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St. Petersburg, has been its most earnest promoter as well as 

 constant visitor. He in fact caused the Superior of the Convent 

 to become interested in its work and secured a permanent 

 building by the Convent's grant ; he was then enabled by an 

 appropriation from the government to provide an equipment. 

 Its annual maintenance is due to the Society of Naturalists of 

 St. Petersburg. The matter of the appointment of a perma- 

 nent director for the summer months is now being agitated by 

 him. The station Solovetskaia is said to possess the richest 

 collecting region of the Russian coasts. It is certainly the 

 only laboratory which has at its command a truly Arctic 

 fauna. 



