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more work places for investigators, well supplied with aquaria, 
a library on the second floor, a small museum containing col- 
lections of local fauna, including numerous relics of Cetaceans 
that have found their way into this inland sea. A small 
aquarium room, opened to the publie, is well provided with 
local forms of fishes, and like that of Naples, is eagerly visited. 
Those who are entitled freely to the use of the work places are 
instructors in French colleges, members of the Society, and all 
the advanced students from the colleges of the State. For 
other students, work place is given upon the payment of a fee 
whose amount is regulated each year by the trustees. As at 
Roscoff, material is plentifully supplied. 
The Zoological Station at Cette is a direct annex of the Uni- 
versity of Montpelier, and it has been gladly learned that the 
present temporary building is to be replaced by one of stone, 
which will enable Professor Sabatier to add in no little way to 
the working facilities of his students. The region,in every 
essential regard, is similar to that of Banyuls. 
The station at Marseilles is devoted in great part to ques- 
tions relating to the Mediterranean fisheries, and owes, in a 
measure, its financial support to this practical work. 
The station at Ville Franche is essentially Russian. An 
account of this with figures has recently been published 
(Russian text) in Cracow. The station itself is well known 
through the work of Dr. Bolles Lee, and it is here that Profes- 
sor Carl Vogt has been a constant visitor. 
IL—ENGLAND. 
The laboratory at Plymouth is quite a recent one, first 
opened in 1888 with a building which is, in many regards, 
hardly second to Naples. This locality was found well suited 
for the needs of an extensive marine station. Opposite Brit- 
tany it takes advantage of the same extremes of tide, and the 
rocky Devonshire coast affords one of the richest collecting 
grounds. The situation of the building is a remarkable one ; 
it stands at one end of the famous Hoe of Plymouth—a broad, 
level park whose high situation looks far off over the channel. 
At the rear of the building are the old fortifications of the 
