The Marine Biological Station of the 



Imperial University at Misaki. 



By 



K. Mitsukuri, Ph. D. 



Professor of Zoology, Imperial University. 



With Plates XXVIII -XXIX. 



Thanks to the liberality of the Department of Education and 

 ,of the authorities of the Imperial University, a marine station in 

 connection with the biological laboratories of the Imperial University 

 has at last become a reality, and naturalists in Japan will not here- 

 after have to have recourse to dark and inconvenient fishermen's huts, 

 when they wish to study marine life. A piece of ground in the 

 town of Misaki on the west side of the entrance to the Bay of Tokyo 

 was ceded some years ago by the Imperial government to the then 

 University of Tokyo, but owing to unavoidable causes, building 

 of the station Avas not proceeded with until last autumn. The 

 laboratory of which a view from the sea is given in PI. XXVIII was 

 finished last March and is now ready for use. The building is of 

 plain wood, and one story high, except in the middle part which has 

 a second floor. The main laboratory room which occupies the whole 

 sea front (See the plan in PL XXVIII.) is 48 feet long, 12 feet wide 

 at the two ends and 18 feet in the middle, and is able to accommodate 

 about ten workers. A number of small aquaria for the use of in- 

 vestigators will be placed in this room. Of the rooms at the back of 

 the main laboratory, one (B) has a cement floor and is for assorting 

 and preserving specimens brought in from the sea. Anotlier (E) is to 



