1893.] Notes on Marine Laboratories of Europe. 705 
small and shallow, their inmates representing especially stages 
of Adriatic hydroids and anthozoans. On the second story 
are the investigators’ rooms, large, well lighted, looking out 
over garden and sea. Near by is a museum of local fauna, 
rich in crustaceans and in the larval stages of Adriatic fishes. 
GERMANY, Norway, RUSSIA. 
The German universities have contributed to such a degree 
to the building up of the station at Naples that they have 
hitherto been little able to avail themselves of the more con- 
venient but less favorable region of German coasts. The col- 
lecting resources of the North Sea and of the Baltic have 
perhaps been not sufficiently rich to warrant the establish- 
ment of a central station. On the side of the Baltic, the 
University of Kiel, directly on the coast, may itself be 
regarded a marine station. At present the interest in found- 
ing local marine laboratories has, however, become stronger. 
At Plón, at a corner of the North Sea not far from Flensburg, is 
established a small station under the directorship of Professor 
Zacharias,—and the first number of its contributions has 
recently been published. In addition the newly acquired 
Heligoland has become the seat of a well equipped Govern- 
mental station, under the directorship of Dr. R. Heincke. 
The island has been long known as most favorable in collect- 
ing regions, and its position in the midst of the North Sea 
fisheries gives it especial importance. 
Norway like Germany is strengthening its interest in local 
marine laboratories. During the past year (1892) it has suc- 
ceeded in establishing two permanent stations, one near Ber- 
gen,—the other south of Bergen an outjutting point of the 
North Sea almost westward of Christiana. The former is in- 
terested especially in matters relating to the. North Sea fisher- 
ies, and is supported partly by the contributions of a learned 
society and partly by a subsidy from the government in view 
of its relation to the practical fisheries. The second and smaller 
station is devoted almost exclusively to research in morphology, 
It is a dependency of the University of Christiana and is under 
the directorship of one of its professors, Dr. Johan Hjört. 
