2 JOURNAL OF MARINE ZOOLOGY AND MICROSCOPY. 



Every effort will be made to render the matter in good and 

 lucid English. Technical terms will be avoided wherever great 

 sacrifice of directness is not involved. All articles will be relevant 

 and our efforts will be directed towards conciseness. The journal 

 will be the organ of the Jersey Marine Biological Station, and will 

 chronicle its progress, its struggles, and its encouragements, and thus 

 afford to its many friends and supporters interesting record of the 

 help it is rendering in a modest way to the cause of Natural Science. 



The great majority of the present notes are furnished by the 

 Station, and unfortunately the Editor and his pen are responsible 

 for the whole of the present matter. Time has been too short to 

 obtain for this issue any literary assistance from friends, but the 

 Editor is able to promise that short notes will in future appear from 

 several able writers in the world of science. 



A first number is always beset by certain grave difficulties that 

 however usually lessen with each succeeding issue. We are ex- 

 periencing this in a great degree, and plead this as excuse for 

 whatever blemishes disfigure the present pages. 



But enough. Having asked your kind forbearance we must 



push off and venture out among the waves of criticism with what 



strength and courage and skill we can summon — 



" It may be that the gulfs will wash us down, 

 " It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles," 



and whichever fate awaits us, we shall strive stoutly to deserve the 

 more fortunate. 



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The Jersey Biological Station. The hopes regarding the advantages that, 

 would accrue to Marine Zoological Science from the establishment of this Station, have 

 been shown, by the past nine months' experience, to be well founded. Completed 

 in March of the present year, work was immediately begun in the stocking of 

 the aquarium tanks, and in the bringing together of representative specimens of the 

 local Fauna. Much remains to be done, but there can be no doubt as to the 

 suitability of the site chosen, and of the planning of the building. 



In front, stretch for miles, immense areas of perhaps the finest collecting 

 ground in Britain ; the Station boats are moored within a stone's throw ; high tide 

 comes practically to the doors ; the sea is pure and uncontaminated by sewage. 

 The land surroundings are equally good, being the prettiest and quietest suburb of 

 St. Helier; thus while having all the advantages of proximity to a large town, 

 the Station is free from the close atmosphere and traffic noises of an urban situation. 



The building consists of three floors : The first answers the purposes of an 

 aquarium, while adjoining is a rough dissecting room, &c. The second contains the 

 type museum and reference library, and serves admirably as a demonstration 

 room. Finally upon the third floor, are partitioned compartments of ample size, 

 for the use of students and research workers ; several have already taken advantage 

 of these facilities, and indications are that from next Easter onwards, there will 

 be quite a numerous band of students and investigators at work.. 



