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Room 9, diagrams showing the saltness of the sea; samples of the sea
bottom; paintings referring to the second German polar expedition in
1869-70, by Wensel; in Room 10, models of Swinemtlnde and Heligoland.
— The following rooms contain the Biological and Fisheries Collection.
Boom 11: Sponge-fisheries of the ^Ega'an See; animal life near the South
Pole; guillemots' rock at Heligoland; animals living on reefs (coral reef
from the Red Sea). Rooms 12,13: Animal life in the North Sea. Room 14:
Capture of marine animals and use of marine products (whale-bone,
guano, mother-of-pearl, pearls, amber, etc.); three paintings by Salzmann
(Whale-fishing, Pelicans breeding on the coast of Peru, Crab-fishing on
the Oldenburg coast). Room 15: German deep-sea and longshore fishing.
In the passage to the central room (see p. 144): Models of fishermen's
huts in Finkenwerder and RUgen.
The Bahnhof Friedrich-Strasse (PL R, 23), at the corner
of the Friedrich-Str. and Georgen-Str., is the main station of the
Stadtbahn (pp. 1 and 12). On the S. side is a bronze bust, by Brunow,
of Dircksen, the builder of the Stadtbahn (1902).
Tramways (pp. 15-22) via the Dorotheen-Str. (Nos. 13, N, 0, S, and
T) and the Charlotten-Str. (Nos. 12, 18, 25, 32, 34, 43) to the Brandenburg
Gate (13, N, 0, S, T), Dbnhoff-Platz (12, 13, 18), Gendarmen-Markt (34,
43), Gesundbrunnen (34, 43, a), Gorlitz Station (12, 13, 18), Halle Gate and
Kreuzberg (34, 43), Moabit (12, 13), and Stettin Station (25, 32, 105).
Beyond the station, on the left (Nos. 139-141), is the Kaiser
Wilhelm Academy, founded in 1795 for the training of army doctors
(new building in the Invaliden-Park under construction; see p. 164).
The Friedrich-Strasse beyond the station crosses the Spree by
means of the Weidendamm Bridge (PI. R, 23). Before the bridge,
to the right, at the corner of the Weidendamm, is the Komische
Oper (p. 28), built in 1905 by Lachmann and Zauber in a modern
baroque style. In the Weidendamm and Kupfergraben are the
Barracks of the Emperor Alexander Guards Regiment, opposite
which rises the Emperor Frederick Museum (p. 96).
Beyond the Weidendamm Bridge, to the right of the Friedrich-
Str., Nos. 5-11 Ziegel-Str., are the United Clinical Institutes of
the University (for surgery and for diseases of the eye and ear;
visitors admitted on Wed., Frid., & Sun. 12-1.30), connected with
the Langenbeck-Haus, the meeting-house of the German Surgical
Society. Farther on, at Artillerie-Str. 20, is the Midwifery In¬
stitute, and beyond it, in the Monbijou-Str., the building of the
Policlinic Institute for Internal Diseases.
The Monbijou-Strasse, beginning at the Emp. Frederick Museum
(p. 96), leads to the N. to the ORANiENnuRGER-STRASSE, in which
to the left (No. 30) is the New Synagogue (PL R, 24), one of
the finest modern buildings in Berlin, begun in 1859 in a modified
Oriental style from designs by Knoblauch, and completed in 1866
under the superintendence of Stiller. The fagade, which is con¬
structed of brick with details in granite and sandstone, is very
effective in spite of its lack of width. The gilded dome attains a
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