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INTERNATIONAL ASPECTS OF OCEANOGRAPHY 



private persons for their own use and upon simple 

 request, for periods not less than six months. 

 The amount to be paid in advance is 800 lire gold 

 for foreigners and 1600 lire paper for Italians. 

 For each month in addition to .six months, the 

 monthly rate is respectively 130 lire gold and 260 

 lire paper. ^ 



Income: R. Comitato Talassografico Italiano. 



Provision for publications of results: Memorie; Bollet- 

 tino; Monografie del R. Comitato Talassografico 

 Italiano. 



Gabinetto di Oceanografia e Meteorologia 



(Napoli) ('37) 



History or origin: Founded in compliance with a 

 Royal Decree dated May 1920, n. 1157. 



Location: R. Istituto Superiore Navale, Napoli. 



Organization to which attached: R. Istituto Superiore 

 Navale, Napoli. 



Purposes: Teaching oceanography and nautical 

 meteorology to prospective officers in the Mer- 

 chant Marine, and to future teachers in the 

 nautical schools. 



/Scope of activities: Scientific and experimental 

 researches. 



Equipment: The usual apparatus for oceanographic 

 work, such as that for chlorine titration, reversing 

 thermometers, etc. 



Staff: Professor Eredia, Professor of Oceanography. 

 Scientific: Assistant N.N. Technical: 1. Main- 

 tenance and operation: 2. 



Provisions for visiting investigators: Rooms attached 

 to the laboratory will be available. 



Income: Sources, R. Istituto Superiore Navale, 

 Napoli. Amount, variable every year. 



Provision for publication of results: The Istituto 

 publishes Annuario del R. Istituto Superiore 

 Navale, and the Annali del R. Istituto Superiore 

 Navale, of which volumes 1 and 2 have been 

 published. 



Stazione Zoologica di Napoli' ('37) 



History or origin: The Stazione Zoologica di Napoli 

 was founded in 1872 by Anton Dohrn, a pupil 



'To be purchased; Interesting faunistic materials from 

 the Strait of Messina for scientific research work of mu- 

 seums. 



« Kofoid, C. A. The Biological Stations of Europe, U. S. 

 Bureau of Education Bulletin, whole number 440, pp. 9-32, 

 1910, gives a full account of the establishment of this station 

 and a description of the buildings and their equipment up 

 to 1909. Most of what is said in this publication is still 

 valid and it has been utilized in preparing the statement 

 here given, which has been checked by Prof. Reinhard 

 Dohrn. 



and colleague of Ernst Haeckel and docent at the 

 University of Jena. In 1868 Dohrn made a 

 journey to Sicily and established at Messina a 

 small temporary laboratory for his own researches. 

 He contemplated founding a laboratory and 

 aquarium at that place but changed his intentions 

 and decided to utilize Naples as the site of the 

 station. In 1870 he procured from the City of 

 Naples a site in the Villa Nazionale on the water 

 front of the Bay of Naples, on the condition 

 that he would erect a station which would remain 

 the private property of himself and his immediate 

 heirs for ninety years and then revert to the 

 municipality, but which would still be used 

 for its original purpose. The first building was 

 begun in 1872 and completed in 1874. Toward 

 the erection of the first building Dohrn con- 

 tributed out of his private fortune 300,000 francs, 

 the balance of the total cost of 400,000 francs 

 was met by outside contribution.?. The German 

 Ministry of Foreign Affairs first granted an 

 annual subvention of 30,000 M., which was 

 increased in 1888 to 40,000 M., and later at 

 Dohrn's request reduced to 20,000 M. Because 

 of the increased demands upon the station in 1886 

 its facilities were enlarged by the construction 

 of the western block of the building, toward the 

 cost of which the Italian and Provincial Govern- 

 ments contributed about 100,000 lire. 



In 1903 in order to meet the needs for additional 

 facilities for researches in comparative phy.siology 

 and physiological chemistry, a new section of the 

 building devoted in large part to those purposes 

 was erected. The German Emperor encouraged 

 the .subscription to a fund of 300,000 M. for this 

 purpose. 



An account of the history of the Stazione imme- 

 diately after the World War is given by Miss 

 Margaret Boveri in an article entitled "Die 

 Zoologische Station zu Neapel."' The third 

 section of the article "Gegenwart und Zukunft," 

 gives the essence of the struggle of Doctor Rein- 

 hard Dohrn, son and successor of Doctor Anton 

 Dhorn, to regain the directorship of the station 

 after the war and to get it into operation. The 

 present arrangement for the operation of the 

 station is indicated in this statement, under the 

 caption, "Organization to which attached." 

 Location: In the Villa Nazionale of Naples. 



' In L. Brauer, A. Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, and A. 

 Meyer: Forschungsinstitute, ihre Geschichte, Organisation 

 und Ziele, Vol. 2, pp. 578-598, 1930. 



