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aquaria are in constant use for developmental studies. The 

 collecting for the laboratory is aided by a 38-foot steam launch. 



The present support of the station is not, unfortunately, as 

 generous a one as might be desired. The station is obliged to 

 consider in the work of its director matters relating to public 

 fisheries, and is only enabled by this means to secure govern- 

 mental assistance. The building itself was constructed by the 

 efforts of the Marine Biological Association of the United 



BRITISH MARINE LABORATORY, PLYMOUTH. 



(August, 1892.) 



Kingdom, under whose auspices the present work is being 

 carried on. The investigators' tables are occupied by any 

 founder of the Association, or his representative, by the natu- 

 ralist or institutions who have rented them. The subscription 

 price per year of an investigator's place is 40, but tables may 

 be leased for as short a time as a month. The laboratory pro 



