2l6 BIOLOGICAL LECTURES. 



Liberality is one of the characteristic features of Roscoff. The 

 stranger who writes to Professor de Lacaze-Duthiers is accorded 

 a work place which entitles him gratuitously to every privilege 

 of the laboratory his microscope, his reagents, even his 

 lodging-room should a place be vacant. It seems, in fact, to 

 be a point of pride with Professor Lacaze that the stranger 

 shall be welcomed to Roscoff, and upon entering the laboratory 



ROSCOFF. INTERIOR OF AQUARIUM ROOM. 

 (July, 1891.) 



for the first time, feel entirely at home. He finds his table in 

 order, his microscope awaiting him, and the material for which 

 he had written displayed in stately array in the glass jars and 

 dishes of his work place. So, too, he may have been assigned 

 one of the large aquaria in the glass aquarium room massive 

 stone-base stands, aerated by a constant jet of sea water. 



He finds a surprising wealth of material at Roscoff, and his 

 wants are promptly supplied. 



