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study of living forms, and become deeply interested in their structure 

 and physiology. 



The great aim of an University being to encourage original research, as 

 well as diffuse knowledge, such a Marine Station is indispensable in these 

 times to both the Zoological and Botanical Departments. An University 

 by the sea would fall short of performing its whole duty if it neglected 

 so valuable an opportunity. While the importance of a Marine Station 

 is thus so vital to the higher life of an University, it also touches very 

 nearly the welfare and progress of other State Departments, e.g., the 

 Fisheries, and in certain respects the Naval service. I might say much 

 more, but it is to be hoped that the foregoing brief statement will suffice 

 to show the University authorities in Sydney, and also the Government, 

 the importance of immediate action in the case. 



W. McINTOSH, 



Professor of Natural History and 

 Convener of the Science Committee, 

 University of St. Andrew. 



From Prof. J. Cossar Ewart, Professor of Natural History (Zoology) in the 

 University of Edinburgh. 



University, Edinburgh, August, 1890. 

 Dear Prof. Haswell, — I understand an attempt is being made to insti- 

 tute for the Australian Colonies a well-equipped Marine Station. As the 

 University of Edinburgh is in many ways interested in the development 

 of the Australasian Universities and Colleges, and as I am, from my con- 

 nection with the Scottish Fishery Board, much interested in the scientific 

 aspect of the fisheries, I trust you will allow me to express the wish that 

 a large Laboratory on the lines of the one at Naples will ere long be 

 established. With your rich and largely unexplored seas, you must have 

 felt more keenly than we have that progress in Marine Biology is all 

 but impossible without the use of Marine Laboratories. 



We are no longer satisfied with a knowledge of the structure of lowly 

 organisms. We especially want to know their development and life- 

 history, and to uuderstand the function of the various parts and organs 

 of which they are composed. But in the case of marine plants and 

 animals, it is impossible to attain this kind of knowledge unless we are 

 in a position to study them under as nearly as possible natural conditions. 



The Australian Colonies have already added largely to Zoological 

 science, and if, as is anticipated, marine work is systematically carried 

 on, valuable results will undoubtedly be gained, which, in addition to 

 advancing science, may be the means of solving some of the many problems 

 on which the development and regulation of the Fisheries so largely depend. 

 Trusting that in the institution of the Marine Station you will have the 



