508 THE MARINE BIOLOGICAL STATIONS OF EUROPE. 



a large glass walled aquaiium room, seen in the a('eoiiii)aiiyiiig ligure, 

 while on the other oj)ens directly to adjoining buildings, which include 

 lodging quarters, a Avell-furnished library, and a laboratory for ele- 

 mentary 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 w^all of the laboratory one looks out over 

 the rocks that are becoming exposed by the receding tide. A strong 

 iuclosure of masonry serves as a vlvier to be used for experiments as 

 well as to retain water for supi^lying the laboratory. The students 

 are, in the main, those of the Sorbonue, and under the direction of Dr. 

 Prouho, their maitre dc conferences. They are given every oppor- 

 tunity to take part in the collecting excursions, frequently made in 

 the laboratory's small sailing vessels, among the rocky islands of the 

 neighboring coast. Strangers, too, are not infrequent, and are gen- 

 erously granted every privilege of the French student. Liberality is 

 one of the characteristic features of Eoscoft'. The stranger who writes 

 to Prof, de Lacaze-Duthiers is accorded a work place which entitles 

 him gratuitously to every privilege of the laboratory — his microscope, 

 his reagents, even his lodging-room should a place be vacant. It 

 seems, in fact, to be a point of pride with Prof. Lacaze that the stranger 

 shall be welcomed to Eoscoff, and upon entering the laboratory for the 

 lirst time, feel entirely at home. He linds his table in order, his 

 microscope awaiting him, and the material for which he had written 

 displayed in stately array in the glass jars and dishes of his Avork 

 place. So, too, he may have been assigned one of the large aquaria in 

 the glass aquarium room — massive stone-base stands, aerated by a 

 constant jet of sea water. He finds a surprising wealth of material at 

 Roscofi', and his wants are promptly supplied. 



At Banyuls(Pl.xxvii),the second station of the Sorbonue, the build- 

 ings are less imposing than those of Roscoff. It is a i^lain, three-story 

 building facing the north, at the edge of the promontory which shelters 

 the harbor at Banyuls. The virier is in front of the station, behind is 

 a reservoir cut in the solid rock, receiving the waters of the Mediterra- 

 nean and distributing it throughout the building. On the first floor is 

 a large aquarium room lighted by electricity, well supplied with tanks 

 and decorated not a little with statuary donated by the administration 

 of the beaux-arts. The bust of Arago occupies an important place, as 

 the laboratory has been named in his honor. A suit of a diver sug- 

 gests the different tactics in collecting made necessary by the slightly- 

 falling tides of the Mediterranean. The wealth of living forms in the 

 aquaria shows at once by variety of bright colors the richness of south- 

 ern fauna. Sea lilies are in i)rofusion, and are gathered at the very 

 steps of the laboratory. The work rooms of the students are on the 

 second floor, equipped in a manner similar to those of Roscofl". The 

 directer of this station is Dr. Frederic Guitel. It is usual during the 



