American Summer Zoological Stations

Abstract

IN the United States there has been during the past ten A years a great increase in the advantages for the study of zoology. Not only has this increase been manifested in the colleges, but also by the facilities for summer study at the sea-shore. At present we have on the Atlantic coast five stations where there are facilities for students to carry on investigations. These laboratories are of two kinds—one where only the advanced student is allowed to study, the other in which any one manifesting a sufficient interest in Nature may be allowed a chance to work upon the marine animals; these latter are themselves divisible into two classes—one in which regular instruction is given, and the other where the student is supposed to study for himself under the direction of an efficient instructor.