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marine fauna which insures an abundance of material for the 
laboratories. Dr. Ermanno Giglio-Tos of the University of 
Cagliari is the director of the station. 
Bulgaria. 
The new kingdom of Bulgaria has already established a 
biological station at Varna, on the Black Sea, with Dr. T. Mor- 
now as director. 
Russia. 
Russian biologists have long taken great interest in such 
laboratories and they were among the first to establish a station. 
One was founded at Sebastopol on the Black Sea in 1871, by 
the Royal Academy of Science of Sebastopol. A new building 
was erected in 1897 which contains laboratories that will ac¬ 
commodate seventeen investigators, a public aquarium, a mu¬ 
seum room for local fauna, and a library. The station possesses 
a fair sized motor boat which is equipped with collecting appar¬ 
atus. The laboratories are open to foreign as well as Russian 
biologists. 
In 1899 a station was opened near Alexandrowsk on the Mur- 
man coast of Russia. It is situated on Catherine Harbor which 
lies well within the Arctic Circle. 
Some years ago a biological station was established at Saratow 
by a local natural history society for the purpose of studying 
the fauna and flora of the Volga River in that vicinity. 
Just recently a laboratory was founded at Astrachan for the 
purpose of making a special study of the fauna found in the 
delta of the Volga River and in the neighboring parts of the 
Caspian Sea. Dr. S. A. Mitropolsky is director of this station. 
