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continuance of that study in the laboratories of the Univer- 

 sity. The marine station on the east shore at St Andrews has 

 been of incalculable value to the University students in these 

 laboratory studies. No other zoological school in the world 

 could afford, so perfectly as that of this ancient University, 

 such admirable facilities for practical study, for rock pools 

 teeming with life and the prolific waters of St Andrews Bay, 

 almost surround the marine station, and are within a stone's 

 throw of the University laboratories. (2) The efforts which 

 resulted twenty-eight years since in the securing of a temporary 

 wooden station were, twelve years ago, crowned with com- 

 plete success by the completion of the handsome Gatty 

 Laboratory, which was opened by the Right Hon. Lord 

 Reay on October 30, 1896. The project of a marine station 

 at St Andrews had been kept in mind, almost since student 

 days, by the occupant of the Chair of Natural History in 

 the University ; but it was the scientific work necessitated 

 by the Trawling Commission which brought the matter to 

 a practical issue. The Practical Zoological Laboratory in the 

 University was, indeed, at first used as a marine laboratory 

 as early as 1882. The report embodying observations made 

 during the Trawling Commission Investigations, was referred 

 to at length by the late Lord Playfair (then Sir Lyon Play- 

 fair), himself a distinguished St Andrews student, who said 

 in the House of Commons that the report of Professor 

 M'Intosh was ' one of the most valuable fishery publica- 

 tions ever issued.' The late Earl of Dalhousie, Chairman 

 of the Commission, spoke of the labours involved in the pre- 

 paration of this report, when moving the Sea Fisheries 

 (Scotland) Bill, on May 21, 1885, in the House of Lords 

 (and no man was better qualified to express an opinion), ' an 

 eminent naturalist, Professor M'Intosh, was appointed,' said 

 the lamented earl, ' to conduct experiments on board a steam 

 trawler. He carried on experiments for nine months, show- 

 ing much heroism and enduring a great deal of hardship in 



