MARINE BIOLOGICAL STATION ON PUFFIN ISLAND. 5 



but can be used as a comfortable work room during severe 

 weather, when the outside laboratory (with a stone floor) 

 is too cold, and the wind is in such a direction that the 

 stove cannot be used. The Committee propose that before 

 next summer a simple fixed work-table running in front 

 of the window, and a few shelves, should be put up in 

 this room in order that it may be used regularly as an 

 in -doors laboratory; while four or six wooden bunks 

 erected against the wall in the adjoining room (No. II. 

 in plan, fig. 2) would be a useful addition to the sleeping 

 accommodation. 



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ROOM I. 



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KITCHEN 



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Fig. 2. — Plan of the Biological Station. W. W. windows; C. chimneys. 



Condition of the Sea. 



' During the year, the curator (Mr. Alex. Kutherford) has 

 continued to draw up and forward to Liverpool the weekly 

 reports described last year, containing a careful record of 

 the air and sea temperatures and other physical observa- 

 tions. From these tables it has now become possible to 

 trace the distribution throughout the year, and the 

 relations to temperature, of the remarkable Algae, the 

 appearance of which in such profusion as to cause "foul 

 water," was first described in letters to Nature, in July, 



