632 The American Naturalist. [July, 
lillies are in profusion, and are gathered at the very steps of 
the laboratory. The work-rooms of the students are on the 
second floor, equipped in a manner similar to those of Roscoff. 
The director of this station is Dr. Frédéric Guitel. It is usual 
during the holidays at fall or winter, for the entire classes of 
the Sorbonne to spend several days in collecting trips in the 
neighborhood. The region, with its little port, is famous for its 
fisheries, and one in especial is that of the Angler, Lophius, a 
fish that would not be regarded as especially dainty on our. 
side of the Atlantic. : 
The station on the Straits of Dover, at Wimereaux, has 
earned a European reputation in the work of Professor Giard. 
It is but a small frame building, scarcely large enough to 
include the advanced students selected from the Sorbonne. 
The laboratory is, in a way, a rival of Roscoff, and it is note- 
worthy that its workers seem to make a point of studying the 
laboratory methods of the German universities. 
The marine laboratory of Arcachon, one of the oldest of 
France, was built in 1867 by the local scientific society, and 
was carried on independently until the time of the losses of the 
Franco-Prussian War. Its management was then fused with 
that of the faculty of medicine of Bordeaux, with whose assist- 
ance, aided by that of a small subsidy from the government, 
the work of the institution is carried on. Arcachon, in itself, 
is a most interesting locality near Bordeaux. It has becomea 
summering place, noted for its pine lands and the broad, sandy 
plage, picturesque in summer with swarms of quaintly dressed 
children, the local head-dress of the peasant mingling with the 
latest toilets from Paris. Here and there is to be seen that 
accompaniment of every French watering place, the goat boy 
in smock and berret, fluting to his dozen charges who walk in 
a stately way before him. The Bay of Arcachon is a 
small, tranquil, inland sea, long known for its rich fauna. In 
large part it is laid out in oyster parks which constitute to no 
small degree the source of wealth of the entire region. Shal- 
low and warm waters seem to give the marine life the best 
~ conditions for growth and development. The laboratory is 
_ placed just at the margin of the water. It includes a dozen or 
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