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British Marine Zoology

  • W. A. HERDMAN 

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“THE proof of the pudding is in the eating,” and surely Prof. MacBride will admit that whether a biological station is or is not suitable for research must be decided, not by the expensiveness of the equipment, but by observing whether research is being carried on there.

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