706 The American Naturalist. ' . [August, 
With the richest collecting resources these new stations may 
naturally be expected to yield most important results. 
Russians have ever been most enthusiastic in marine 
research, and their investigators are to be found in nearly 
every marine station of Europe. , The French laboratory on 
the Mediterranean at Ville Franche, as has previously been 
noted, is supported essentially by Russians. At Naples 
they are often next in numbers to the Germans and 
Austrians. The learned societies of Moscow and St. 
Petersburg have contributed in no little way to marine 
research. The station at Sebastopol on the Black Sea, 
has become permanent, possessing an assured income. That 
near the Convent Solovetsky on the White Sea, though small, is 
of marked importance. It is already in its thirteenth year. 
Professor Wagner of St. Petersburg, has been its most earnest 
promoter as well as constant visitor. He in fact caused the 
Superior of the Convent to become interested in its work and 
secured a permanent building by the Convent’s grant; he 
was then enabled by an appropriation from government to 
provide an equipment. Its annual maintenance is due to the 
Society of Naturalists of St. Petersburg. The matter of the 
appointment of a permanent director for the summer months 
is now being agitated. The station Solovetskaia is said to 
possess the richest collecting region of the Russian coasts. 
It is certainly the only laboratory which has at its command 
-a truly Arctic fauna. 
The following list of papers relating to marine laboratories 
was kindly sent the writer from Naples by Mr. H. B. Pol- 
lard. 
Arcachon (Bulletin of the Scientific Society.) 
Berichte v. d. Ver der. biol. Stat. Sebastopol. Russian text. 
Brunchorst, Die biol. Meerestat. 1st. Bergen. Plate and plans. 
Buissent, Les Stations Zool. du Bords dela Mer. Rev. de 
Ques. Scien. Brussels, 1889. 
Dohrn, Aus Vergang. u. Gegenwart der Zool. Stat. in Neapel, 
Deutsche Rundschau, XVIII, h. II, Pactel, Berlin, 1892. 
- Fausseck, Station biologique * Solovetskaia." (1 892.) 
 Herdman, Annualreports of Liverpool M. B. Station on 
