CATALOGUE OF INSTITUTIONS— SPAIN, SWEDEN 



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Scope of activities: The Swedish coastal tidal flats 

 of the Province of Bohuslan. 



Equipment: The usual equipment for making zoologi- 

 cal and ichthyological collections as well as 

 apparatus for making quantitative investigations 

 of soft bottoms and a motor boat. 



Staff: Director, Sven Ekman, Professor in the 

 Zoological Museum, University of Uppsala. 2 

 subordinate officers. 



Provision for visiting investigators: The Station has 

 not yet been outfitted to care for scientific guests 

 and it can be used only during the summer. 



Income: Source: State appropriation. 

 Amount: 5,000 Swedish Kroner yearly. 



Provisions for publication of results: None. 



Kristinebergs Zoologiska Station ('37) 



History or origin: Founded in 1877. 



Location: On the west coast of Sweden, near the 

 mouth of the Gullmarfjord, at Fiskebackskil. 



Organization to which attached: Royal Swedish 

 Academy of Science. 



Purposes: Research and some instruction. 



Scope of activities: A course in marine zoology is 

 given every year in June for Swedish University 

 students. 



Equipment: Two laboratories with modern equip- 

 ment for investigations. Library with 10,000 

 volumes and reprints. Motor boat Sven LoviiN, 

 42 feet long, 16 foot beam, with a 30 horse-power 

 petrol motor. 2 small motor boats. A tower for 

 sea water, capacity 70 cu. m. Boarding house. 

 3 official residences. 



Staff: Director, Professor Dr. Einar Lonnberg, 

 Stockholm. Manager, Fil. Dr. Gunnar Gustaf- 

 son, Fiskebackskil. Maintenance and opera- 

 tion: 4. 



Provisions for visiting investigators: The station is 

 open all the year. Research material, reagents 

 and instruments are free for use, without any 

 cost. The visitors are permitted to stay in the 

 boarding house and have only to pay the cost for 

 meals. Foreign investigators are welcome and 

 have the same privileges. There are 20 work 

 places. 



Income: The yearly budget is 24,500 Swedish Kronor 

 paid by the Royal Academy of Science. 



Provision for the publication of results: The Station 

 has no series of its own. The result of work done 

 at the Station is published in the publications of 

 the Swedish Royal Academy of Science. 



Oceanografiska Institutionen vid Goteborgs 

 Hogskola ('37) 



History or origin: Founded as docentur — experi- 

 mental grant and allotment of three rooms — 

 by a private donor. Doctor Gustaf Ekman, in 

 1914. The chair in oceanography was founded in 

 1930 by Mr. Knut Mark, as professor. 



Location: Goteborg, in the building of the Hogskola, 

 now comprising three rooms and lecture room. 



Organization to which attached: Belongs to Goteborgs 

 Hogskola, a university (incomplete), founded by 

 private donors and subsidized by the city of 

 Goteborg. 



Purposes and scope of activities: Teaching of students 

 for graduate and postgraduate courses as a 

 complement to the course in geography. Also 

 research in oceanography and geophysics. 



Equipment: A stock of oceanographic, physical, 

 and chemical apparatus acquired from annual 

 grant. 



Staff: Scientific: Director, Dr. Hans Pettersson. 

 A docent, at present vacant. The assistants of 

 Svenska Hydrografisk-Biologiska Komissionen 

 make use of the institution for their research. 



Provisions for visiting investigators: No provisions 

 for regular visitors; occasionally guests have 

 worked in the institution. 



Income: Source: Income from donations made by 

 Dr. Gu.staf Ekman and Mr. Knut Mark. 



Amount: (Of donations from which income is 

 derived) 100,000 Kronor — Dr. Gustaf Ekman, 

 for experimental grant (inclusive of salary for 

 docent). 300,000 Kronor— Mr. Knut Mark, for 

 salary to professor in oceanograjjhy. 



Provision for publication of results: The results from 

 the scientific investigations of the director, who 

 is also director of hydrographical work for the 

 Svenska Hydrografisk-Biologiska Komissionen, 

 with which body the institution is in close co- 

 operation, arc published in a series "Meddelanden 

 frS,n Oceanografiska Institutionen vid Goteborgs 

 Hogskola" included in "Kungliga Vetenskaps- och 

 Vitterhetssamhallcts Handlingar Goteborg." The 

 series which was started in 1931 has at present 12 

 numbers in large 8 quartos. 



Note: Thanks to the munificence of "Knut and 

 Alice Wallenbergs Stiftelse," the same private donor 

 who had proxided the Svenska H. B. Komissionen 

 with its two Stations at Borno and Lysekil, a new 

 Oceanographic Institute will soon be erected in 

 Goteborg, building operations to commence in the 



