MAEINE BIOLOGICAL STATION ON PUFFIN ISLAND. 51 



two each against the wall of one of the rooms, (II. in fig. 

 3) are found to be a great improvement on the camp beds, 

 especially in cold weather ; and a long fixed work-table, 

 with some shelving, has converted another room (III.) 

 into a most useful indoors laboratory, where work can be 

 carried on at night and on very cold days, when the out- 

 side laboratory, with its stone floor and many windows, 

 is too uncomfortable, even for the enthusiast. 





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LABORATORY. 



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Fig. 3. — Plan of the Biological Station. W.W., windows ; C, chimney. 



Saturday was bright but showery all day. The after- 

 noon was spent by the whole party on the long south spit 

 at low tide, and the animals and plants collected were 

 arranged, identified, and preserved in the laboratory dur- 

 ing the evening. At night the wind rose and blew with 

 great force against the north side of the house, and squalls 

 of hail rattled against the windows at intervals. In the 

 morning we were up at half-past seven, and found a heavy 

 sea rolling in, a keen north wind blowing, and the moun- 

 tains behind Penmaenmawr and Llanfairfechan white 

 with snow. Mr. I. C. Thompson, with characteristic 

 energy, at once conveyed me off to the cliffs for a morning 

 plunge in the breakers in the middle of a shower of mingled 

 sleet and driven sea foam ; while our more sensible com- 



