scholarly journals The Scottish Marine Biological Association

1949 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-96 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Financial Aid ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Premature Death ◽  
Biological Association ◽  
Marine Biological ◽  
Marine Biological Association ◽  
Pelagic Eggs ◽  
Marine Station ◽  
Working Out ◽  
Eggs And Larvae

The Scottish Marine Biological Association has a historical link with the Royal Society through the Challenger Expedition which took place in response to representations by the Council of the Society. Its inspirer and director was Professor Charles Wyville Thomson of Edinburgh, and the administrative centre for the working out of its results was situated in that city. After Wyville Thomson’s premature death in 1882 his place was taken by the senior naturalist of the expedition John Murray. In addition to his work as Head of the Challenger Office, Murray, with the financial aid of many personal friends, founded the small Scottish Marine Station built at the margin of a submerged quarry at Granton and having as tender a small yacht the Medusa , fully equipped with sounding and dredging apparatus, and a floating barge laboratory the Ark . The activities of the station under its superintendent J. T. Cunnings ham were directed specially towards fishery problems—the spawning grounds of the herring, the pelagic eggs and larvae of the other food fishes, and that special enemy of the line fishermen, the hagfish Myxine .

VI.—A Contribution to Actinian Morphology: the Genera Phellia and Sagartia

1929 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. A. Stephenson
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Structural Data ◽  
Serial Sections ◽  
Sea Anemones ◽  
Biological Association ◽  
Marine Biological ◽  
Marine Biological Association

The most serious gap in our knowledge of the anatomy of the British Actiniaria has been the almost complete absence of structural data referring to the genus Phellia. The present paper deals with all the British species belonging to this genus, and adds some notes on other forms.I wish to make the following acknowledgments. I have received a grant from the Royal Society, which has rendered possible the work described. I am indebted to my wife for preparing serial sections of the species of Phellia, and for drawing text-figs. 2, 3, 5, and 8. I also wish to thank Miss E. M. Stephenson for text-figs. 1, 9, and 10. Text-figs. 1, 6, 7, 11, and 12 have been reproduced before in my Ray Society Monograph on the British Sea Anemones (and text-fig. 12 in the Journal of the Marine Biological Association also), but their repetition here is essential for the demonstration of the several points which they illustrate.

Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom Report of the Council for 1963–64

1964 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 807-836
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Nobel Prize ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Vice President ◽  
Great Pleasure ◽  
Biological Association ◽  
Marine Biological ◽  
Marine Biological Association ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
New Research

The Council have to report with regret the deaths of Captain V. Lord, a member of the Association's staff for 28 years and well known to many workers at the laboratory as skipper of S.S. ‘Salpa’; and of Cdr. C. A. Hoodless, D.S.C., R.N.R. who was Master of R.V. ‘Sabella’ from 1948 to 1953 when he was appointed Master of the Association's new research vessel ‘Sarsia’. Cdr. Hoodless was an able and skilful seaman and did much for marine science. His burial took place at sea from R.V. ‘Sarsia’ on 16 March 1964.The Council record with great pleasure the award of the 1963 Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine to Prof. A. L. Hodgkin, F.R.S., and Prof. A. F. Huxley, F.R.S. Both have been visiting research workers at the Plymouth laboratory and Prof. Hodgkin has served many times on the Council of the Association.The Council and OfficersDuring the year Major E. G. Christie-Miller resigned from his position as a Representative Governor on the Council of the Association since 1941. Major Christie-Miller gave devoted service to the Association as Honorary Treasurer from 1941 to 1956, and had been a Vice-President since 1951.Col. Sir John Carew Pole, Bt., D.S.O., T.D., has been nominated by the Fishmongers' Company in his place.Four ordinary meetings of the Council were held during the year, two in the rooms of the Royal Society, one in the rooms of the Linnean Society and one at Plymouth. At these the average attendance was seventeen.

scholarly journals The Plymouth laboratory of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

1948 ◽  
Vol 192 (1029) ◽  
pp. 143-155
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Biological Association ◽  
Marine Biological ◽  
Marine Biological Association ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Fundamental Research ◽  
Invertebrate Physiology ◽  
The Times

In The Times of 31 March 1884, it was announced that a meeting would be held that day in the rooms of the Royal Society for founding a society having for its purpose ‘the establishment and maintenance of a well-equipped laboratory at a suitable point on the English coast, similar to, if not quite so extensive as, Dr Dohm’s Zoological Station at Naples’ (M.B.A. 1887 a ). With Professor T. H. Huxley in the chair a gathering of distinguished gentlemen gave reasons why such a laboratory should be built. All stressed what its value would be from the purely scientific viewpoint, and all were agreed that both by fundamental research and by more direct investigations on our food fishes, knowledge of economic import would be gained. The last speaker, Mr George J. Romanes, said that there was one function of the proposed laboratory which had not received the attention it appeared to deserve; he meant the investigation of invertebrate physiology. ‘In the invertebrate forms of fife’, he said, ‘we saw life in its simplest shape, and in the shape which best admitted of observation and experiment, with the view of throwing light upon most of the great questions relating to the processes of life’ (M.B.A. 1887 b ).

