CATALOGUE OF INSTITUTIONS— ITALY 



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Organization to xohich attached: Ente Morale, Board 

 consisting of seven members: President, the 

 Mayor of Naples. 



One member designated by the Naples Munici- 

 pality. 



One member designated by the Comitato Talas- 

 sografico Italiano. 



Three members designated by the Minister of 

 National Education. (Three of these mem- 

 bers are University Professors.) 



Permanent member and director, Professor 

 Reinhard Dohrn. 

 Purposes: Purely research, except that the Stazione 

 maintains a supply department from which uni- 

 versities and investigators may get material 

 for both instruction and research. 

 Scope of activities: Any kind of biological work for 

 which material, both zoological and botanical, 

 can be procured in the vicinity of Naples. This 

 includes systematic biology, morphology, em- 

 bryology, ecology, physiology, and physiological 

 chemistry. In addition to the biological re- 

 searches the station has also served as a base 

 from which important investigations on marine 

 bottom deposits and other subjects of geological 

 significance have been prosecuted. 

 Equipment: The laboratory building is situated near 

 the center of the Villa Nazionale. It stands 75 

 meters north of the sea wall and the first floor 

 is about four meters above mean tide level. The 

 material of which it is constructed is tufa masonry 

 with stucco trimmings and the style is modern 

 Italian Renaissance. 



There is a basement which is about one meter 

 above sea level, and above it ri.se four stories. 

 The total dimensions of the entire building are 

 25 by 100 meters, and it reaches a height above 

 ground of 16 meters. Its longer axis is along an 

 east-west line, parallel to the shoreline. The 

 building is compo.sed of five sections, three of 

 which are for laboratory purposes and two are 

 intermediate connecting structures, but with 

 some laboratory rooms in the eastern connecting 

 structure. Chronologically the structure first 

 erected is the middle one which is 25 meters wide 

 by 33.5 meters long. It was completed in 1874. 

 The next structure to be erected is at the west 

 end. It was erected in 1886, and occupied an 

 area 25 by 18 meters in dimensions. Between 

 the middle section and this second section there 

 is an open court; the area of which is 25 by 18 

 meters. It is enclosed on the ground level by 



railings and on the level of the second floor it is 

 spanned by a bridge, and is bordered on three 

 sides and a part of the fourth by promenades. 

 The easternmost section, the one for comparative 

 physiology and physiological chemistry, was 

 erected in 1903. The area of the ba.se of this 

 building is 25 by 33.5 meters. Between the 

 structure erected in 1874 and the one erected in 

 1903 is a central court 25 by 17 meters in area, 

 opening to the .sky and reached on both sides at 

 ground level by open archways. Above the 

 arcades formed by these arches there are struc- 

 tures which are continuous on each side with 

 the rest of the building, and there are two stories 

 of laboratory rooms. 



The total area of the floor space on the five 

 floors is 12,725 square meters, and the total 

 number of rooms, including passages, stairs, and 

 attic compartments, is 259. The aquarium on 

 the first floor of the building was completed in 

 1874. Kofoid, in his description of the Stazione 

 Zoologica, has given much detail about the 

 arrangement of the rooms, the salt water supply, 

 and other features. It is suggested that his 

 account of the station be consulted. 



Visiting investigators are supplied with much 

 equipment and many articles that must be pur- 

 chased are furnished at cost. Living biological 

 material is promjjtly provided, weather and season 

 permitting. In general investigators are sup- 

 posed to provide their own microscopes and 

 certain other apparatus. Doctor Reinhard Dohrn 

 has been able to make with the customs authorities 

 at Naples an arrangement to import free of duty 

 apparatus to be used at the station, but which 

 will be exported within a year. Permits are 

 issued for three months and they may not aggre- 

 gate more than twelve months. 



A large and very valuable library. There are 

 over 25,000 boiuid volumes and about 40,000 

 reprints, numbers of which have been bound in 

 volumes of related subjects. 

 Staff: Scientific: Prof. Reinhard Dohrn, Director; 

 Prof. Silvio Ranzi, Head of the Zoological De- 

 partment; Prof. E. Caroli, Zoological As.sistant 

 and Librarian; Prof. F. P. Massa, Department of 

 Chemistry; Dr. G. Kramer, Department of 

 Physiology. 



Technical and Clerical: Secretary; Cashier; Ac- 

 countant; Commercial agent. 

 Maintenance and Operation: 22 servants, fisher- 

 men, mechanicians, workmen, etc. 



