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THE SEAS
ban‘0nly be done by a resident stàñ. For the collection
of
'specimens and Water‘samples, there is a converted steam
drifter (Plate 97) and a powerful motor boat manned by
appropriate crews.
As many as ' forty workers can be
accommodated in the researcn laboratories which are
equipped with experimental tanks with circulating sea
water, and there is a very ne library.
To describe the many other marine stations Wh10h 'are
dotted round the coasts of Europe would be a long business.
In this country, the Ministry of Fisheries has a large laboratory at Lowestoft for the investigation of problems
concerned: with sh and & smaller one at Conway for the
study of shellsh ; there are marine stations at Port Erin
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and Cullercoats attached to the Universities of Liverpool
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and Durham respectively, while in Scotland is the marine
laboratory of the Fishery Board at. Aberdeen and of the
Scottish Marine Biological Association at Millport on the
Clyde.
111 spite of her sparse population, Norway has produced
a_great volume of valuable oceanographical research, a fact
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which is explained by the overwhelming importance of
her sheries.
The principal marine stations are at Bergen
and Trondhjem, the latter being ideally situated for
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research on deep water life, for the steamer attached to
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the stationis able to dredge in the fj ords to depths of over
5oo fathoms;
Sweden poSsesses' a delightfully situated
station at Kristineberg on the Gullmars Fjord in the
Kattegat, consisting—of a stone winter laboratory, a wooden
one for summer use, and a number of houses for the accom—
modation
of the sta and visitors. The Danish biological
station has its headqu'arters at Copenhagen but the staff
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mOve about in the research steamer.
The Germans possess
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3; station well situated on“ the Island of Heligoland,‘ the
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Dutch one at Helder at the—mouth of the Zuider Zee, while