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and lie is assisted during a great part of the year by a large staff 

 of temporary Professors from every part of France. The results 

 of the investigations carried on under his supervision are pub- 

 lished in the " Archives de Zoologie Experimentale," also founded 

 by Lacaze-Duthiers. 



There is only a nominal fee to be paid for admission to these 

 Laboratories, which attract students from all parts of the world. 

 Similarly at Trieste, Ville Franche, and Marseilles, students are 

 practically admitted free of cost from Austrian, Russian, and French 

 Universities. Foreigners can readily gain admittance to these 

 Laboratories on the most liberal terms. The Marseilles Station at 

 Endoume has the immense advantage of being within a short dis- 

 tance of the University, and is in fact one of its biological labora- 

 tories. The work done at Trieste is published, under the auspices 

 of Professor Claus, in the " Arbeiten aus dem zoologischen Institute 

 der Univ. Wien," and a special appropriation is made by the city 

 of Marseilles for the publication of the Annals of the Laboratory. 



The cost of maintaining three or four students at the Naples 

 Station is a serious expenditure for any university, and out of pro- 

 portion to the expenses incurred for them in other departments, 

 that cost being represented by many things in which a distant 

 educational institution can only have an indirect interest. The 

 cost of a table at Plymouth and in this country at Wood's Hole is 

 very much less than at Naples. 



In as far as Harvard University is concerned the annual expendi- 

 tures of the Newport Marine Laboratory, including those of the 

 steam launch and the transportation of the students to and from 

 Newport, if distributed among the tables in use by the students, 

 by myself and assistants, amount to somewhat less than the 

 expense for the same number of tables at the Wood's Hole Marine 

 Biological Laboratory for similar facilities. The results of the 

 work done at the Newport Marine Laboratory have thus far been 

 published in the Bulletins of the Museum. 



It is true that the expense of an independent station for each 

 prominent University would in this country be very large, and that 

 an American Marine Biological Laboratory supported by the joint 

 contributions of the principal Universities would be in the line of 

 economy. But as. soon as a single institution of that sort in- 

 creased in size and attempted to grant facilities for more or less 

 elementary instruction as well as for advanced work, it would 



