1893.] Notes on Marine Laboratories of Europe. 631 
story building facing the north, at the edge of the promontory 
which shelters the harbor of Banyuls. The vivier is in front 
of the station, behind is a reservoir cut in the solid rock— 
receiving the water of the Mediterranean and distributing it 
throughout the building. On the first floor is a large aquar- 
ium room lighted by electricity, well-supplied with tanks and 
decorated not a little with statuary donated by the Adminis- 
tration of the Beaux-Arts. The bust of Arago occupies an 
BANYULS-SUR-MER. INTERIOR OF AQUARIUM ROOM. 
(Oct., 1891.) 
important place, as the laboratory has been named in his 
onor. The suit of a diver, as may be seen in the adjoining 
figure, indicates at a glance the different tactics in collecting 
required by the slightly falling tides of the Mediterranean. 
The wealth of living forms in the aquaria shows at once by 
variety of bright colors the richness of southern fauna. Sea 
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