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for convenience, been placed in a small adjacent building. The director 

 of this station is Prof. Hoek, and the president of the society is Prof. 

 Hiibrecht. 



IV. — NAPLES. 



The Stazione Zoologica at Naples dnring the past twenty years has 

 earned its reputation as the center of marine biological work, publishing 

 in its MitiliciliiiKjen the results of its researches, and in its Jdhrsbericltte 

 a snuimary of the year's contributions to biological sciences. It has 

 afforded a locality most favorable for marine research, and has offered 

 every convenience for continued studies; it has been the supply center 

 for living and preserved material for the majority of the European 

 universities; it has published the results of its investigations in its 

 monographs and bulletin in a way that has left little to be desired; 

 the range of its researches has been of the Avidest and most varied 

 interest, botanical, zoological, developmental, physiological, morpho- 

 logical. Indeed it may strictly be said that within an equal period of 

 time it has contributed more to the advancement of pure biology than 

 has any other institution in tlie world. 



The success of the Naples station has doubtless been aided by the 

 ricliuess of the fauna of the gulf, but is mainly and unquestionably 

 due to its energetic and careful administration. The director of the 

 station. Prof Dohrn, deserves no little gratitude from every worker in 

 science for his untiring efforts in securing its foundation and system- 

 atic management. Partly by his private generosity and partly by the 

 financial support he obtained, the original or eastern building was 

 constructed. Its annual nuuntenance was next assured by the aid he 

 obtained throughout (mainly) Gernuiny and Austria. By the leasing 

 of work tables to be used by the representatives of universities a 

 sufficient income was maintained to carry on the work of the station 

 most efiBcieutly. A gift by the German Government of a small steam 

 launch added not a little to the collecting facilities. 



Attractiveness is one of the striking features of the Naples station. 

 It has nothing of the dusty, uncomfortable, gloomy air of the average 

 university laboratory. Its situation is one of the brightest; it has the 

 gulf directly in front, about it the city gardens rich in palm trees and 

 holm oaks. Tlie building itself rises out of beds of century plant and 

 cactus like a white palace; the fashionable driveway alone sei)arates 

 it from the water's edge. In full view is the island of Capri, to the 

 eastward is Vesuvius — a bright and restful picture to one who leaves 

 his work for a five minutes' stroll on the long covered balcony which 

 looks out over the sea. 



The student, in fact, knows the Naples station before he visits it, 

 although he can hardly anticipate the busy and profitable stay that 

 there awaits him. He has received the circular from the secretarjy of 

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