Institute of Biology Completes Southern Survey Though not in the Umelight of public attention, yet of great signify cance in science and culture, is the work of the National Research Institute of Biology of the Academia Sinea, The Institute is one of five organs of similar nature in Chin, the other four being the Biological Laboratory of the Science Society of China, the Fan Memorial Institute of Biology, the Research Institute of Forestry and Botany of the National Chungshan University, and the In-suture of Zoology ond'Botany of the National Piping Academy.
Under the able guidance of Dr.
C. Wang, director of the Institute, this academic organization has achieved remarkable progress in ite work: uring the past year in discoveries the fields of oceanography, zoology and plant pathology.
The researches during the year mainly may be grouped as follows: (Q) fishery and oceanography; (2) parasitology; (3) entomology and invetebrate zoology; (4) vertebrate: zoology; (5) plant pathology, and (6) systematic botany.
In fishery and oceanography the Institue made a fishery and ocean-graphical survey of the Gulf of Po Hal and a coral survey of the Tung Sha Islands off the sea const, of Xwanglung. The survey wag undertaken between Jast June and Novem~ ber with the assistance of 0 gunboat of the Third Fleet of the Chinese Navy. The Po Hai survey covered fan area extending to the Gulf of ingtao in the east, the "Taku Bar In the west, Teingtad in the south and Peitaiho in the north. An average of 1441 nautical miles were surveyed every month, For the first, time complete data of the temperature, density, specie gravily, transparency, colour, direction, velocity, and chemical content of sea water, the distribution and migration of sea fishes, and floating life and marin meteorological conditions were obtained. They are being carefully studied by experts and the results will be published in a sortal called "Siensia."
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