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the direction of a member of the scientific staff, who is at the same time 

 devoting his life to research in his own special field of natural history. 

 At present the staff is organized as follows : Professor Dr. Mayer and 

 Dr. Gross, morphology ; Dr. Burian, comparative physiology ; Dr. Henze, 

 chemistry; Dr. Gast, the museum. One of the founder's first associates, 

 Professor Dr. Eisig, now enjoying the benefit of the station's pension 

 system, is still pursuing his life-work upon the annelids. The veteran 

 secretary, Hermann Linden, assists in looking after the voluminous 

 correspondence, and the local business with the city authorities, the 

 railway, post and customs. A trained engineer and assisting machin- 

 ists care for the electric motors, steam-engines, pumps and complicated 

 network of gas, salt- and fresh-water pipes. In an especially equipped 

 workshop a trained mechanic makes the instruments for experimental 

 investigations. Dr. Lo Bianco developed beyond rivalry the depart- 

 ment for the supply of animals and plants, either living for exhibition 

 in the aquarium, or for the many workers in the various laboratories, 

 or as perfectly preserved specimens for museums and investigators 

 all over the world. Since the recent death of Dr. Lo Bianco his former 

 assistant Sig. Santorelli has taken charge of this department. For 

 collecting there is a fleet of well-manned boats, including the steamers 

 Johannes Miiller and Francis Balfour supplied with steam winding- 

 reel for the dredges and trawls, and all sorts of nets and other neces- 

 sary apparatus. 



In 1885 Dohrn elaborated a plan of a floating laboratory for the 

 extension of the work in marine biology. For this purpose a war-ship 

 is too expensive to maintain and too ill adapted to the needs of inves- 

 tigation besides generally involving political and other interests dis- 

 tracting to biological research. An ordinary steamship would not be 

 much better, so Dohrn planned a specially constructed and well-equipped 



View of the Library, looking West. 



