THE GREATEST BIOLOGICAL STATION. 



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fairl}' claim to have been for the last quarter-century a great inter- 

 national meeting ground of biologists, and so to have exercised a stimu- 

 lating and coordinating influence upon biological research which it 

 would be difficult to overestimate. 



The success of the institution has caused constant additions and has 

 stimulated the staff to fresh undertakings. To the original aquarium 

 and zoological laboratories a second building mainly for botany and 

 physiology and the preparation of specimens was soon added; and it is 

 said that a third is in contemplation. In the meantime additional ac- 

 commodation has been obtained during the last decade by a rearrange- 

 ment of the roof of the main building. This gives space for a second 

 large zoological laboratory, a supplementary library and various smaller 

 rooms, used as chemical and physiological laboratories, for photography 



Landing Place of the Fisherman at Posilipo, Naples. 



and for bacteriology. A good deal of the research in recent years, both 

 on the part of those occupying work-tables and of the permanent staff, 

 has been in the direction of comparative physiology, experimental em- 

 bryology and the bacteriology of sea-water, and all necessary facilities 

 for such work are now provided. 



The laboratories contain accommodation for over fifty scientifie men 

 to work, and each such work-place, known technically as a 'table,' 

 consists either of a small room or of an alcove or a portion screened off 

 from a larger room. Such tables are rented at £100 a year, not to in- 

 dividuals, but to states or universities or committees, and of the fifty- 

 five tables at present available about thirty-four are permanently 

 engaged — thus Ininging in a considerable annual subsidy to the ad- 



