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fishes. The collecting for the laboratory is aided by a 38-foot 
steam launch. 
The present support of the station is not, unfortunately, as 
generous a one as might be desired. The station is obliged to 
consider in the work of its director matters relating to public 
fisheries and is only enabled by this means to secure govern- 
mental assistance. The building itself was constructed by the 
efforts of the Marine Biological Association of the United 
Kingdom, under whose auspices the present work is being 
carried on. The efficiency of the laboratory is in no little way 
hampered in its purely scientifie work. The investigators’ 
tables are occupied by any founder of the Association, or his 
representative, by the naturalist or institutions who have 
rented them. The subscription price per year of an investi- 
gator's place is 40 pounds, but tables may be leased for as short 
a time as a month. The laboratory provides material for 
investigation and the ordinary apparatus of the marine labo- 
ratory, excluding microscopes and accessories. The use of the 
larger tanks of the main aquarium is also permitted to the 
working student. The work of the laboratory includes investi- 
gation of fishery matters, the preservation of animals to supply 
the classes of zoology in the universities and the formation of 
type collections of the British marine fauna. The naturalist 
of this station has been, for a number of years, Mr. J. T. Cun- 
ningham, whose experiments upon the hatching of the Sole 
have here been carried on. 
Other British marine stations are those of Liverpool and St. 
Andrews, north-east of Edinburgh. . The work of these stations 
is only in part purely biological; the practical matters of fish- 
eries must be considered to insure financial support. In addi- 
tion to these there are several stations, notably one south-east 
of Edinburgh, and another, recently equipped, on the Isle of 
Man. 
At St. Andrews, Professor MacIntosh has studied the ques- 
tions relating to the hatching and development of the North 
Sea fishes. Its situation upon the promontory leading into 
the Firth of Forth seems to have been especially favorable for 
the study of the North Sea fauna—the locality, moreover, is 
