Evening journal., 1897-06-04
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
A New York Expedition Goes to
Study It's Marine Life
TO ESTABLISH A SOUTHERN STATION.
II Is Proposed to Maintain Laboratory
to lie Open to Any Ono Who
Wishes to study Trop-
ical Life.


New York, June 4.-Professor Charles
l.. Bristol, Of the biological depart
ment of New York university. has
started for the Bermudas at the head OF
an expedition which viii make a sci
entific reconnaissance of the islands
during the next two months
The expedition is for the collection Of
specimens of tlss marine life of the trop-
les, but principally to select a site for
the building of a permanent station for
laboratory work.
Professor Bristol has decided that
such a station is necessary to secure the
best results in the work of his depart
ment Of the university.
1t is the intention to throw the labor
atory open to every scientist who cares
20 Investigate the wealth Of tropical life
found in the Bermudas. Such facilities
for study have heretofore been lack
ing, and Professor Bristol Is confident
that the laboratory will prove OF the
greatest advantage in the advancement
OF biological investigation in the United
States.
To Erect buildings.
1t is the intention to erect two-story
building at the most convenient site
The lower floor VIII contain the tank
room and aquarium, the upper the
workrooms. The present expedition is
well supplied with apparatus and pre-
servative materials. and Professor Bris-
tol hopes to bring back a rich load Of
! biologic truck for the university
museum for classroom dissection and
for exchange with other colleges. Part
OF the collection viii be placed I'm the
American Museum Of Natural History
in Central park
Those who sailed with Professor Bris-
tol on the steamship Orinoco are DIR.
Tarleton II. Bean, superintendent Of the
New York City aquarium, who goes 70
study fishes; Or. Walter NJ. Rankin Of
Princeton university. who will study
mollusks and crustaceans. Warren Fl
Everett, an instructor of New York
university; c. f. Brush Jr.. 90; +. w
Carpenter 80: Mr.. Rosenthel 1900
Robert Brown, 1900. and II. Il. Grose
Jr. They win be Joined later by Johr
ID. Briggs, Jr., 9S NJ. ID. Gates, ~, ant
Mr.. Haycock OF Harvard.
General Hastings Interested.
General Russell Hastings. who com
manded the regiment in which Presi
dent Mckinley served during the war
is interested i'm the scheme to establish
a permanent station. He has offere,
the university his assistance toward Sc
curing a site. General Hastings and hi
wife have lived some years in the Ber
mudas where he is a large landowner
Both are enthusiastic students Of plan
and animal life. II was Mrs. Hasting
, who first introduced into the islands tn
Easter lily, which has since become on
Of their principal articles of export.
Professor Bristol says that the Be-
mudas hold forth peculiar attraction
TO the student Of the marine life Of th
American tropics There Is but one bic
= logical station of this sort on the whoi
Atlantic coastal Woods Hin, Cap
Cod. a resort for teachers and studen;
of biology from all over the country
q ! The work done there has accomplishe
much for the advancement of science
But there win be no rivalry betwee
n ! Woods Hill and the Bermuda station.
AT Cape Cod the only forms of M
available for study are those OF arcti
. and temperate coast lines. exCeptin
occasional pelagic specimens driven
by heavy winds. The Bermudas. o
the other hand. mark the most norther
limit of purely tropical life, as show
r by the coral growths.
The only previous attempts made
= study the fauna Of the southern Altar
j. tic have been made by the summer es
e petitions sent out by Johns Hopkir
d university. These were only during tf
= summer months, and their effectiveness
l. was necessarily handicapped on tn
I. account and from lack OF apparatt
Al and chemicals Yet they yielded spler
It did results, Professor Bristol says.