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adjoininji; buildings which include lodging quarters, a well- 

 furnished library and a lab()r;itory for elementary students. 

 Surrounding the building" is an attractive garden which gives 

 one anything but a just idea of the barrenness of the soil of 

 Brittany. From the sea wall of the laboratory one looks out 

 over the rocks that are becoming exposed by tlie receding tide. 

 A strong enclosure of masonry serves as a viviej^ to be used for 



Marine Station at Roscoff, Brittany. 

 (From photograph, July, 1S91.) 



experiments as well as to retain water for supplying the 

 laboratory. The students are, in the main, those of the Sor- 

 bonne, and under the direction of Dr. Prouho, their viaitrc dc 

 conferences. They are given every opportunity to take part in 

 the collecting excursions, frequently made in the laboratory's 

 small sailing vessels, among the rocky islands of the neighbor- 

 ing coast. Strangers, too, are not infrequent, and ' are 

 generously granted every privilege of the French student. 