Live protist curation at the Scottish Association for Marine Science, 1884–2017

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 267-282 ◽  
Author(s):  
John G. Day ◽  
Michael Francis Turner
Keyword(s):  
Culture Collection ◽  
Ex Situ ◽  
Marine Science ◽  
Microbial Biodiversity ◽  
Biological Association ◽  
Marine Biological ◽  
The Past ◽  
Marine Biological Association ◽  
Marine Station ◽  
Cultivation Techniques

Understanding and exploiting marine microbial biodiversity is a huge task. Integral to this is the capacity to identify and maintain exemplar taxa ex situ, so that they may be studied or utilized. This paper focuses on protists, primarily photosynthetic protists, including microalgae and macroalgae, as well as the prokaryotic cyanobacteria. It draws together the strands of activities undertaken by scientists in the fields of taxonomy, systematics and algal cultivation associated with the Scottish Association for Marine Science at Oban and its predecessors: the Scottish Marine Station, originally located on a converted lighter, The Ark, in a flooded quarry in Granton near Edinburgh, then subsequently at Millport on the Clyde; the Marine Biological Association – West Scotland at Millport; and the Scottish Marine Biological Association, founded in 1914, initially at Millport and subsequently at Dunstaffnage, Oban. The work undertaken is interwoven with the historical status and development of protistan curation over the past 130 years. The paper also examines the inter-linkages of the organization with the development of cultivation techniques and the provision of biological resources from 1914 by the then newly established Scottish Marine Biological Association to the Culture Collection of Algae and Protozoa today. Finally, we briefly outline current developments that will influence the curation and scientific exploitation of these diverse organisms in the future.

The functional morphology of the genitalia of the spermato-phore-producing monogenean parasite Diplectanum aequans (Wagener) Diesing, with a note on the copulation of the parasite

Parasitology ◽  
1966 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 367-383 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. E. Paling
Keyword(s):  
Functional Morphology ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Biological Significance ◽  
Functional Interpretation ◽  
Monogenean Parasite ◽  
Biological Association ◽  
Marine Biological ◽  
Marine Biological Association ◽  
Special Studies ◽  
Spermatophore Production

The genitalia of Diplectanum aequans (Wagener) Diesing are described and a functional interpretation is postulated.Spermatophores are produced from a pair of diffuse glands lying laterally amidst the vitellaria. The secretion from these glands is stored in an anterior reservoir, across the centre of which is a viscous disk which delineates two internal chambers.Each spermatophore has an elongated stalk and an ovoid head and is considered to be moulded in a muscular bulb and in the penis, prior to extrusion through the penis.The penis is composed of two concentric tubes and it has a slight hook at its distal end. The vagina has a glandular base and muscular lips. Its internal cast corresponds to the shape of the penis tip.Copulation in D. aequans is described.The occurrence and biological significance of spermatophore production in animals are discussed.I would like to acknowledge the help given to me by the Director and Staff of the Marine Biological Association Laboratory and also by the Proprietors of Cook and Sons Ltd., of Salcombe, Devon. I am most grateful to Dr J. Llewellyn for much helpful advice throughout the course of this study.The work was conducted during the tenure of a D.S.I.R. Studentship and includes the results of special studies made possible by a grant from The Browne Fund of The Royal Society.

Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.Report of the Council for 1952–53

1953 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 527-548
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Honorary Member ◽  
Milling Machine ◽  
Vice Presidents ◽  
Biological Association ◽  
Marine Biological ◽  
Marine Biological Association ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
Polyprion Americanus

PatronThe Council has pleasure in reporting that His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh, K.G., has graciously consented to become Patron of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.The Council and OfficersFour meetings of the Council have been held during the year, three in the rooms of the Royal Society and one at Plymouth. At these the average attendance was seventeen. The Association is indebted ‘to the Council of the Royal Society for the use’of its rooms.The Council has to record with regret the deaths of two Vice-Presidents, Viscount Astor and Dr W. T. Calman, C.B., F.R.S.; of Dr Th. Mortensen, an Honorary Member of the Association; and of Prof. J. H. Orton, F.R.S., sometime member of Council and for many years a member of the Staff of the Plymouth laboratory.Thé Plymouth LaboratoryFollowing the completion last year of the building of the laboratory for research with radioactive substances, the opportunity has been taken of paving the area between this laboratory and the main building with concrete.The facilities of the main workshop have been improved by the purchase of a milling machine.The Council is grateful to the Development Commissioners for the supply of a new Morris 10 cwt. truck.The AquariumThroughout the summer months the aquarium was crowded with visitors, and their appreciation and interest is reflected in the sale of large numbers of the aquarium guide book. Tanks have been stocked to capacity, perhaps the most notable exhibits being the wreck-fish {Polyprion americanus), mentioned in last year's report and now in fine condition, and about twenty boar-fish {Capros aper), which make an especially colourful display.

