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At Banyuls, the second station of the Sorbonne, the build- 

 ings are less imposing than those of Roscoff. It is a plain, 

 three-story building facing the north, at the edge of the prom- 

 ontory which shelters the harbor at Banyuls. The vivier is in 

 front of the station, behind is a reservoir cut in the solid rock 

 receiving the waters of the Mediterranean and distributing 

 it throughout the building. On the first floor is a large 

 aquarium room lighted by electricity, well-supplied with tanks 



FRENCH MARINE STATION AT BANYULS-SUR-MER. 

 (October, 1891.) 



and decorated not a little with statuary donated by the 

 Administration of the Beaux-Arts. The bust of Arago 

 occupies an important place, as the laboratory has been named 

 in his honor. A suit of a diver sugests the different tactics in 

 collecting made necessary by the slightly falling tides of the 

 Mediterranean. The wealth of living forms in the aquaria 



