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is brought about by the stimulation of the electric nerve, which in turn 

 acts upon very minute electric rods that release the electricity. 



Above the aquarium is the library. In the north room are found 

 in complete series all the most important biological journals. In the 

 south room are the separate volumes, monographs and authors' reprints. 

 The current numbers of journals and the latest publications from all 

 parts of the world are found upon central tables. The classification 

 and arrangement of the books is simple and the card-catalogue complete. 

 Each worker is given cards bearing his special number in the general 

 list and he inserts one of these cards in the place of the book desired. 

 Dr. Schoebel, the librarian, is always ready with assistance in case of 

 need. On the walls are notable frescoes by Hans v. Marees, one of the 

 group of four especial friends of Dohrn when, in 1871, he was Privat- 

 dozent at the University of Jena. In the fresco on the east wall, Dohrn 

 and these four friends, the biologist Kleinenberg, Charles Grant, the 

 author of " Tales of Naples and the Camorra," the artist himself and 

 the sculptor Hildebrand, are represented as grouped about a table at 

 the ruins of the Palazzo di Donn' Anna on the Posilipo. In two other 

 scenes, first Neapolitan fishermen are carrying the net from the shore 

 and launching their boat and then four stalwart fishermen are rowing, 

 standing in their characteristic manner and bending forward with each 

 push upon the oar. On the south wall three ages of man are repre- 



ECHINODERMS AND ANEMONES. 



