Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 May 2009
No general description of the Plymouth Laboratory of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom has been published since that of Allen & Harvey (1928). Some information was, however, given by Russell (1947, 1948) in a survey of the work of the Association, and detailed accounts of the old and new aquarium and sea-water circulations were written by Wilson (1952, 1960).
Since 1928 there have been very considerable alterations and additions to the laboratory and, now that the major building extension has been completed, the time is opportune for a new descriptive account of the buildings and research facilities.