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beauty and interest, a rich historical environment, and a liberal and 
efficient management, combined with a fauna of the adjacent waters 
which is extremely rich and varied. Although but little farther south 
than Woods Hole, the fauna is much more subtropical. 
Dr. Anton Dohrn, the accomplished founder and director of the 
Naples station, together with his assistants, Dr. Lo Bianco and Dr. 
Meyer, very courteously entertained the visitor. The station occupies 
a large white stone quadrangular structure, with an aquarium on the 
ground floor and offices, laboratories, workrooms, and library on the 
upper floors. To establish the station in 1872 required $100,000, to 
which considerable sums have been added for permanent improve- 
ments and new construction. 
The station has a large income, although not in excess of its needs. 
It is supported by government grants, by the endowment of the tables, 
by fees for admission to the aquarium, and by the sale of specimens. 
The most liberal patrons of the institution are Germany and Italy. 
The German government gives an annual fund of 40,000 marks 
($10,000), without any restrictions as to its use. The Italian govern- 
ment gives yearly 5,000 franes ($1,000) for the maintenance of the 
library. The principal source of income is the endowment of tables, 
of which 34 were supported in 1900, as follows: Various German prov- 
ineces, 11 tables; Italian government, 9 tables; Russian government, 
2 tables; Austrian government, 2 tables; Hungarian, Swiss, Duteh, 
and Belgian governments, | table each; in England, the University 
of Oxford, the University of Cambridge, and the British Association 
for the Advancement of Science, | table each; in the United States, 
the Smithsonian Institution, the Association of American Women, 
and Columbia University, 1 table each. To endow a table costs $500 
per annum, so that the income of the station from this source is 
$17,000. During each season from 50 to 60 workers from all parts of 
the civilized world carry on investigations here. Those occupying 
tables are without any restrictions as to the lines of work they pursue 
and the publication of results; and, besides being provided with the 
animals for study, they are supplied with microscope, reagents, indi- 
vidual aquaria, and all other things needful for their work. 
Another enterprise which adds $3,000 to $5,000 annually to the 
resources of the institution is the sale to naturalists and museums of 
preserved specimens of marineanimals for study and exhibition. The 
reputation of the Naples station for such material is universally rec- 
ognized, and its output reaches all parts of the world.* 
The regular employees of the station number 45. By a provision 
of the German government a pension fund is established for super- 
annuatedemployees. There is also a reserve fund maintained to meet 
extraordinary conditions. Two small steam vessels, one decked and 
one open, are used in conjunction with the laboratory. 


* See Methods Employed at the Naples Station for the Preservation of Marine Animals, by 
Dr. Salvatore Lo Bianco. Translated by E. O. Hovey. Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., No. 39, Part M 
