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Tables may be bad in the research rooms for a nominal rental. 
The marine laboratory at Saint Andrews is a stone building, 
one story high. There is a large, well lighted acqnarinm room 
and work places in an adjoining room for a dozen persons. It 
is under the direction of Professor Macintosh of the University 
of St. Andrews. 
The Scottish Oceanographical Laboratory at Edinburgh has 
also played a very prominent role in marine investigations. 
Dr. W. S. Bruce, its director, had charge of the Scotia Antarctic 
expedition and he has also made explorations in Spitzbergen. 
In this way the laboratory has obtained much valuable material 
from these regions. Part of this material has been studied by 
specialists and their results published, but much of it is still 
being studied or remains untouched. 
A small marine laboratory is also maintained in connection 
with the fish hatchery at Aberdeen. 
In 1897 very extensive investigations were begun on the 
lakes of Scotland by the Scottish Lake Survey under the direc¬ 
tion of Sir John Murray. So far the work has been carried on 
without the aid of a biological station. At first attention wa§ 
directed chiefly to a bathymetrical survey of the lakes and up 
to the latter part of 1906, when this part of the work was dis¬ 
continued, 562 lakes in all had been sounded. Reports on this 
work and hydrographic maps of many of the lakes have already 
been published. 
The biological phase of the work has been confined principally 
to making collections for a qualitative survey of the fauna and 
flora of the lakes. A study of the material that has been col¬ 
lected, has so far revealed the presence of more than 700 species 
of plants and animals. It has also brought out many interest¬ 
ing facts concerning the peculiar habits and unusual distribu¬ 
tion of many forms. The several papers relating to the work 
which have so far been published, constitute a very important 
contribution to limnology. 
