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The first floor contains the laboratory, divided as usual by 
partitions into a series of tables. The tables are made with teak 
tops, and are fitted with drawers and cupboards, and to each there 
are also shelves and a sink with hot and cold fresh and salt water. 
Two of the tables in this room are made into private laboratories, 
and there is a third private laboratory, opening directly from the 
landing. The specimen room is also provided with a work table 
of the same pattern, and it is furnished with shelves and a case 
and drawers for collections. The library is fitted with shelves, 
cupboards with glass doors, table and reading desk. A store room 
for reagents, &c., also opens from the laboratory. This floor also 
provides a dark room, lecture room, and Director’s room. 
The building was opened on September 29th by His Grace the 
Duke of Northumberland, the late Mr. Hudleston being in the 
chair. 
Two tables are supported by Armstrong College, one by the 
University of Durham, one by the Newcastle Natural History 
Society, and one by the Northumberland Coast Club. The Coast 
Club table has been used regularly by several of the members, and 
already some of these have added materially to the Laboratory’s 
collections. Mr. Sisson occupies the Natural History Society’s 
table, and is devoting himself particularly to a study of the 
chemistry of the sea. Mr. Howson, Lecturer in Physiology in the 
College of Medicine, has given some of his time as the occupant of 
the table of the University to an enquiry into comparative histology. 
The tables of the College have been occupied by Miss Lebour, who 
has made a successful experimental infection of the mussel with 
trematodes (results published in Parasitology, 1909), and in further 
work on trematodes of fish ; by Miss Carr for the continuation of 
her investigations on the food of fish, and on their condition and 
growth ; by Mr. Brennan for an enquiry into the histological 
structure of Algae ; by Mr. Barling for a study of the destructive 
work of Limnoria lignorum on timber used for piles. Dr. Gelderd, 
of St. Cuthbert’s College, Ushaw, has also made several visits to 
obtain specimens for continuing his work on the minute anatomy 
of Mysidae. Material for research has been sent to Professor 
F. J. Cole, to Sir Charles Eliot, and others. 
The library already possesses many important works, and the 
thanks of the Committee are especially due to the Royal Society 
and the Government for a practically complete set of the 
Challenger volumes, to the Government for reports dealing with 
