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of students. We do, in a sense, through the aquarium 

 convey information to all visitors who enter the building, 

 and through our Reports to all who read them. But 

 much more use might be made of our institution, even on 

 its present small scale, and there is scarcely a limit to the 

 uses to which it might be put if re-built on a larger scale 

 and adequately equipped. AVhen one thinks of the hun- 

 dreds of school teachers and students of arts and theology 

 who, in America, flock to the Marine Biological Stations 

 during the summer vacation, in order that they may have 

 the opportunity of becoming acquainted with biological 

 thoughts and methods, and of studying under expert 

 guidance the facts and ways of living Nature, one cannot 

 but be struck by the contrast here ; and one is led to 

 wonder how long it will be before the elements of nature- 

 knowledge are recognised as an essential part of a liberal 

 education. 



It is evident to some of us, from experience of and 

 conversations with school teachers, that the demand for 

 vacation work at Biological Stations is with us — it is the 

 means of satisfying the demand that is absent. The 

 immense success of the movement in America {e.g., at the 

 AYoods Holl Biological Station, Massachusetts) not only 

 justifies but requires us to urge its adoption here. If any 

 Technical Instruction Committee, or other educational 

 body (or individual), will build me a new biological station 

 from my plans, within reasonable distance of Liverpool, 

 and containing a laboratory in which, say 30, students can 

 carry on work, I will undertake to admit school teachers 

 free, and teach them in a free vacation class, and I feel 

 sure, from some experience I have had, that the room 

 would always be full, and that the students would find 

 they were spending not merely an instructive, but also a 

 most enjoyable vacation — learning new things every day, 



