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DR. FABIUS GROSS, who has since 1937 been lecturer in experimental zoology in the University of Edinburgh, has been appointed director of the new Marine Biological Station to be erected on the Menai Strait at Bangor. The Station, while under the immediate control of the University College of North Wales, will be managed by a committee representing the biological departments of the constituent colleges of the University of Wales, and it is likely to become a vital link in the chain of British marine stations. Apart from its function in promoting educational facilities for the students of the University and others, it will conduct and encourage research, particularly in the almost unexplored field of marine microbiology, in which botanical and zoological studies meet. It will thus be in a position to make great contributions to fundamental knowledge as well as to the practical basis of fishery research, for there can be little doubt that the food-chains which ultimately produce our fish stocks have their biological origin in the microplankton.
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Marine biological Station at Bangor : Dr. F. Gross. Nature 163, 867 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163867a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/163867a0