100 A Corner of Brittany. 
with a love of nature and a desire to study, or to investigate. No 
one who has known its hospitality can question the justice of the 
third word of the legend. 
The laboratory founded by Prof. Lacaze-Duthiers is a laboratory 
for students as well as investigators, and it numbers among its 
workers those who have earned the title of naturalists as well as 
those who have just begun their studies. It is not too much to say 
that every facility which experience and money can suggest are here 
placed without expense within reach of every student of zoology who 
makes a choice of Roscoff for a working place. 
Everything is free, microscopes, reagents, boats manned by ex- 
perienced collectors, books, work-table, instruction, all are given 
with a lavish hand, with no distinction of nationality or peculiarity of 
scientific belief. There is no charge for an opportunity to contri- 
bute to the advance of knowledge or to take the first steps in the ac- 
quisition of methods of research. 
The students in the laboratory are even furnished with sleeping 
rooms near their working tables, so that no time maybe lost or ex- 
pense incurred. In liberality there is no known institution outside 
of France which does more or even as much for those who wish to 
investigate marine animals. 
The laboratory at Roscoff is a laboratory for summer work and is 
supplemented by a second creation of the same founder at Banyuls- 
Sur-Mer on the Mediterranean Sea, for research in winter. These 
two, both connected with the University of France, offer a contin- 
uous opportunity at all times of the year for the study of marine 
animals of the two shores of France. They open to students two 
different faunas under the most experienced instructors, the most 
favorable influences under the most liberal circumstances. 
The laboratory at Roscoff not only furnishes material for investi- 
gation, but it also presents opportunities for collecting, and for the 
study of marine animals in their native habitats. 
In the study of marine animals on the shore, as well as in museums 
and laboratories situated inland, students may become closet natural- 
ists. It is recognized that it is a good thing to collect as well as to 
study animals after- they are collected. Two methods of work on 
marine animals are possible. Either the naturalist may remain at 
his work-table and have experienced collectors bring him what he 
desires to study, or he may himself visit the localities where the an- 
imals live and find them himself. Both methods have advantages, 
