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Dr. Hollandt, in charge of the microscopic sections department — all of them 

 well-known men, each eminent in his own line of investigation. 



The post of assistant in the physiological department formerly held by the 

 late Dr. Schoenlein is now vacant. 



3. In addition to these scientific heads of departments there are: — the 

 secretary, Mr. Linden, two painters, and the chief engineer; and, finally, about 

 thirty attendants, collectors and others employed, in the laboratories, in the 

 collecting and preserving departments, in the aquarium and elsewhere. 



This may seem at the first thought a very hirge staff, but the activi- 

 ties of the institution are most varied and far-reaching, and eveiy thing 

 that is undertaken is carried to a high standard of perfection. 

 Whether it he in the exposition of living animals to the public in the 

 wonderful tanks of the 'Acquario,' in the collection and preparation of 

 choice specimens for museums, in the supply of laboratory material and 

 mounted microscopic objects to universities, in the facilities afforded 



The Zoological Station from the Edge of the Sea. 



for research, or in the educational influence and inspiration which all 

 young workers in the laboratory feel — in each and all of these directions 

 the Naples station has a world-wide renown. And the best proof of 

 this reputation for excellence is seen in the long list of biologists from 

 all civilized countries who year after year obtain material from the 

 station or enroll as workers in the laboratory. Close on 1,200 natural- 

 ists have now, since the opening of the zoological station in 1873, 

 occupied work-tables, and, as these men have come from and gone back 

 to practically all the important laboratories of the world, Naples may 



