Excerpt from American Hydroids: Part 1, the Plumularide E With Thirthy-Four PlatesMy own investigations were carried on mainly in the Marine Biological Laboratory, Plymouth, England; the Naples Zoological Station, Naples, Italy; the Laboratory of the U. S. Fish Commis sion, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, and at Dr. Alexander Agassiz's private laboratory, Newport, Rhode Island. At all of these places material and equipment were abundant, and the facilities for studying living hydroids all that could be desired.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.