The Biological stations of EuropeU.S. Government Printing Office, 1910 - 360 pages |
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... present century much of the fisheries research was remote from practical significance , more of it was desultory and discontinuous , and all of it was utterly inadequate to establish a scientific basis for the conduct of the fisheries ...
... present century much of the fisheries research was remote from practical significance , more of it was desultory and discontinuous , and all of it was utterly inadequate to establish a scientific basis for the conduct of the fisheries ...
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... present the cooperation of eleven countries- England , Scotland , Ireland , Norway , Sweden , Finland , Russia , Denmark , Germany , Holland , and Belgium . While its biological work is mainly restricted to the practical problems of the ...
... present the cooperation of eleven countries- England , Scotland , Ireland , Norway , Sweden , Finland , Russia , Denmark , Germany , Holland , and Belgium . While its biological work is mainly restricted to the practical problems of the ...
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... present staff includes , in addition to the director , in whose hands lies the entire control of the station in its complicated external relations and manifold and multiform activities , a permanent staff of ten - a faculty , as it were ...
... present staff includes , in addition to the director , in whose hands lies the entire control of the station in its complicated external relations and manifold and multiform activities , a permanent staff of ten - a faculty , as it were ...
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... present attached to the station . The newly erected department of comparative physiology , with its profoundly important relations to human and comparative medi- cine and its superb instrumental equipment , is under the able direc- tion ...
... present attached to the station . The newly erected department of comparative physiology , with its profoundly important relations to human and comparative medi- cine and its superb instrumental equipment , is under the able direc- tion ...
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... present there are fifty tables under annual subscription . Prussia supports four tables and Bavaria , Saxony , Württemberg , Baden , Hesse , Hamburg , and the University of Strassburg each , one . The German complement of eleven tables ...
... present there are fifty tables under annual subscription . Prussia supports four tables and Bavaria , Saxony , Württemberg , Baden , Hesse , Hamburg , and the University of Strassburg each , one . The German complement of eleven tables ...
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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.