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Opening of the Marine Biological Laboratory. 



The ceremony of opening tlie Laboratory at Plymoutli on 

 Saturday, June 30th, was favoured by magnificent weather, 

 and those who travelled down to Plymouth on that occasion, 

 and saw for the first time the building whicb has been 

 erected on the Citadel Hill, had ample cause to be satisfied 

 with the Laboratory itself and the situation in which it is 

 placed. 



The success of the ceremony was assured when the Fish- 

 mongers' Company undertook to add to their already muni- 

 ficent patronage of the Association by providing a dejeuner 

 for the entertainment of the visitors after the opening of the 

 Laboratory. To their hospitality and kindness much of the 

 success that attended the gathering is due. 



It was unfortunate that from ill-health, pressure of Parlia- 

 mentary work, absence from England, and other causes, many 

 distinguished members of the Association were unavoidably 

 absent from so interesting a gathering. Above alL the 

 absence of Prof, Huxley, the President of the Association, 

 was regretted ; ill-health prevented him from undertaking 

 the fatigue of the long journey, and for the same reason 

 Prof. Moseley, who has taken so active a share in the forma- 

 tion of the Association, and has had a large share in the 

 arrangement and fitting of the Laboratory, was unfortunately 

 unable to be present. Prof. Allman, to his own and his 

 friends' great regret, was unable to undertake the journey, 

 and various causes prevented the Duke of Argyll, the Duke 

 of Abercorn, the Earl of Derby, Lord Walsingham, Sir 

 Edward Birkbeck, the Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, the 

 Right Hon. A. J. Balfour, Sir John Lubbock, Mr. W. S. 

 Caine, and several others, from attending the ceremony. 

 These noblemen and gentlemen have been among the most 



