2 20 BIOLOGICAL LECTURES. 



its temporary building is being replaced by one of stone, 

 which will enable Professor Sabatier to add in no little way to 

 the working facilities of his students. The region, in every 

 essential regard, is similar to that of Banyuls. 



The station at Marseilles is devoted in great part to ques- 

 tions relating to the Mediterranean fisheries, and owes, in a 

 measure, its financial support to this practical work. 



The station at Ville-Franche is essentially Russian. An 

 account of this with figures has recently been published 

 (Russian text) in Cracow. The station itself is well known 

 through the work of Dr. Bolles Lee, and it is here that 

 Professor Carl Vo2:t has been a constant visitor. 



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II. — England. 



The laboratory at Pl)niouth is quite a recent one, its 

 foundation due in the first instance to the efforts of Professor 

 Rav Lankester. Its building, first opened in 1888, is. in many 

 regards, hardly second to Najiles. This locality was found 

 well-suited for the needs of an extensive marine station. 

 Opposite Brittany it takes advantage of the same extremes of 

 tide, and the rockv Devonshire coast affords one of the richest 

 collecting grounds. The situation of the building is a remark- 

 able one; it stands at one end (^f the ancient Hoe of Plymouth 

 — a broad, k-x-el jiark whose high situation looks far c^ff over 

 the channel. At the rear (^f the building are the old fortifica- 

 tions of the town. As shown in the adjoining figure, tlie 

 building is, at the ends, three-storied. On the ground fioor is 

 the general aquarium room, well-suiijilied wilh local marine 

 fauna, and open to the jiublic. The laboratory proper is u]ion 

 the second fioor, di\-ided into eleven compartments, the work 

 places of the students. A series of small tanks i)asses tlown 

 the middle of the room. In the western end are the library, 

 the museum, the chemical, photogra]-)hic. ami physiological 

 rooms : in the eastern are tlie living c|uartei"s of the director. 

 The water supi)ly of the laboratory is contained in two small 

 reservoirs directly between tlie buililing and the fortifications, 

 and is carried throughout the building by gas engines. Tidal 



