ZOOLOGICAL STATION. An institution for the study of living animals. Such stations are of three principal sorts: marine, fresh water, and inland. The first to be developed was the marine station, the great importance of the study of marine animals and the comparative expen siveness of apparatus for marine in V0stigation leading to the establishment of great laboratories on the seashore. The most famous and finest of the marine laboratories is the one founded by Anton Dolirn (q.v.) at Naples in 1870. The Berlin Academy bf Sciences and the German Gov ernment aided in building this institution, and granted it an annual subsidy of $40,000. Tables are rented by various European governments and societies and by the many educational in stitutions. In the United States the earliest zoological laboratory was that founded in 1873 by Louis Agassiz on the island of l'enekese, in Buz zard's Pay, Mass. Later Alexander Agassiz found ed a private laboratory at Castle Bill, Newport, Ti, I., and in 1577 Prof. W. K. Brooks, of Johns Hopkins University, opened a provisional labora tory first at Fort Wool, Va., then at Crisfield, 1141., and in 1880 at Beaufort. N. C. In 1859 the United States Fish Commission established a sta tion at Beaufort. The Marine Biological Labora
tory was founded at Woods Bole, Mass., by the Woman's Education Association of Boston, and in IS90 a large public marine laboratory was found ed by the United States at Cold Spring Harbor, L. I. On the Pacific Coast the Leland Stanford University has established a laboratory at Pacific Grove. In Europe there are laboratories in the Isles of Solovetsky in the White Sea, at Tromsii, Norway, and at other points on the Scandinavian peninsula: at Copenhagen, at Heligoland, at Kiel, at Saint Andrews, Scotland, at Port Erin (Isle of Man), at Plymouth, at Wimereux (near Boulogne), at Saint-Vaastla-Hogue (Tatihon Island), at Roscoff (Finistere), at Villefranche (near Nice), and at many other points. Fresh water zoological stations in America include those established at Havana, on the Illinois River. by the Illinois State Laboratory of Natu ral History; on Winona Lake, by the University of Indiana; at Sandusky, Ohio, on Lake Erie, by the Ohio State University: and at Put-in-Bay, on Lake Erie, by the United States Govern ment. See LABORATORY.