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far enough northward to include a number of boreal forms. 
The importance of St. Andrews is at length better recognized, 
and a substantial grant from the government will enable a 
large and permanent marine station to be here constructed. 
The facilities for work have, up to the present time, been 
DUTCH ZOOLOGICAL STATION AT THE HELDER. 
(Fig. from Tijdsehr. d. Ned. Dierk. Vereen, 5 Juli, 1890.) 
somewhat primitive—a simple wooden building single storied, - 
has been partitioned off into small rooms, a general labora- 
tory, with work places for half a dozen investigators, a direc- 
tor’s room, aquarium and a small out-lying engine house 
with storage tanks. The laboratory owns a small sail-boat to 
assist in the work of collecting. 
HOLLAND. 
Holland, in the summer of 1890, opened its zoological sta- 
tion in the Helder, a locality which, for this purpose, had long 
