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vides material for investigation and the ordinary apparatus of 

 tiie marine laboratory, excluding microscopes and accessories. 

 The use of the larger tanks of the main aquarium is also per- 

 mitted to the working student. The work of the laboratory 

 includes investigation of fishery matters, the preservation of 

 animals to supply the classes of zoology in the universities 

 and the formation of type collections of the British marine 

 fauna. The naturalist of this station has been, for a number 

 of years, Mr. J. T. Cunningham, whose experiments upon the 

 hatching of the Sole have here been carried on. 



Other British marine stations are those of Liverpool and St. 

 Andrews, northeast, and Dunbar, southeast, of Edinburgh. 

 The work of these stations is only in part purely biological ; 

 the practical matters of fisheries must be considered to insure 

 financial support. In addition to these is to be mentioned a 

 station, recently equipped, on the Isle of Man. Still another, 

 most favorable in its locality, has been established in the 

 Channel Isands. 



At St. Andrews, Professor Macintosh has studied the ques- 

 tions relating to the hatching and development of the North 

 Sea fishes. Its situation upon the promontory leading into 

 the Firth of Forth seems to have been especially favorable 

 for the study of the North Sea fauna — the locality, moreover, 

 is far enoutrh northward to include a numer of boreal forms. 

 The importance of St. Andrews is at length better recognized, 

 and a substantial grant from the government will enable a 

 large and permanent marine station to be here constructed. 

 The facilities for work have, up to the present time, been 

 somewhat primitive, — a simple wooden building, single-storied, 

 has been partitioned off into small rooms, a general laboratory, 

 with work places for half a dozen investigators, a director's 

 room, aquarium, and a small out-lying engine house witli 

 storage tanks. To the laboratory belongs a small sail-boat to 

 assist in the work of collecting. 



