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INTERNATIONAL ASPECTS OF OCEANOGRAPHY 



Station Biologique de Roscoff (Laboratoire Lacaze 



Duthiers) ('37) 



History or origin: Established in 1871 by H. Lacaze- 

 Dutliiers and enlarged by his successor Yves 

 Delage in 1909. More recently, in 1930, new 

 additions to grounds and real estate have doubled 

 the area of the station which is now about 60 ares. 



Location: Roscoff (Finistere). 



Organization to which attached: Attached adminis- 

 tratively to the Faculty of Sciences of the Uni- 

 versity of Paris. With the Laboratoire Arago 

 de Banyuls sur Mer it constitutes the National 

 Institute of Marine Biology of the University of 

 Paris. Each of these laboratories is autonomous 

 and has its own director and its own budget. 



Purposes: All researches relative to marine biology 

 in the most general sense; also instruction of 

 students. 



Scope of activities: Laboratories fitted for researches 

 in zoology, parasitology, botany, algology, his- 

 tology, embryology, physiology, bacteriology, 

 physics, and biological chemistry; also laboratories 

 for instruction. 



Equipment: 25 large stalls for investigators; 10 

 small stalls for beginners in research; laboratory 

 of physiology; stalls for physics and chemistry; 

 dark-rooms for photography; sea water, fresh 

 water, gas, and electric current everywhere; 

 vacuum in the rooms for physiology, physics, 

 and chemistry; aquarium room with 2 large basins 

 and 47 stalls assigned to investigators; library, 

 2,000 volumes, 5,000 brochures and reprints, 70 

 periodicals, altogether about 10,000 volumes; 

 lodging, 40 rooms in which 50 people can be 

 accommodated. Boats: Dxjndee with a motor, 

 18 tons, 10.5 m long, power 30 c.v.; gasoline boat, 

 4 m; small boats. Automobile, 1 omnibus, 14 

 c.v., 17 seats and 1 conveyance, 16 c.v., 7 seats, 

 with an effective range of 100 kil. around Roscoff; 

 blacksmith shop, mechanical shop, locksmith 

 shop, carpenter shop. 



Staff: Director, Charles Perez, Professor of Zoology 

 at the Faculty of Sciences of Paris, Member of the 

 Academy of Sciences. Sub-director, Georges 

 Teissier, Chief of Investigations at the Faculty of 

 Sciences of Paris. Assistant, Marcel H^rubel. 

 Assistant prcparator, Pierre Manigault. Sub- 

 ordinate personnel : 5 marines (seamen, fishermen) ; 

 1 porter. 



Provisiofis for visiting investigators: Tables may be 

 rented by governments, academies, universities, 

 or other oSicial foreign organizations or institu- 



tions. Requests should be addressed to the 

 Director, M. Charles Perez, 1, Rue Victor Cousin, 

 Paris 5. 

 Income: Sources: Budget from the Faculty of 



Sciences of the University of Paris, rent for 



tables, special donations. 

 Amount: About 250,000 francs per annum. 

 Provision for publication of results: Travaux de la 

 Station Biologique de RoscoiT; Memoirs or mono- 

 graphs published singly, since 1923. "Les Presses 

 Universitaires de France," Paris. The investiga- 

 tors are free to publish their results in periodicals 

 of their own choosing. 



Station Biologique de Sete ('34) 



History or origin: Established in 1896. Founded 

 by the University of Montpellier by means of 

 state and regional contributions. 



Location: Sete, Herault (the spelling "Sete" is the 

 new official spelling for Cette). 



Organization to which attached: The Institute of 

 Zoology and of General Biology of the University 

 of Montpellier and Ecole pratique des Hautes 

 Etudes, Paris. 



Purposes: Biological investigations, as stated below. 



Scope of activities: The biological study of the fauna 

 and flora of the shore, the sea, the salt lakes, the 

 salt marshes, and the fresh waters of Bas-Langue- 

 doc; experimental researches; the site of the 

 Laboratory of the Biology of the Protista of the 

 Ecole des Hautes Etudes, Paris. 



Equipment: 2 buildings. Of these the principal one 

 contains research laboratories, 10 rooms, of which 

 8 are individual and 2 for groups; 1 room for 

 practical instruction; 1 room for collections; a 

 library; 2 rooms for a public aquarium; local 

 quarters for investigators. 



The second building is an annex in which there 

 are a workshop, experimental aquaria, machines, 

 hangar, garage, special experimental equipment 

 for the culture of microorganisms and small 

 metazoa. 



A landing for a power boat 8 meters long 

 Fishing gear. 



Marine material is supplied by the important 

 fishing fleet of Sete. 



Staff: Director, Professor E. Chatton of the Univer- 

 sity of Montpellier. Assistants: M"" B. Biecheler, 

 Dr. Meyrueis, M"" Brachon. Technical and 

 clerical: 1. Maintenance and operation: 2. 



Provisions for visiting investigators: Workers are 

 lodged at the station, fed at their own expense by 



