Word: coasts
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...systems of zoological stations, one in which the stations are connected with the different universities, the other of a more cosmopolitan character, offering opportunity for research to students of every kind coming from every portion of the world. Thirty years ago there was not a place on the sea coast where marine zoology could be studied, excepting in a private way. At present the most important stations are situated on the North Sea and on the Mediterranean...
...French stations are all connected in the same way with special universities. The Sarbonne has two stations, one off the west coast of Spain and another in the English Channel. The station at Marseilles is perhaps the most interesting, as it is situated right in a university town...
...necessary for purposes of defense. - (a) Extensive seaboard 16,000 miles and Alaska. - (b) Increasing commerce: U. S. Report on Commerce, 1894. - (c) Inadequate coast defenses: Gualtrough. - (d) International complications can not be avoided. - (1) Chile. - (2) Samoa. - (3) Hawaii. - (4) Nicaragua. - (5) Great Britain as to Behring Sea. - (6) Spain as to Cuba. - (e) Monroe Doctrine should be enforced...
...Coast defenses alone are inadequate: Bartlett in Cong...
...Money may be better spent. - (a) Encouragement of commerce. - (b) Better diplomatic service. - (c) Reserves of ordnance: Rep. Sec. Navy, 1894, p. 16. - (d) Adequate coast defence: Cong...