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but can be used as a comfortable work room during severe. 
weather, when the outside laboratory (with a stone floor) 
is too cold, and the wind is in such a direction that the 
stove cannot be used. The Committee propose that before 
next summer a simple fixed work-table running in front 
of the window, and a few shelves, should be put up in 
this room in order that it may be used regularly as an 
in-doors laboratory; while four or six wooden bunks 
erected against the wall in the adjoining room (No. II. 
in plan, fig. 2) would be a useful addition to the sleeping 
accommodation. ) 
Fig. 2.—Plan of the Biological Station. W. W. windows; C. chimneys. 
CONDITION OF THE SEA. 
During the year, the curator (Mr. Alex. Rutherford) has 
continued to draw up and forward to Liverpool the weekly 
reports described last year, containing a careful record of 
the air and sea temperatures and other physical observa- 
tions. From these tables it has now become possible to 
trace the distribution throughout the year, and the 
relations to temperature, of the remarkable Alge, the 
appearance of which in such profusion as to cause “foul 
water,” was first described in letters to Nature, in July, 
