xevlil Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [ June, 
appliances ; it is not a teaching institution . . On the first 
floor there is, facing south, the principal library ornamented with 
paintings, and acing north, a large hall containing twelve 
On the second — is ne physiological laboratory, and on the 
third floor the small library, a hall with several working 
which the animals are delivered, stored, and preserved, and the 
fishing tackle kept, together with the workshop of the engineer ; 
on the first and second floors are work-rooms, amongst others 
the botanical laboratory .... The materials for study which 
the station offers to the biologist are specimens of marine 
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The students who work in the pig? have the first claim 
on specimens of plants and animals; but specimen 
supplied to museums, laboratories and schools, and to individuals 
engaged in original research elsewhere.’ 
rge numbers of such in parcels are despatched every year to 
distant to topes, and this side of the work has been of great value 
to scl 
It ase ten oped that a little unpretentious aquarium for the 
ites ok mea of which in Bengal this is a plea, may, as time goes 
receive the same great impulse to which other similar institn- 
tions Sead their birth, growth and expansion, and fulfil the same 
useful purposes. 
As a place for rational amusement it would be a novelty 
in Bengal, and as such its po unl se 
ia ehowstios as a show-place should not be los 
sight of. 
In spite of its many advantages, the suitability of Calcutta as 
Ideal place for an 
aquarium 
expert opinion points to the coast of 
Pari as the ideal place for such a pur 
summing up his impressions of the Orissa coast from the 
zoological point of view, Lt.-Colonel Alcock writes as follows : 
“T look upon it as an ideal place for any one who wishes to study 
the complete life-histories of the Indian shore-fishes and Crus- 
tacea, and I believe that a Biological Station, established at 
Puri, would be in the highway of oreat discoveries 
Speaking on the subject of the economic possibilities of 
the Orissa coast, the same author remarks “that if the regula- 
tions of the salt-excise could be modified, and if capital on a 
liberal scale were forthcoming, it would furnish inexhaustible 
supplies of dried and smoked fish, fish-oil, isinglass and gelatines 
for the world i in general, and of shark’s fins for the China market 
in particular. 



