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in breadth, and about nine feet from the deck to the outside of the bot- 
tom planking, that is, in vertical depth. It provides a narrow platform 
round the sides of the building, and a spacious platform at each end, six 
and a-half feet in width. A small double-acting brass deck-pump 
placed on the platform at the front entrance is connected by hose pipe 
with the fresh-water tank, and supplies the porcelain wash-basins, one 
of which is provided at each worker’s table. Near the location selected, 
at some little distance from the station, and adjacent to the sea shore, 
a salt-water pump, with a Rider hot-air engine, 6 in. cylinder, are 
placed, and connection is made by a pipe with a spacious salt-water 
tank on the roof of the building at the anterior end. From this tank 
a delivery tube, one inch in diameter, of galvanized iron, passes close to 
the skylight into the interior of the station, immediately under the hori- 
zontal cross beams of the roof, giving off lateral branch tubes, five on 
each side, and supplying the salt water by special nozzles to the respec- 
tive porcelain basins used by each worker. From this delivery tube, 
temporary tanks can be supplied as required, and the final outflow 
empties into the salt-water tank in the tank-room next to the chemical 
room, at the rear end of the station. Along each side of the laboratory, 
under the workers’ tables, a convenient drain carries away waste water, 
and has its exit beneath the laboratory. The station possesses a gaso- 
line launch, 22 ft. long, fitted with a Sintz engine, intended to be used 
for conveying the workers conveniently to points within easy reach. It 
was originally planned that this launch, which is 24 h.p., should be 
utilized for bottom dredging, and for surface or mid-water tow netting 
with capacious “ plankton ” and other nets; but it has proved to be not 
well adapted for that work, on account of its insufficient power. <A 
handy little row-boat was also purchased for the use of the staff. The 
equipment of the station includes a number of dredges of various sizes, 
a drag seine 60 ft. long, two large triangular nets after the Scottish 
model, designed by Professor McIntosh, a beam trawl 15 ft. across, and 
a number of fine silk and cheese-cloth tow-nets and dip nets. In addi- 
tion to a number of Agassiz store-tanks, a series of copper store-tanks 
of various sizes have been procured. 
While there is, of course, much to be added to the equipment, 
many of the workers have expressed themselves as well pleased with 
the provision in the way of nets and other necessary apparatus; but the 
desirability of the purchase of a tug or launch of some power, for deep 
sea dredging, has pressed itself upon the attention of the Board. It is 
to be hoped that at an early date a suitable vessel will be secured. 
The superior advantages of a movable building over one perman- 
ently fixed, are readily seen, as a floating station can be towed from one 
