K. MITSUEUKI 



be used as the library-room, and a third (C) as the store room. The 

 second floor over the central part of the building is able to give 

 sleeping accommodation for a few persons. From a tank placed 

 outside the building, fresh sea- water is carried into the main laboratory 

 room and the assorting room, and is delivered out of many facets. 



Misaki, (see Map PI. XXIX) the town in which the station is 

 situated, is an important fishing town on the western side of the 

 entrance to the Bay of Tokyo. It is the southern end of the peninsula 

 of Miura which divides the Tokyo Bay from the Bay of Sagami. It 

 is easily reached from Tokyo and Yokohama in one day. In front 

 of the town, there is an island called Jögashima, making between it 

 and the main land a spacious and well-sheltered strait Avhich forms 

 the harbor of Misaki. The strait is perhaps over two square miles in 

 extent and about eight fathoms in the deepest place. It is this piece 

 of water which the laboratory fronts. Several villages besides Misaki 

 are situated along the strait. It is an interesting fact that there is a 

 certain amount of division of labor among these fishing villages. 

 For instance, the fishermen of Misaki itself are engaged mainly in deep- 

 sea fishing, while those on the island of Jögashima confine themselves 

 to animals found close to the shore. These towns together supply 

 the fish-market of Tokyo with a large amount of marine produce. 



Misaki has long been a favorite collecting grounds for naturalists. 

 The harbor itself, the tide pools on the ocean side of Jögashima, and 

 the neighboring inlets of Muroiso, Koajiro &c. farnish all kinds of 

 bottom, while out in the sea off the shore there are beds which 

 furnish the world-renowned Hyalonema. Ahnost every group of 

 marine animals is represented in this region in more or less 

 abundance. I do not think we have, by any means, become ac- 

 quainted with even a small part of all the interesting animals to be 

 found, but I niight mention here some of the more important ones 



