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INTERNATIONAL ASPECTS OF OCEANOGRAPHY 



sum exceeding £16,000 was spent on additional 

 buildings. A general description of the buildings 

 was published by Doctor E. J. Allen in Marine 

 Biological Association Journal, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 

 735-828, November, 1928. Subsequent to 1928 

 the buildings were enlarged by the addition of 

 several rooms. On the ground floor, a library 

 room, two work rooms, photographic room, and a 

 physiological laboratory were added. On the 

 first floor a balance room, two small laboratories, 

 and a large chemical laboratory were added. 

 The description published by Dr. Allen needs to 

 be supplemented by the additional buildings 

 mentioned in the foregoing sentences. 



Location: Plymouth on the sea front of Citadel Hill. 



Organization to which attached: The Marine Biological 

 Association of the United Kingdom. 



Purposes: All kinds of biological research, with 

 special attention to several fisheries problems, 

 the study of hydrographic conditions in the 

 adjacent waters of the English Channel, the 

 provision of facilities for visiting investigators, 

 and the conduct of Easter and Autumn classes 

 for students. 



Scope of activities: Since the Marine Biological 

 Laboratory in Plymouth has been in continuous 

 operation since 1888, it would reasonably be 

 expected that there might be some change in the 

 program and the emphasis which has been placed 

 on difTerent kinds of problems during the forty- 

 five years of the existence of the Laboratory. 

 The scope of the investigations at the Institution 

 is indicated by the designations after the names 

 of the members of the staff as given below. A 

 wide variety of the problems of the physiology 

 of marine organisms and the interrelation between 

 the organisms and the marine environment are 

 being investigated. Several of the investigators 

 are concerned with the life histories of marine 

 organisms, others are studying special fisheries 

 problems. The Laboratory also pays particular 

 attention to hydrography and to the chemistry 

 of sea-water as related to marine organisms and 

 other phenomena. It supplies specimens of 

 marine animals and plants for biological research 

 and teaching purposes. 



Equipment: The original building contained a gen- 

 eral laboratory with cubicles and a series of small 

 aquaria for the use of the staff or visiting investi- 

 gators; and the aquarium on the ground floor 

 which is opened to the public; an extensive 

 library of biological publications which includes 



the leading biological and biochemical journals; 

 a residence for the director; four or five small 

 laboratories; and an office and living quarters for 

 the engineer-caretaker. Subsequently an addi- 

 tional building known as the Allen building, 24 

 feet by 24 feet in dimension, divided into two 

 laboratories by a temporary partition was added. 

 Later a second story was added to this building 

 and the whole was converted into a library. At a 

 still later date there was added a new wing in 

 which there is a well-equipped chemical laboratory 

 and a large and varied stock of chemicals, and 

 well-equipped physiological and fisheries labora- 

 tories. On the ground floor there is an aquarium 

 or tank room which measures 70 feet by 24^ feet. 

 There is a detached building for the vacation 

 courses with accommodation for twenty students. 

 The Laboratory owns a wooden steam drifter, 

 the Salpa, which is 88 feet long, 19.9 foot beam 

 and draws 10.5 feet aft and 5 feet forward, and is 

 capable of a speed of QJ knots. She is equipped 

 with a winch for trawling and a small deck-house 

 laboratory. The Laboratory also owns the 

 motor boat Gammarus which is 25 feet long, 

 eight-foot beam, a draught of 2 feet 9 inches. 



The library contains a valuable collection of 

 scientific books, periodicals, and reports of all 

 countries relating to fish and fisheries, the collec- 

 tion in this respect being one of the most complete 

 in the country. The more important zoological 

 journals are well represented, as well as the 

 reports of the various oceanographical expeditions, 

 and there are a large number of separate papers on 

 general marine biology. A collection of modern 

 books and journals dealing with general physiology 

 has also been added. Members of the Association 

 have access to the library. 

 Staff: Director, Stanley Kemp, Sc.D., F.R.S. 



Assistant Director and Fishery Naturalist, E. 



Ford, A.R.C.Sc. 

 Head of Department, General Physiology, W. R. 



G. Atkins, O.B.E., Sc.D., F.I.C., F.Inst.P., 



F.R.S. 

 Naturalist, Miss M. V. Lebour, D.Sc, Plankton 



and larval stages of bottom fauna. 

 Hydrographer, H. W. Harvey, M.A. 

 Naturalist, F. S. Russell, D.S.C., D.F.C., B.A., 



Plankton and young fishes. 

 Physiologist, A. Sand, Ph.D. 

 Naturalist, D. P. Wilson, M.Sc, Polychaete larvae 



and shore fauna. 



