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AS announced last week, Mr. G. W. Duff Assheton-Smith, of Vaynol Park, Bangor, who has for many years taken a warm interest in the zoological department of the University College of North Wales, has offered a site to the College for a marine zoological station, on condition that the maintenance of the station when erected is assured. The fine zoological collection at the College bears ample testimony to Mr. Assheton-Smith's interest, as he has frequently enriched it with valuable specimens from his menagerie at Vaynol. The site spoken of is on the Menai Straits, about midway between Bangor and the suspension bridge. Sheltered and beautifully situated, it is from every point of view the best site in the locality on which to place such an institution. Besides giving the site with his rights to the foreshore, Mr. Assheton-Smith will also give the necessary facilities of access through his property. In the laboratory, aquarium and enclosures, which will be features of the station, investigations and experiments in connection with our fisheries will be instituted and carried out. The Menai Straits possess a peculiarly rich fauna, and material is always available for investigation and experimental purposes.
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Marine Biology in Wales . Nature 66, 282–283 (1902). https://doi.org/10.1038/066282a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/066282a0