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Lankester, and others. It was there that he conceived the idea 

 of his great zoological station, which he fortunately lived to see 

 accomplished on such a magnificent scale. Lankester tells us 

 that at first his intention was to place the laboratory on the 

 south coast of France, but the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian 

 war necessitated an alteration of this plan, and after much 

 deliberation and endless difificulties the station was erected at 

 Naples. 



Dohrn was a man of very charming personality, and he 

 gained the respect and admiration of those who worked in the 

 laboratory. Some few zoologists have perhaps gained a greater 

 reputation for their scientific work, but probably no one has 

 ever enjoyed so much personal esteem. Whereas all zoologists 

 of every nationality owe to him a debt of gratitude for the 

 valuable services rendered to the biological sciences, there are 

 several young Englishmen who have received at his hands the 

 timely help and generous hospitality which often turn the 

 scales of a man's career. If Dohrn had done no more for our 

 countrymen than he was strictly bound to do in response to the 

 meagre subscriptions he received from Great Britain, the history 

 of zoological research by Englishmen would have been much 

 less gratifying for us to read than it is. S. J. H. 



Georg Balthasar von Neumayer was elected an honorary 

 member of this society on the 17th of April, 1894. He was 

 born at Kirchheimbolanden, in Bavaria, on the 21st of June, 

 1826, so that he was within a few weeks of completing his 

 eighty-third year at the time of his lamented death on May 24th, 

 1909. Attracted always by the sea and the many problems 

 which it presents to the scientific mind, he made a special study 

 of the practice of navigation and nautical astronomy, abandoning 

 his University studies at Munich in order to ship as a common 

 sailor before the mast, that he might gain practical experience of 

 seamanship. In 1856 he went out to Tasmania to devote him- 



