THE AQUARIUM, OCTOBER, 1895. 



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fish is very attractive, but one could 

 see that the low temperature of the 

 water was not exactly to its taste. 



In the same building upstairs and 

 also over the hatchery is the biological 

 laboratory. Here it is where the spec- 

 ialists make their investigations. There 

 is one large room where several students 

 are at work, and a number of small 

 private laboratories for exclusive use 

 for professors or instructors in colleges 

 and academies. Here, too, one meets 



work with the scalpel and their micro- 

 scope. One studying the nervous sys- 

 tem of the spider crab, the other that 

 of the jellyfisli, while most of them 

 were dissecting young dogfishes. Live 

 and prepared material of the various 

 forms of marine life were in great 

 abundance on hand. The former was 

 kept in small aquariums in running 

 sea water. 



A little below the two main buildings 

 the botanical section is located. Here 



The Striped Remora. 



rectangular aquariums and vessels of 

 any shape, all supplied with small 

 streams of running sea water and con- 

 taining all kinds of living material. 



This laboratory soon proved too 

 small, and through the generosity of 

 some Bostonian a second laboratory, 

 entirely independent from the one 

 mentioned above, was erected. This 

 school, known as the Marine Laboratory, 

 is situated only a few hundred steps from 

 the U. S. Fish Commission Station. It 

 consists of several spacious two-story 

 buildings, built for this purpose only. 



It was our good fortune to meet, 

 among the students, some charming 

 friends of ours, who delighted to escort 

 us through the various departments. 



We found the students all busy at 



the various marine alga?, of which the 

 New England coast is so well supplied, 

 are studied. Beautiful specimens of 

 various colors and tints were kept alive 

 in sea water, while others that had 

 been pressed and dried to be used for 

 reference were kept in portfolios. 



The number of biological students 

 who did practical work at the Woods' 

 Holl Laboratory this summer exceeds 

 two hundred. Ladies and gentlemen 

 were about equal in number. 



Another biological laboratory is 

 located at Cold Spring Harbor on Long 

 Island. This school is under the 

 direction of the Brooklyn Institute of 

 Arts and Sciences. It is yet new. 

 Work here includes fresh water biology 

 as well as marine. 



