The biological stations of Europe / by Charles Atwood Kofoid.

  • Charles Atwood Kofoid
Date:
1910
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Credit: The biological stations of Europe / by Charles Atwood Kofoid. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    torius paraffin oven and a Jung microtome. Pension is provided in I the station at a monthly rate of 40 to 50 rubles. The station has from the beginning made a policy of supplying I material for research and for museum purposes to Russian institu- tions and others by special arrangement with the authorities in charge. It conducts no systematic programme of zoological or hydro- graphical exploration, though several interesting surveys of the vertical and bottom distribution of the fauna have been made by investigators at the station. The investigations carried on at the station have appeared in many journals, Russian and foreign, but since 1900 the first part of each volume of the “Travaux” of the Royal Society of Naturalists of St. Petersburg is given over to papers produced at the station. No special publication is issued by the station. The station is located on Katherina Harbor opposite the town of Alexandrovsk, north of the city of Kola on the Kola fiord, about 12 miles from the open polar sea. The station is reached via Norway, Hammerfest, and the North Cape, by weekly steamer from Vardo, running from the end of March to the end of September; also from the beginning of June to the end of September by steamer (tliree days) from Archangel, which has connections by rail with St. Petersburg and Moscow. The building stands on a barren granitic peninsula about 8 m. above sea level, facing the southeast. It is a plain but substantial wooden structure (11 by 16 m.) of two stories, of rectangular form, with central halls running part of the length of the long axis. Upon the ground floor the vestibule (2.2 by 4.5 m.) opens on the one hand to the aquarium room (4.5 by 5.5 m.) and on the other to the central hall (2 by 10 m.) leading to the dining room (4 by 6 m.). From this hall open a sorting room (4.5 by 4.5 m.) and five sleeping rooms (3.5 by 4.5 m.). From the dining room open the culinary depart- ment (4.5 by 5 m.) and another sleeping room (3 by 6 m.). Stairs ascend from the central hall to the floor above, upon which are located the two laboratory rooms (4.5 by 9 and 6.2 by 6.6 m., respec- tively) each abundantly lighted and with a row of four and five cubicals (2 by 2.5 m.) along the outer walls. Each cubical is formed by partial partitions not reaching the ceiling and is provided with a well equipped work table facing the window. A chemical labora- tory (4 by 4.5 m.) and a comfortably furnished library and museum (4.5 by 6 m.) are upon the opposite side of the hall, where are also found two additional chambers (2.2 by 4.5) for the assistants. A storeroom (3 by 3 m.) and a dark room (1.5 by 3 m.) for photographic work are placed over the aquarium room in the projecting ell formed by that part of the building.