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INTERNATIONAL ASPECTS OF OCEANOGRAPHY 



Maintenance and operation: 



2 sailors, in charge of fisheries and laboratories. 

 1 porter. 



Provisions for visiting investigators: On request to 

 the director, he puts at the disposal of workers 

 its laboratories, material, and library. Furnishes 

 animals and plants at cost to French and foreign 

 laboratories. Boat at disposal. Finds accommo- 

 dations for workers on larger fisheries boats. 

 Rooms at disposal of visitors for a small sum for 

 .service. 



Income: From La Socidte scientifique d'Arcachon. 



Provision for -publication of results: Bulletin of Station 

 Biologique d'Arcachon. 



Laboratoire de Luc-sur-Mer de la Faculte des 

 Sciences de Caen ('37) 



History or origin: Established 1880. 



Location: Luc-sur-Mer (Calvados). 



Organization to which attached: Small university of 



Caen. State Institution. 

 Equipment: Working library, fishing boat, aquaria 



for marine animals. 

 Staff: Director, M. Mercier, Professor, faculty; 



Sub-Director, M. Audige, Professor, faculty; 



Chief of Laboratory, Me. Le Roux; Assistant, 



M. Guibe. 

 Provisions for visiting investigators: Rooms at the 



disposition of workers. 



Laboratoire de Zoologie et de Physiologie Maritimes 

 du College de France ('37) 



History or origin: Established in 1859 by Coste. 



Location: Concarneau (Finistere). On the sea- 

 front, between the pier and the fish market. 

 Annex on the Cigogne (archipel des Glenans). 



Orga7iization to which attached: College de France. 

 State institution. 



Purposes: Orientation: questions of pure and applied 

 marine biology. 



(Scope of activities: Marine zoology and physiology, 

 chemistry. 



Equipment: Laboratory building, 3 floors, 33 x 9 

 meters. Rooms and apparatus for chemistry, 

 physiology, histology, fishing. Aquarium of sea 

 water and sea-tanks. Collecting apparatus (ap- 

 pareils d'elevage). Motor-, sail-, row-boats. Li- 

 brary and collections. 



Staff: M. Faral, administrator of the College de 

 France. MM. Duclaux, Faur^-Fremiet, Jolly, 

 Mayer, Nageotte, Nattan-Larrier, Pi6ron (Pro- 

 fessors at College de France). Sub-Director, R. 



Legendre. Preparator, H. Bouxin. 2 operation 



workers. 

 Provisions for visiting investigators: Between 20 



and 25. 

 Income: Source: State. 



Amount : About 80,000 francs. 

 Provision for publication of results: Travaux du 



Laboratoire (suspended since the war). 



Laboratoire Maritime (Aquarium et Musee de la 



Mer) du Museum national d'Histoire 



naturelle ('37) 



History or origin: Established in 1924 at Saint 

 Servan, transferred in 1935 to a new locality at 

 Dinard opposite the preceding on the left bank 

 of the Rancc. 



Location: Situated at Dinard (Ille et Vilaine), 17 

 Grande Rue, at the mouth of the Ranee. 



Organization to which attached: The Museum of 

 Natural History, Paris. 



Purposes: Researches in oceanography and marine 

 zoology; zoology, botany (algae), geology, physi- 

 ology, etc. 



Scope of activities: All marine biological sciences 

 and fresh water in general. 



Equipment: Four rooms for one or two workers; 

 one room for five workers; one laboratory for 

 physiological chemistry for three workers; one 

 large room for four workers: In all seven rooms 

 with a library of current literature. One large 

 library containmg periodicals and various treatises, 

 about 3,000 volumes. One sail boat with a 

 motor twenty-six tons, 24 hp. motor; one "scout" 

 and one "you-you," each with a 10 hp. motor, 

 and small boats. 



Staff: Director, M. A. Gruvel, Professor at the 

 Museum; Sub-Director, M. H. Bertrand, D.Sc; 

 Four employees and boatmen. 



Provisions for visiting investigators: The workers are 

 lodged in a beautiful villa adjacent to the labora- 

 tory and situated in a large garden. The villa 

 contains 15 rooms, each for one or two persons. 



Income: Derived from the entrance fees to the 

 aquarium and a subvention from the government. 



Provision for the publication of results: Bulletin du 

 Laboratoire maritime de Dinard which appears 

 irregularly in fascicules contains resumes of the 

 results of persons who work at the laboratory. 



Laboratoire de Guethary ('34) 



History or origin: Established in 1893. 

 Location: Guethary (Basses-Pyr^n^es). 



