Scottish Association for Marine Science

The Association was founded in 1884 by Sir John Murray following the Challenger expedition. The Scottish Marine Station, as it was then known, was established in Granton, outside Edinburgh and was the first marine research station in Scotland. It grew quickly and over the next 10 years began a gradual transfer of activities to Millport on the Isle of Cumbrae on the west coast. In 1894, a local committee undertook fundraising in order to construct a building onshore that was completed in 1897. In 1901 the committee transformed itself into the Marine Biological Association of the West of Scotland by adopting a formal constitution. After 80 years of investigations of the Firth of Clyde area…