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offers, to naturalists for occupying themselves with 

 these particular studies. 



By offering free accommodation in such a labora- 

 tory to competent investigators you may obtain a 

 large amount of valuable results at a minimum of 

 expenditure. In any such laboratory there would 

 probably be one or two permanent ofhcials who would 

 be competent zoologists, charged with special subjects 

 of investiofation and receivino^ salaries — but in addition 

 to these, the laboratory would throw open its resources 

 to voluntary workers (as do the foreign laboratories of 

 which I have spoken), and thus the working power and 

 the general interest of the scientific world in these 

 institutions and their work would be enormously 

 increased. 



I can imagine a National Fisheries Society or 

 Association, such as may come into existence in con- 

 nection with this Exhibition, building such a laboratory 

 for the study of marine zoology in relation to fisheries, 

 somewhere on the coast not too distant from London. 

 Such a laboratory would stand near the shore, jDOSsess 

 its own jetty and small harbour, with steam-launch 

 for dredging and trawling, and other boats. Adjacent 

 to it would be marine ponds for experiments in the 

 culture of oysters, mussels, and whelks, and of various 

 fish. The director of the laboratory and his assistant 

 would be provided with houses forming part of the 

 laboratory building. The basement of the laboratory 

 would consist of large well-paved rooms fitted with 

 tanks, and an apparatus for the circulation of sea- 

 water. Here animals w^ould be kept for observation, 



