. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. 506 THE MARINE BIOLOGICAL STATIONS OF EUROPE. observations upon the l»est material sharper by criticism, most fruitful in results. It has often been remarked how large a proportion of recently published researches was dependent, directly or indirectly, upon marine laboratories. A brief account of the more important of these stations should not prove lacking' in suggestions; especially as in America the work of the marine laboratory is often
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. 506 THE MARINE BIOLOGICAL STATIONS OF EUROPE. observations upon the l»est material sharper by criticism, most fruitful in results. It has often been remarked how large a proportion of recently published researches was dependent, directly or indirectly, upon marine laboratories. A brief account of the more important of these stations should not prove lacking' in suggestions; especially as in America the work of the marine laboratory is often imperfectly understood. Its aims ha\'e been associated popularly with those of practical lish culture; and even among the trustees of universities a disposition has often been to regard an annual subscription for a work place in a summer school as among the little-needed expenditures of a biological department. So little important has a marine station seemed that the greatest difficulties have ever been encountered to insure the support of an American table at Naples, although it was well known how large a number of our inves- tigators were each year indebted to foreign courtesy for the privileges of this General interest in the advancement of pure science has in Europe become a prominent feature of the past decade, and there can be no doubt of the importance that has come to be attached to studies bearing upon the problems of life, evolution, heredity. Nor, at the same time, does it appear that matters relating to practical fisheries have in any way lost their interest or support. To these, on the contrary, the rise of pure biology has often given important aids. What has appeared abstract theory to-day has often been converted into practice to-morrow. And even so ardent a partisan of puie biology as Prof, de Lacaze- Duthiers does not hesitate to urge this, as sufficiently important in gen- eral argument, to vindicate the governmental support of the labora- tories
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