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garden through a large gateway and passes into a court-yard 

 whose outhouses disclose the pails and nets of the marine 

 laboratory. Perhaps an attendant will here be sorting out the 

 plunder which a bronze-legged fisherman has just brought in. 



A library and the rooms of the director, Dr. Graeffe, are 

 close by the entrance of the building. In the basement is the 

 aquarium room, somewhat dark and cellar-like ; its tanks 

 small and shallow, their inmates representing especially stages 

 of Adriatic hydroids and anthozoans. On the second story are 

 the investigators' rooms, large, well-lighted, looking out over 

 garden and sea. Near by is a museum of local fauna, rich in 

 crustaceans and in the larval stages of Adriatic fishes. 



VI-IX. GERMANY, NORWAY, SWEDEN, RUSSIA. 



The German universities have contributed to such a degree 

 to the building up of the station at Naples that they have 

 hitherto been little able to avail themselves of the more con- 

 venient but less favorable region of German coasts. The 

 collecting resources of the North Sea and of the Baltic have 

 perhaps been not sufficiently rich to warrant the establish- 

 ment of a central station. On the side of the Baltic, the 

 University of Kiel, directly on the coast, may itself be regarded 

 as a marine station. At present the interest in founding local 

 marine laboratories has, however, become stronger. The newly 

 acquired Heligoland has become the seat of a well-equipped 

 Governmental station. The island has been long known as 

 most favorable in collecting regions, and its position in the 

 midst of the North Sea fisheries gives it especial importance. 



Its present building is three-storied, of stone, situated near 

 the water on the Jutland side of the island. Work places are 

 provided for four investigators. Its director is Dr. F. Heinke ; 

 his assistants, Drs. Hartlaub, Ehrenbaum, and Kuckuck. The 

 Istrian laboratory at Rovigno, a favorable collecting point on 

 the Adriatic, is to be included among the German stations It 

 was destined by Dr. Hermes, its founder, as the supply depot 

 of the Berlin aquarium. Of its work places, two have been 

 rented by the Prussian government, and a third is to be 

 obtained by application to Dr. Hermes. 



