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Biological Association of the United Kingdom, of 

 which Professor Huxley became president, and H.K.H. 

 the Prince of Wales patron. About 300 members 

 joined the Association, and subscriptions were invited 

 for the purpose of erecting a laboratory. After due 

 inquiry Plymouth Sound was agreed upon as the 

 locality for the first laboratory, and a site was placed 

 at the disposal of the Association by the authorities 

 of the War Office. Donations of £500 and upwards 

 were received from the Fishmongers' Company 

 (£2000), the Clothworkers' Company, the University 

 of Oxford, the University of Cambridge, the British 

 Association for the Advancement of Science, Mr. 

 Eobert Bayly, and Mr. John Bayly of Plymouth. 

 Sums varying from £100 to £300 w^ere subscribed 

 by the Drapers, Mercers, Goldsmiths, and Grocers' 

 Companies, by the Corporation of London, and by the 

 Eoyal, the Zoological, and the Eoyal Microscopical 

 Societies, as well as by a number of gentlemen 

 interested in the enterprise, either as naturalists or as 

 philanthropists. Finally Parliament, on the recom- 

 mendation of the Treasury, voted a sum of £5000 

 in aid of the building and fitting of the laboratory, 

 and a sum of £500 a year for five years towards 

 defraying the annual cost of management and re- 

 search. The laboratory, which is represented in the 

 vignette, stands in front of King Charles's Curtain on 

 the Citadel Hill, overlooking Plymouth Sound. It 

 was completed and opened for work in June 1888. 

 The building and fittings, including aquariums, 

 pumps, and steam-engines, have cost about £12,000. 



