Abstract
THE Aquarist and Pond-Keeper of January-February 1937, besides a number of other interesting papers, contains an article by Mr. Douglas P. Wilson, naturalist at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Plymouth, on the plunger jar for rearing marine organisms. This is a piece of apparatus much used in the Plymouth Laboratory, originally planned and used by Mr. E. T. Browne for rearing medusaB, the main idea being to create a definite rhythmical movement in the aquarium by means of a glass plate, the plunger, manipulated by a siphon. All workers at Plymouth are familiar with the plunger jar, and it is now used in many laboratories. Numerous well-known researches have been successfully conducted by its aid; echinoderms, molluscs, crustaceans, worms, have all been reared, and it is fit that the plunger-jar should be introduced to all those who wish to keep marine animals. Mr. Wilson, who has himself reared successfully several sea-worms from the egg, describes how this can be done.
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Rearing Marine Organisms in the Laboratory. Nature 139, 623 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139623d0
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