The Biological stations of EuropeU.S. Government Printing Office, 1910 - 360 pages |
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... glass basins .... XXXI . Zoological station at Wimereaux : A , Station building from the east ; B , Interior of general laboratory . 122 130 XXXII . Marine Biological Station at Plymouth : A , General view ; B , In- terior of general ...
... glass basins .... XXXI . Zoological station at Wimereaux : A , Station building from the east ; B , Interior of general laboratory . 122 130 XXXII . Marine Biological Station at Plymouth : A , General view ; B , In- terior of general ...
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... glass on aquarium fronts , Monaco . 4. Basement floor , zoological station at Cette ... 5. Ground floor , zoological ... glass sides , Millport Biological Station 197 Page . Figure 34. Double - bank fire - clay ILLUSTRATIONS . IX.
... glass on aquarium fronts , Monaco . 4. Basement floor , zoological station at Cette ... 5. Ground floor , zoological ... glass sides , Millport Biological Station 197 Page . Figure 34. Double - bank fire - clay ILLUSTRATIONS . IX.
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... glass jars poised gracefully on their heads , march into the court and receiving room of the station with their prizes from the sea - scarlet starfishes , orange feather stars , red and black sea - cucum- bers , sea - urchins ...
... glass jars poised gracefully on their heads , march into the court and receiving room of the station with their prizes from the sea - scarlet starfishes , orange feather stars , red and black sea - cucum- bers , sea - urchins ...
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... glass for aquarium illumination upon its northern side . For the same reason extensive dark rooms find their location here . The building consists of two detached structures , a western block ( 25 by 18 m . ) containing the biological ...
... glass for aquarium illumination upon its northern side . For the same reason extensive dark rooms find their location here . The building consists of two detached structures , a western block ( 25 by 18 m . ) containing the biological ...
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... glass fronts used measure 0.9 by 1.9 m . and 25 mm . thick , 0.75 by 1.50 m . and 22 mm . thick , and 0.75 by 1.20 m . and 20 mm . thick . The plate glass rests against frames of cast iron ( half pillars 15 and 10 cm . diameter ) on ...
... glass fronts used measure 0.9 by 1.9 m . and 25 mm . thick , 0.75 by 1.50 m . and 22 mm . thick , and 0.75 by 1.20 m . and 20 mm . thick . The plate glass rests against frames of cast iron ( half pillars 15 and 10 cm . diameter ) on ...
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adjacent algæ annual apparatus aquaria aquarium room Arcachon assistant Banyuls Banyuls-sur-Mer Bergen boat bottom building carried cement central charge chemical circulation coast collection committee Concarneau connection contains dark room depth diameter director Doctor dredging engine equipment exhibition fauna fauna and flora fiord fire-clay fish culture fisheries floor tank francs fresh water fresh-water furnished Glasgow glass glassware hatchery hatching Helgoland horsepower hydrographic institution instruction investigators iron Kristineberg kronen Laboratoire Luc-sur-Mer Marine Biological marine biology marine laboratory material microscopes microtomes Millport Millport station Monaco motor museum Naples Naples station naturalist North Sea otter trawl pelagic physiological plankton Plymouth Plymouth station Port Erin Prof Professor pump reagents rear research room reservoir Roscoff Rovigno scientific sea water shore side Society staff station is located steamer storeroom thick tide tion trawls Trieste University Villefranche walls wide Wimereux wooden zoological laboratory
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Page 10 - Women announces the offer of an eighth prize of one thousand dollars for the best thesis written by a woman, on a scientific subject. This thesis must embody new observations and new conclusions based on independent laboratory research in biological (including psychological), chemical or physical science.
Page 282 - Thomson, and E. Ray Lankester, for the foundation of zoological stations in different parts of the globe.
Page 110 - Marvejols) before the meeting of the French Association for the Advancement of Science, at Lille, treated of the curious artificial perforations common among the neolithic skulls of the Lozere.
Page 282 - The Scottish Marine Station for Scientific Research, Granton, Edinburgh ; its Work and Prospects.
Page 168 - ... resolution was to withdraw the funds of the station from the promotion of continuous investigation by the staff and to render the directorship no longer attractive to a working investigator. This action was followed by the resignation of the director and the withdrawal of many of the scientific friends of the institution from active participation in its affairs. It is to be hoped that the committee, in charge of the station, can evolve some system of control that will insure a stable scientific...
Page 84 - Travaux Scientifiques du Laboratoire de Zoologie et de Physiologie maritime de Concarneau...
Page 155 - In the center of the exhibition room is a row of five narrow table tanks 9 feet 9 inches long, 2 feet 3 inches wide, and 1 foot 9 inches deep, with tops but 4 feet above floor level.
Page 281 - That this meeting does hereby agree to constitute itself such a Society under the title of ' The Society for the Biological Investigation of the Coasts of the United Kingdom.' " This was, he said, an effort which would have the hearty appreciation and strong support of the scientific bodies of the country. It was an important fact that the British coast was the richest area in the world for seaweeds. There was no country in the world which had contributed so much to the...
Page 190 - ... illustrated by the marine expositions at Berlin in the winter of 1897-1898, and again in the summer of 1908. The first exposition led to the establishment of a permanent marine museum and the second contributed largely to its expansion. In 1898 the German naval bureau together with the Prussian Kultus Ministerium undertook the establishment of an oceanographical institute in conjunction •with some Prussian university, plans for which were drawn up by Prof. E. v. Drygalski and E. v. Halle, with...
Page 155 - ... building, stands at a distance of 150 feet from the water front with its main axis running east and west, and fronting north, looking across the mouth of the harbor with its ruined breakwater toward picturesque Bradda Head across the bay. The station is a plain building of stone quarried on the mte, with slate roof.