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Honorary Director of the scientific work, and to 

 whose untiring energy the University and the 

 district owe so large a debt. With him work 

 two senior assistants, Dr. Jenkins and Mr. James 

 Johnstone, from whose lucid and admirable work 

 many of our figures and facts have been taken. 



The third and last body occupied with original 

 research in the seas is the Marine Biological 

 Association of the United Kingdom. It is the 

 most important of these institutions, and aims 

 at a national rather than at a local activity. The 

 fine laboratory which dominates the eastern end 

 of Plymouth Hoe was erected at a cost of 12,000, 

 and opened in 1888. The objects of the Associa- 

 tion are to " promote researches leading to the 

 improvement of zoological and botanical science, 

 and to an increase of our knowledge as regards 

 the food, life-conditions and habits of British 

 food-fisheries and molluscs/' Although a high 

 average of scientific work has been maintained 

 in the published memoirs connected with the 

 Plymouth Laboratory, great attention has been 

 paid to matters of practical interest. In a list 

 of some 350 papers, published with the aid or 

 under the auspices of the Association between 

 1886 and 1900, very nearly one-half deal with 



