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on exploring vessels and in the laboratories of Biological 

 Stations and Universities of all civilised countries." 



This was the year of the foundation of the great Museum 

 of Oceanography at Monaco, and if this modern science of the 

 sea has now reached such an advanced stage that it can be 



Fig. 14. The first Oceanography class at Port Erin, August, 1910. 



[From a photo, by II. E. Roaf. 



demonstrated in a museum to the public, it is clearly desirable 

 that it should be taught both theoretically and practically in 

 our Universities and at Biological Stations. There must be 

 many young biologists and other teachers who desire to learn 

 something of the methods of investigation and the results 

 obtained, by direct contact with the material and the apparatus 



