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director, Prof. Kleinenberg-. The Adriatic, especially favorable for 

 collecting, lias at Istria a small station ou the Dalmatian coast, and at 

 Trieste is the Austrian station. 



V. — TRIESTE. 



Trieste possesses one of the oldest and most honored of marine 

 observatories, although its station is but small in comparison with that 

 of Naples, Plymouth, or Roscoff. Its work has in no small way been 

 limited by scanty income; it has offered tlio investigator fewer 

 advantages and has therefore become outrivallcd. During the greater 

 part of the year it is but little more than the supply station of the 

 University of Vienna, providing fresh material for the students of 

 Prof. Claus. Its perceutage of foreign investigators appears small; its 

 visitors are usually from Vienna and of its university. 



Trieste is, in itself, a small but busy city, growing in active commerce. 

 Its quays are massive and bristle with odd-shaped shipping of the 

 eastern Mediterranean. Its deep and basin-like harbor alfords a col- 

 lecting ground as rich as the Gulf of i^Taples, 



The station has been located at a quiet corner of tlie harbor, just 

 beyond the edge of the light-house. (PI. xxxii, fig. 2.) Its building is 

 somewhat chalet-like, situated on a small, well wooded kindl, as seen in 

 the adjacent figure. About it ar(^ trellis-covered grounds inclosed by 

 high wails, and separated from the harbor only by the main roadway 

 of the quays. One enters the laboratory garden through a large gate- 

 way and passes into a courtyard whose outhouses disclose the i)ails 

 and nets of the marine laboratory. Perhaps an attendant will here be 

 sorting out the rarities which a bronze-legged fisherman has Just 

 brought in. 



A library and the rooms of the director. Dr. Graeffe, are close by the 

 entrance of thebuilding. In the basement is the aijuarium room — some- 

 what dark and cellar-like; its tanks small and shallow, their inmates 

 representing especially stages of Adriatic hydroids and anthozoans. 

 On the second story are the investigator's rooms — large, well lighted, 

 looking out over garden and sea. Near by is a nuiseum of local fauna, 

 rich in crustaceans and in the larval stages of Adriatic fishes. 



VI-IX. — GERMANY, NORWAY, SWEDEN, RUSSIA. 



The German universities have contributed to such a degree to the 

 building up of the station at Naples that they have hitherto been little 

 able to avail themselves of the more convenient but less favorable region 

 of German coasts. The collecting resources of the North Sea and of 

 the Baltic haveperliaps been not sufficiently rich to warrant the estab- 

 lishment of a central station. On the side of the Baltic, the University 

 of Kiel, directly on the coast, may itself be regarded as a marine sta- 

 tion. At present the interest in founding- local marine laboratories has, 

 however, become stronger. The newly acquired Heligoland has become 



