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monument which will be regarded as the most remarkable 

 achievement in biological science of the nineteenth century. 

 The foundation of the famous Zoological station at Naples was 

 entirely due to his energy, ability, and devotion to science, and, 

 although it has since received financial support from foreign 

 governments — among which the English government forms a 

 notable exception, — and from many scientific societies, it was 

 Dohrn's guiding hand that led the institution to the proud 

 position it now occupies djs, facile princeps of the zoological stations 

 of the world. It is almost impossible to estimate the value of 

 the work that has been done at the station since its foundation 

 in 1872. The thirty great quarto volumes of the series entitled 

 FaiDia jt?id Flora des Golfes von Neapcl and the nineteen 

 volumes of the Mittheilutigen aus der Zoologischen Station zii 

 Neapel represent only a part of the elaborate researches that have 

 been rendered possible by the facilities afforded at the station. 

 Zoologists, botanists, and physiologists from all parts of the 

 world have been attracted to the station, and have frequently 

 published the results of the researches they have carried out, 

 amid the invigorating intellectual surroundings that the station 

 provides, in the scientific journals of their own countries. 



Such an achievement as that of Dr. Dohrn was only possible 

 for a man who combined in himself the qualities of great 

 scientific ability and strong administrative power. As a great 

 deal of bis time was necessarily occupied in the duties of 

 management and in missionary efforts to obtain the cooperation 

 and support of other countries, the amount of scientific work 

 that stands in his name is not large, but some of it, and in 

 particular his "Studien iiber Urgeschichte des Wirbclthier- 

 korpers," shows marked originality, and is of great scientific 

 value. 



Dr. Dohrn was the son of a wealthy sugar-refiner of Stettin, 

 in North Germany, himself a well-known coleopterist, who 

 encouraged his son in his zoological studies. In 1870 he was a 

 private docent in the University of Jena, where he met and 

 cultivated the friendship of Gegenbaur, Haeckel, Kleinenberg, 



