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that madly tries to swim on the treacherous 

 waters of Darwinism. But forty years afterwards 

 — after many a knife-edged word had been thrown 

 in the struggle — the aged Kolliker was one of 

 those who entered their names in the list of men 

 of science who erected a bust in the Zoological 

 Institute at Jena in honour of Haeckel's sixtieth 

 birthday. 



However, it was a different, an apparently 

 trivial, yet, as it turned out, most momentous 

 interest that quickened him during these Univer- 

 sity years. 



The impulse to microscopic research, that had 

 led to the foundation of histology and embryology, 

 had brought about a third great advance which 

 had an important bearing on zoology. When we 

 stroll along the beautiful shore of the Mediter- 

 ranean at Naples to-day, with eyes bent on the 

 blue surface from which Capri rises like a siren, 

 and on the cloud-capped Vesuvius with its violet 

 streaks of lava cutting across the green country, 

 we notice in the foreground of the picture a stout 

 building, with very large windows, planted with 

 the boldness of a parvenu amongst the foliage. 

 It is the ^' Zoological Station," built by Dohrn, 

 a German zoologist, at the beginning of the 

 seventies. Anton Dohrn was one of Haeckel's first 

 pupils, and was personally initiated by him into 

 the study of marine life, at Heligoland in 1865. 

 Zoologists who work in the station to-day find it 

 very comfortable. Little steamers with dipping 

 apparatus bring the inhabitants of the bay to 