scholarly journals The Plymouth Laboratory of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

1948 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 761-774 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. S. Russell
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Biological Association ◽  
Marine Biological ◽  
Marine Biological Association ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Fundamental Research ◽  
Forms Of Life ◽  
Invertebrate Physiology ◽  
The Times

In The Times of 31 March 1884, it was announced that a meeting would be held that day in the rooms of the Royal Society for founding a society having for its purpose ‘the establishment and maintenance of a well-equipped laboratory at a suitable point on the English coast, similar to, if not quite so extensive as, Dr Dohrn's Zoological Station at Naples’ (M.B.A., 1887a). With Prof. T. H. Huxley in the chair a gathering of distinguished gentlemen gave reasons why such a laboratory should be built. All stressed what its value would be from the purely scientific viewpoint, and all were agreed that both by fundamental research and by more direct investigations on our food fishes, knowledge of economic import would be gained. The last speaker, Mr George J. Romanes, said that there was one function of the proposed laboratory which had not received the attention it appeared to deserve; he meant the investigation of invertebrate physiology. ‘In the invertebrate forms of life’, he said, ‘we saw life in its simplest shape, and in the shape which best admitted of observation and experiment, with the view of throwing light upon most of the great questions relating to the processes of life’ (M.B.A., 1887b).

scholarly journals The Plymouth laboratory of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

1947 ◽  
Vol 135 (878) ◽  
pp. 12-25 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Biological Association ◽  
Marine Biological ◽  
Marine Biological Association ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Fundamental Research ◽  
Forms Of Life ◽  
Invertebrate Physiology ◽  
The Times

In The Times of 31 March 1884, it was announced that a meeting would be held that day in the rooms of the Royal Society for founding a society having for its purpose ‘the establishment and maintenance of a well-equipped laboratory at a suitable point on the English coast, similar to, if not quite so extensive as, Dr Dohrn’s Zoological Station at Naples’ (M. B. A. 1887 a ). With Professor T. H. Huxley in the chair a gathering of distinguished gentlemen gave reasons why such a laboratory should be built. All stressed what its value would be from the purely scientific viewpoint, and all were agreed that both by fundamental research and by more direct investigations on our food fishes, knowledge of economic import would be gained. The last speaker, Mr George J. Romanes, said that there was one function of the proposed laboratory which had not received the attention it appeared to deserve; he meant the investigation of invertebrate physiology. ‘In the inverte­brate forms of life’, he said, ‘we saw life in its simplest shape, and in the shape which best admitted of observation and experiment, with the view of throwing light upon most of the great questions relating to the processes of life’ (M. B. A. 1887 b ). As a result of this meeting a corporate society, the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, came into being. It was decided that the laboratory should be built at Plymouth where a rich and varied fauna was available. The building, which was opened on 30 June 1888 (M. B. A. 1888), is situated under the walls of Charles II’s Citadel in a commanding position overlooking the waters of Plymouth Sound.

scholarly journals Flora of Plymouth Sound and Adjacent Waters. Preliminary Paper

1890 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 286-305 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Marine Algae ◽  
Detailed Examination ◽  
Full Account ◽  
Biological Association ◽  
Marine Biological ◽  
Marine Biological Association ◽  
New Localities ◽  
Government Grant

A Government grant by the Royal Society enabled me to spend the months of August and September of 1889, in the investigation of unknown or obscure points in the marine algæ, in the Laboratory of the Marine Biological Association, Plymouth. One of my chief objects was to obtain such material of the various members of the Gigartinaceæ, of Spyridia, Stenogramme, and other genera, as would permit me to make a detailed examination of the development of the fruit (cystoearp) from the earliest stage to maturity. Several of the genera required were very rare or of unknown locality, and in many cases only to be found by dredging. In searching for these, new weeds, or new localities for known weeds, were met with, and it seemed to me the notes I made would be of use to algologists. Cocks, Hore, Boswarva, Gatcombe, &c, and of late years Holmes, have combined in their work to give a very full account of the marine algæ to be met with without the use of the dredge. For twenty years Cocks, I am told, did not miss a single low tide at Plymouth (or, if not, Falmouth). Up to the present our knowledge of the weeds of Plymouth has been derived almost entirely from shore-hunting, some of the rarest weeds being described as washed ashore, so that it was a question as to whether such weeds were locally established or merely “drift” specimens. In 1867 Boswarva published his Flora of Plymouth Sound in the Transactions of the Plymouth Athenaeum, his catalogue being compiled from the discoveries of himself, Cocks, &c. This list appears word for word in the Marine Biological Association Journal, No. 2, 1888. I am permitted by Mr. Holmes to say that through a misunderstanding he is stated to give the names of eight additional species.

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