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The Proposed Zoological Station at Sydney. 



By N. De Miklouho-Maclay. 



No one to whom the progress of Biology is not a matter of 

 indifference, will be surprised that I again take up the subject 

 of the foundation of a Zoological Station in Sydney. It is an 

 Institution too important for all branches of Biology for the idea 

 to be dropped. 



That the urgent necessity of the matter is already understood, 

 and the idea here and there is coming to a practical issue, witness 

 the Zoological Stations in Europe and America, about the 

 institution of which news has appeared in various periodicals 

 since the 26th of August last year, when I first had the honor to 

 direct the' attention of the Society to this subject. [Vide 

 " Nature," August 29th, 1878.] 



Some days ago I had the pleasure of reading in "Nature" 

 ( ) a communication concerning the Zoological 



Station in Naples. I am very much pleased that it has fallen to 

 the lot of my friend, Dr. A. Dohrn, to have made himself in so 

 high a degree useful to science. It is in truth a splendid result; 

 about a hundred investigators have availed themselves of this 

 opportunity to prosecute scientific investigations, of which, had this 

 opportunity not offered itself, but few would have been carried 

 out. So much the more must one treasure such a service as it is 

 so far removed from egotism, and is the outcome of honest love 

 of science, and a proper understanding of its needs. 



The same scheme with which I came before the Linnean 

 Society five and a half months ago, I have also sent to Japan to 

 the German Eastern- Asiatic Society, and propose also sending it 

 to M. A. Godeffroy in Samoa, and I have reason to believe that 

 my proposals will not be without result in both places. The 



