

 available, of the more easily collected organisms which would be available to persons wish- 

 ing to engage in experimental work using living specimens. 



Descriptions of institutions are arranged in alphabetical order by country, except in those 

 instances where a parent organization sponsors several laboratories, for example, the United 

 States Fish and Wildlife Service or the Institut Scientifique et Technique des Peches Maritimes, 

 in which cases the laboratories are listed alphabetically under the parent institution which, in 

 turn, is listed alphabetically under a country. 



Laboratories with distinctive names are indexed separately, as well as cross-indexed with 

 their sponsoring institution. Laboratories without distinctive names are indexed under their 

 sponsoring agency only. All institutions are indexed in English, and usually also indexed in 

 the language of the country involved. 



Information on institutions of the USSR was secured from the USSR Academy of Sci- 

 ences, UNESCO, and FAO. In no case was the information as complete as from those insti- 

 tutions which returned the committee's questionnaire directly, and in many instances only the 

 name and address of the institution were given. However, for Soviet oceanographic institutes 

 the name and address was supplemented by the date founded, types of scientific activity and 

 titles of publications issued. Very scant information on institutions of the Peoples Republic 

 of China was available through FAO and LINESCO. 



A section on museums has been included at the back of the Directory. No attempt has been 

 made to treat museums comprehensively, as this would be beyond the scope of this volume. 

 However, many museums are devoted extensively to aquatic biology, mostly from a taxonomic 

 standpoint, but not exclusively so. A few of these institutions for which we had information 

 about aquatic activities are listed in the Directory. 



