14 REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



requested, hitherto opposed no obstacle to the publication elsewhere 

 of the fullest abstract of oUch results, with the understanding- that 

 acknowledgment shall be made in any such preliiiilnary publication 

 of the assistance given b}^ it in promoting the research in which the 

 advances have been made. 



All communications in regard to the Hodgkins Fund, medals and 

 publications, and all applications for grants of money, should be 

 addressed to 



S. P. Langley, 

 Secretary of the Smitlmonian Institution.^ 



Washington., U. S. A. 



NAPLES TABLE. 



In accordance with the urgent desire of many of the leading biolo- 

 gists of the country, a contract for the Table in the Naples Zoological 

 Station for a third term of three years was entered into in Fe])ruary, 

 1900, and appointments to the seat were at once approved. 



Dr. B. M. Duggar, of Cornell University, was accorded the seat 

 for six weeks during February and March, 1900. 



Asst. Surg. V. G. Heiser, of the United States Marine-Hospital Serv- 

 ice, was permitted to use the Table at periods suited to his convenience 

 while stationed at Naples during the months of March and April, 1900. 

 As in this instance, the kindness of Dr. Dohrn, the Director, renders a 

 double occupation frequently possible, thus adding materially to the 

 service of the Table. 



It is a matter of regret that Mr. Willard G. Van Name, who received 

 the appointment for six weeks during the spring, was prevented by 

 illness from filling his term at the Table. 



Dr. T. H. Morgan, of Bryn Mawr College, who occupied the Smith- 

 sonian seat six months during the winter and spring of 1891-95, and 

 has since served temporarily on the Smithsonian Advisory Committee 

 for the Table, Avas reappointed for a part of June and eluly, ll>00. 



The application of Dr. P. C. Mensch, of Ursinus College, Pennsyl- 

 vania, Avas approved for the month of November, 1900. 



Dr. E. B. Wilson, Columbia University, New York, has returned to 

 this country and resumed his duties as a member of the Advisory 

 Committee. Each succeeding year renews the Secretary's sense of 

 obligation to the committee for the assistance afforded him in recom- 

 mending action on the various applications for the Smithsonian seat. 



The reports of the different investigators appointed to the Tal)le 

 show that the advantages for research enjoyed at Naples are appreci- 

 ated by them; they also testify to the earnest desire of the Director 

 and his assistants to render all possible aid to those conducting 

 researches at Naples. 



It may be noted that the established condition requiring an appli- 

 cant for the Table to submit, with his reijuest for the seat, a summary 

 of his scientific histor}", including a list of his published works, is not 



