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628 The American Naturalist. [July, 
by a local scientific society, and having at its command the 
collecting resources of a small inland sea, famous for its oyster 
culture. Smaller stations are not wanting, as at the Sables 
d'Olonne. — 
At Roscoff the laboratory building looks directly out upon 
the channel. In its main room on the ground floor, work 
places are partitioned off for a dozen investigators; this on the 
one hand leads to a large glass-walled aquarium room, seen in 
FRENCH MARINE STATION AT ROSCOFF, BRITTANY. 
(From photograph by author, July, 1891.) 
the accompanying figure, while on the other opens directly to 
adjoining buildings which include lodging quarters, a well- 
furnished library and a laboratory for elementary students. 
Surrounding the building is an attractive garden which gives 
one anything but a just idea of the barrenness of the soil of 
Brittany. From the sea wall of the laboratory one looks out 
