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or associations may rent tables at which naturalists may work. By this 

 means the station assumed an international character and remained 

 free from governmental control, to develop under the wise direction and 

 tireless energy of its founder, unimpeded by bureaucratic interference 

 or the cumbersome machinery of a commission. At the cost of $500 a 

 year a table may be taken and allotted to investigators in succession 

 for the longer or shorter periods desired. All the resources of the 

 institution are thus available to such an occupant without cost to him- 

 self. At present fifty tables are under contract. Germany has twenty- 

 two tables, of which eleven are provided for by an imperial grant of 

 twenty thousand Marks, while, in addition, Prussia has four and 

 Bavaria, Saxony, Wurttemburg, Baden, Hessen, Hamburg and the 

 University of Strassburg, one each. Italy has twelve tables, Russia 

 four, Austria two, Hungary, Holland, Belgium, Switzerland and the 

 Roumanian Academy, each one.' In England the universities of Oxford 



Squids and Octopi, 

 Roman and Conger Eels. 



