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ness of views taken in Spain in regard to what should be 

 done under the provision made in the lieylamenta of the 

 school for excursions in foreign lands, such as have been 

 mentioned, I may state that a commission was given in 

 accordance with a Royal order to a member of the Corps 

 of Forest Engineers, TSenor D. Joaquin Maria de Castell- 

 arnau y de Lleopart, to visit the zoological station at 

 Naples, study proceedings there, and report. This he did 

 in a memoir entitled ' La Estacion Zoologica de Napoles y 

 sus Procedimientos par el Examen Microscopico,' which 

 was presented to the Minister De Fomento, the Minister of 

 Agriculture, Trade, and Commerce, and published. 



Senor Castellarnau spent at the station the first three 

 months of 1883 ; and in his memoir he sought to give a 

 definite and correct idea of the station, of the facilities for 

 study afforded by it, and of the importance, and even 

 necessity, which there is for such stations, if zoology is to 

 be made a true science founded on observation ; and 

 thereafter to discharge the commission with which he had 

 been entrusted, by describing the methods and special 

 proceedings at the zoological station at Naples, omitting 

 all such generalities, formulas, and modes of operation as 

 may be met with in treatises on the microscope, but 



narrating some which miffht not have beon previoa-,1/ 



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described. 



In the first part is supplied information relative to 

 the necessity, the object, and the importance, of such 

 observatories ; the history of this zoological laboratory, in 

 which there are 22 tables, supported by different nations, 

 including one supported by the British association for the 

 advancement of science, where anyone nominated by the 

 association may prosecute researches; and two were formerly 

 supported by associations in the United States of America, 

 at one of which a young lady was then engaged in thj 

 study of cephalopods ; publications which had appeared 

 communicating the results of observations made ; means 

 which had been adopted there and in other countries for 

 the preservation of marine animals; and the aquarium of 



