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adjoining buildings which include lodging quarters, a well- 

 furnished library and a laboratory for elementary students. 

 Surrounding the building is an attractive garden which gives 

 one anything but a just idea of the barrenness of the soil of 

 Brittany. From the sea wall of the laboratory one looks out 

 over the rocks that are becoming exposed by the receding tide. 

 A strong enclosure of masonry serves as a vivier to be used for 



MARINE STATION AT ROSCOFF, BRITTANY. 

 (From photograph, July, 1891.) 



experiments as well as to retain water for supplying the 

 laboratory. The students arc, in the main, those of the Sor- 

 bonne, and under the direction of Dr. Prouho, their maitrc dc 

 conferences. They are given every opportunity to take part in 

 the collecting excursions, frequently made in the laboratory's 

 small sailing vessels, among the rocky islands of the neighbor- 

 ing coast. Strangers, too, are not infrequent, and are 

 generously granted every privilege of the French student. 



