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of the dredge,' Edward Forbes prepared and pre- 

 sented in 1850 a report in which he remarked that 

 ' British marine invertebrate zoology has advanced 

 with gigantic strides since the year the committee 

 was established.' His own pioneer work was largely 

 responsible for this. In 1843, moreover, he presented 

 the results of his famous work ' On the Mollusca and 

 Radiata of the ^Egean Sea, and on their Distribution, 

 considered as bearing on Geology.' This work had 

 been carried out during a voyage of eighteen months 

 on board H.M.S. Beacon, in the course of which his 

 health suffered severely. Other workers followed 

 Forbes' lead, and a succession of reports almost 

 annually in the succeeding twenty volumes of the 

 Association testifies to the extension of oceano- 

 graphical research which led up to the work of 

 the great Challenger expedition. 



In 1873. at the time when, as recorded elsewhere, 

 the Association was moving with other bodies for 

 the dispatch of that expedition, a committee which 

 included Sclater, Anton Dohrn, Huxley, Wyville 

 Thomson, and Ray Lankester, was reporting upon 

 ' the foundation of zoological stations in different 

 parts of the globe/ The committee's report in that 

 year was able to announce the completion of the 

 zoological station at Naples, under Dohrn's direction, 

 as well as activity elsewhere : thus, Louis Agassiz 

 was at the same time setting up his zoological school 

 on Buzzard Bay in the United States. Dohrn 

 reported that tables at the Naples station had been 

 let to the government authorities of Prussia, Italy, 

 Bavaria, and Baden, and to the University of S trass- 

 burg ; the University of Cambridge followed this 

 example shortly afterwards, but the British Govern- 



