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scientific men who give their services, without reward or 

 thanks, to carrying out the purposes of the international 

 inquiry. Strange criticisms are offered by these mal- 



FIG. 47. 



The Laboratory of the Marine Biological Association on the Citadel 

 Hill, Plymouth, overlooking Plymouth Sound, The laboratory was built 

 with the aid of funds raised by public subscription and a contribution of 

 5,000 by H.M. Government, and cost 12,200. The Association has 

 expended, exclusive of this sum, since the opening of the laboratory in 

 1884, about 62,000, or an average of 3,000 a year on the maintenance 

 of the laboratory, steam-boat and fishing-boats, and in payment of a staff 

 of scientific observers. Of this sum the Government has contributed 

 one-third, the rest has come from private donations and subscriptions, and 

 from the " earnings " of the laboratory by sale of specimens, admission 

 fees to the tank-room, &c. The journal of the Association, published at 

 intervals, records a vast amount of scientific work, advancing our 

 knowledge of marine life and of the life-history of fishes. 



In addition to the above expenditure and results, the Association has super- 

 intended and most carefully directed the expenditure of 6,000 a year 

 during the past five years in the investigation of the southern area of the 

 North Sea and of the Channel at the request of H.M. Government, the work 

 being part of the International Investigation of the North Sea. The very 

 voluminous results of these inquiries are published in special reports by 

 the International Committee. Full particulars of the work of the Marine 

 Biological Association can be obtained from Dr. E. J. Allen, the Director, 

 the Laboratory, Citadel Hill, Plymouth, who will also receive donations 

 and applications for membership of the Association. 



