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On the starboard side of the laboratory is a bench and a sink, and drawers are fitted 

 beneath the bench. The sink is supplied with hot and cold fresh water and cold salt 

 water, and near the taps there is a vacuum connection from the engine room. The short 

 section of bench forward of the sink is lead covered and has a drying rack above ; aft of 

 the sink it is of teak and is continued to the entrance from the biological laboratory. On 

 it, near the sink, is stowed a 5-gallon copper container for distilled water, and a second 

 similar container is stowed on a bracket on the outboard bulkhead abaft the bench. 



On the port side of the hydrological laboratory there is another bench with a tier of 

 drawers below it and some space for stowing boxes of water sample bottles. The bench 



Fig. 2. Plan of biological and hydrological laboratories, c, cupboard under bench, d, drawers under bench. 

 /, hinged flap of bench. /, bracket lamp. ;•, radiators, i, sinks. /, formalin tanks over bench, a', receiver for 

 waste spirit under bench. 



top is fitted with racks for the comparator tubes used in estimations of the phosphate, 

 silicate and nitrate content of sea water. Along the after end of the laboratory is a large 

 cupboard for the storage of chemicals with a fiddle on top for small Winchester bottles 

 and other stores. Book shelves run along the port side above the windows. 



In both laboratories there are numerous minor fittings which occupy most of the wall 

 space. They include racks for burettes, pipettes, measuring cylinders, Petri dishes, glass 

 bowls, labels, tubes and reagents. Three small gimbal tables suitable for holding open 

 Petri dishes are swung on brackets from the bulkheads over the benches, and each 

 working place has before it a rack for receiving large numbers of specimen tubes. In the 



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