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ordinary apparatus of the marine laboratory, exchuling microscopes 

 and accessories. Tiie use of tlie larger tanks of the main aquarium 

 is also permitted 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 

 Oi type collections of the British marine fauna. The naturalist of this 

 station has been for a number of years Mr. J. T. Cunningh'am, whose 

 experiments upon the hatching of the sole have here been carried on. 

 Other British marine stations are those of Pufifln Island, Liverpool, 

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

 work of these stations, it is understood, 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 has recently (the latter 

 months of 1893) been established at Jersey, in the Channel Islands. 



Zoological station at St. Helier, Isle of Jersey. 



The foundation of this station has been entirely due to private enter- 

 pi-ise, and its management seems both independent and j)ractical. The 

 proprietors, Messrs. Sinel and Hornell, add to the station's revenue by 

 providing alcoholic material for class work, anatomical preparations, 

 serial sections. They also edit and publish an interesting little (quar- 

 terly, Journal of Marine Zooiogj^ and Microscopy. 



The station will doubtless i^rove a welcome need to the traveling 

 biologist who finds, at a half day's journey from England, a richer 

 fauna than even Plymouth can offer. It is readily open to investi- 

 gators upon payment of a small weekly fee. Of the building and its 

 equipment, a brief description might here be given. It is situated 

 east of St. Helier, at a ten-minute's walk from the town, facing the main 

 road, La Collette, overlooking a picturesque and rugged shore. It is 

 but 18 feet above tidal mark, and at low water, especially at lunar 

 tides, is immediately adjacent to a rich collecting ground. Twelve 

 gqu^^re miles of "zostera prairie" are there exposed, andmay bevisite(i 



