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THE Scottish Marine Biological Association's annual report on the work of its laboratory at Mill-port on the Firth of Clyde, for the year 1931-32, has recently been issued (Glasgow: 185 St. Vincent Street). The Association is to be congratulated on the large measure of success which is attending the important though highly specialised researches upon which its small staff of four is actively engaged. Their work has received high commendation from H.M. Development Commissioners and other interested organisations well qualified to assess its value. Over and above the important work on Calanus fmmarchicus (see NATURE of June 10, p. 843) which is being done, the results of a considerable number of other researches carried out by the station staff and visiting workers have been published in the course of the year. Chief among these must be mentioned several important memoirs by Miss Marshall, Mr. Orr, and Dr. Nicholls, embodying the results of their researches while members of the Australian Great Barrier Reef Expedition of 1928-29. In common with all other organisations in Great Britain and other countries, the Millport Laboratory has been adversely affected by the present economic depression. The block grant originally voted to it by H.M. Treasury —on condition that a proportional sum be raised independently from other sources —was considerably cut down, and the local contributions fell short of the required amount by fully £100. It is greatly to be hoped that the state of financial stringency which still exists will not be allowed unduly 'to restrict the activities of this and similar institutions.
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Scottish Marine Biological Station, Millport. Nature 131, 904 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/131904c0
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