CATALOGUE OF INSTITUTIONS— RUMANIA, SCOTLAND, SPAIN 



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Staff: Superintendent, Adrian Lumley. Senior Sci- 

 entific Officers: George A. Reay, M.A., B.Sc, 

 Ph.D.; J. A. Lovern, B.Sc, Pli.D. Junior Scien- 

 tific Officers: J. Shewan, B.Sc, Pii.D.; A. Banks, 

 B.Sc, Ph.D. 7 Technical and Laboratory as- 

 sistants; 16 Industrial staff. 



Provisions for visiting investigators: No special 

 provision. 



Income: Financed entirely by H. M. Government. 



Provision for publication of results: Survey of each 

 year's work appears in the Annual Report of the 

 Food Investigation Board. Occasionally special 

 reports (on particular researches) and leaflets (for 

 information of the fish industry) are jjublished. 



These above are printed and published through 

 H. M. Stationery Office, Adastral House, Ivings- 

 way, London, W.C. 2. 



Scientific papers are published under authors' 

 names in various scientific and technical journals, 

 e.g. "Biochemical Journal," "Analyst," "Journal 

 of the Society of Chemical Industry," "Ice and 

 Cold Storage." 



Marine Biological Station, Keppel Pier, 

 Millport ('37) 



History or origin: The original laboratory was a 

 barge the Ark brought from the Forth by Sir 

 John Murray in 1885, and drawn up on the shore 

 near the present site. The Ark, replaced by a 

 stone building in 1897, was destroyed by a storm 

 in 1900. 



Location: Near Keppel Pier, on the south east 

 corner of Cumbrae Island in the Firth of Clyde; 

 about 1 mile from the town of ]\Iillport. 



Organization to which attached: Scottish Marine 

 Biological Association. 



Purposes: Investigation of the fauna and flora of the 

 Clyde Sea area and provisions of facilities for 

 research and study for students and others inter- 

 ested in such work. 



Scope of activities: Plankton investigations, growth 

 of the diatom crop in relation to Calanus; growth, 

 distribution, etc. of Calanus in relation to physico- 

 chemical factors; growth, food and distribution of 

 young herring, leading to the elucidation of the 

 food chain on which the herring fishery depends. 

 Quantitative studies of bivalves and Crustacea 

 in sandy bays in relation to the food supply of 

 inshore fishes. 



Equipment: Laboratory buUding, two floors, 30 

 feet by 75 feet with 30 foot wing. Fresh sea 

 water, gas, electric light and power. The labora- 



tory contains a Public Museum and Aquarium. 

 Library appro.\imately 1500 volumes and 2000 

 pamphlets. 



A motor boat M. B. Nautilus, 40 feet long, 

 12 tons, 30 h.p. engine, equipped for trawling, 

 sounding, townctting, etc. At the Station is an 

 18 foot boat with 3J horse outboard motor. 



Staff: Scientific: Director, Richard Elmhirst; Bio- 

 chemist, A. P. Orr, M.A., D.Sc, A.I.C.; Natu- 

 ralist, Miss S. M. Marshall, D.Sc; Assistant 

 Naturalist, Aubrey G. Nicholls, Ph.D. Mainte- 

 nance and operation: Foreman, J. Peden; Labora- 

 tory Assistant, E. Latham; Skipper and boatman, 

 R. Kerr; Museum attendant, J. Shields; Boatman 

 and cleaner, D. Burnie. 



Provisions for visiting investigators: 1 research room, 

 3 small cubicles, and the class room when not 

 otherwise in u.se (the class room seats 36), give 

 provision for about five workers. 



Plans for a new wing have now matured and 

 it is hoped to start building in February, 1937, an 

 extension parallel to the original building giving 

 provision for the staff and five new work rooms 

 as well as increased laboratory space. 



Income: Derived from subscriptions by members, 

 subscriptions from various public bodies, dona- 

 tions, sale of specimens, admissions to the museum 

 and aquarium and a maintenance grant from the 

 Development Commission. 



Provisions for publication of results: Summary in 

 Annual Report and otherwise, chiefly in Journal 

 Marine Biological A.ssociation as well as other 

 journals. 



Spain 

 Laboratorio Oceanografico de Canarias ('34) 



History or origin: E.stablished on November 8, 1928. 

 A permanent laboratory has not yet been erected 

 but one is contemplated for the relatively near 

 future.'" 



Location: Las Palmas, Leon y Castillo 264, Canary 

 Islands. 



Organization to which attached: Instituto Espanol 

 de Oceanografia. 



Purposes and scope of activities: For the systematic 

 investigations of the oceanographic and biological 

 conditions in the vicinity of the Canary Islands. 



Equipment: At present the quarters are only tem- 

 porary. 



'" Primeros trabajos del Laboratorio Oceanogrdfieo de 

 Canarias por Luis Bell6n y Emma Barddn Mateu. Insti- 

 tuto Espan. Oceanogr. Notas y Resumenes, ser. 2, no. 48, 

 pp. 79, 29 figs., 193L 



