Abstract
THE section in the Year Book, No. 33 (1934) of the Carnegie Institution of Washington dealing with this station reports a number of workers during the season and a great variety of subjects. Although much work is done in the field, there is a notable increase from year to year in the use of apparatus requiring electric current. This will pobably necessitate the installation of a power plant of greater capacity in the future. Dr. Alan Boy den, continuing his serological studies of invertebrates, has used examples from many different phyla, including 7 molluscs, 4 arthropods, 8 echinoderms and 5 chordates. The results have been very satisfactory, and will enable light to be shed upon some of the more obscure relationships between the major groups of animals. Other researches include a study of the ecology and physiology of corals by Prof. CM. Yonge, who found that the opportunity to examine the reefs in detail was of special value in view of his previous experience with Pacific coral reefs, and Mr. J. E. Harris's observations on the swimming movements of fishes, which embrace work on the fishes in their natural surroundings besides cinematographic experiments with special relation to their fins, whilst Prof. W. H. Longley's subject is the systematics of the Tortugas fishes.
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Research in the Tortugas Laboratory. Nature 136, 580 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136580b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/136580b0