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Special care has been taken to secure donations to the 

 library of the Station, The eminent firm of Engelmann in 

 Leipsig has presented all its T^^orks on biology not previously 

 possessed by Dr. Dohrn. Reweg in Brunswick has also sent 

 all his publications on biology, Theodor Fischer in Cassel 

 has done the same. Important donations are promised by 

 Dr. Alexander Agassiz of Cambridge, Mass,, comprehending 

 the publications both of his father and himself. 



To secure the development of the library on a greater 

 scale, it will be necessary to make general applications. For 

 this purpose Dr. Dohrn, assisted by several of the greatest 

 German publishing firms, is preparing an appeal to all Gemian 

 publishers, and he hopes also to succeed with a similar demand 

 in Italy. The Committee hoj)e that the British Association 

 will lend its moral support to a similar demand in this country, 

 not only by granting a compl'ete set of its own publications, 

 but by recommending a similar act to other scientific bodies 

 and private persons. 



The Committee are ' further glad to announce that some 

 steam-navigation companies are prepared to grant a free 

 passage to the naturalists and free transport for the goods 

 to and from the Station. As transactions are still pending 

 between these companies and Dr. Dohrn, the latter does not 

 think it desirable to publish details on this point, or to men- 

 tion the names of the companies in question. 



Dr. Dohrn contemplates a new step for the purpose of re- 

 turning a larger income for the Naples Station. He is about 

 to offer to several governments, universities, and scientific 

 bodies, working tables in the laboratory of the Station for a 

 certain annual sum. This sum would confer on the sub- 

 scribing government, university, or society, the right of 

 appointing a naturalist, who, on presenting a certificate to 

 the administration of the Station, would be furnished Avith a 

 working table, and admitted to a participation in all the very 

 extensive advantages of the Station. 



The Committee think w^ell earnestly to advocate this new 

 step of the administration of the Naples Station, the more 

 as it lessens the burden of the single naturalist, enabling even 

 such as are destitute of means to profit by the manifold advan- 

 tages of the Station, while it secures a fixed income to the 

 Station which would be employed in improving the technical 

 and other means of investigation. 



Mr. Lankester gave some additional account of the Zoolo- 

 gical Station about to be established by Dr. Dohrn at Naples. 

 During the present year he had personally had the oppor- 

 tunity of seeing the arrangements which were in progress. 



