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MARINE laboratories are now recognised as essential to the progress of biology. The facilities they offer the collector and the investigator cannot be overrated, and it would be an excellent thing if institutions could be conducted on similar lines in every branch of science. Mr. Bashford Dean, in the American Naturalist of July, gives an illustrated description of marine laboratories in Europe, which is so interesting that a large portion of it is here reprinted. The description of the Marine Biological Station at Plymouth is omitted owing to the fact that a detailed account has already appeared in these columns (vol. xxxviii. p. 198, 1888). Mr. Dean prefaces his report as follows:—
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European Laboratories of Marine Biology. Nature 48, 404–406 (1893). https://doi.org/10.1038/048404a0
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