Gatty Marine Laboratory

The Gatty Marine Laboratory is a science facility located in the coastal town of St Andrews in Fife, Scotland.

The laboratory was paid for by the zoologist Charles Henry Gatty (1836-1903) during his later life (1892), having no family to leave his fortune to.

[3] The Gatty Marine Laboratory has been continuously occupied except for the period between 1931 and the end of World War II.

[4] The first director, William Carmichael McIntosh, conducted pioneering work on the taxonomy of annelids and the early life histories of marine fish over more than 50 years.

In 1945-46 the Gatty (as it is informally known) received an operating budget of £50 and was used as a field station by zoologists and botanists based in the Bute Medical Building in the town centre.