BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY AT NAPLES 



of the Naples laboratory that similar institutions have 

 been established all over the world. 



Thanks largely to the original efforts of Dr. Dohrn, 

 nearly all civilized countries with a coast-line now 

 have their marine laboratories. France has half a 

 dozen, two of them under government control. Rus- 

 sia has two on the Black Sea and one on the French 

 Mediterranean coast. Great Britain has important 

 stations at St. Andrews, at Liverpool, and at Plym- 

 outh. The Scandinavian peninsula has also three im- 

 portant stations. Germany shows a paucity by com- 

 parison, which, however, is easily understood when 

 one reflects that the mother-laboratory at Naples is 

 essentially a German institution despite its location. 



The American stations are located at Woods' Holl 

 and at Cold Spring Harbor, on opposite coasts of Long 

 Island Sound. The Japanese station is an adjunct of 

 Tokio University. For the rest, the minor offspring 

 of the Naples laboratory are too numerous to be cited 

 here. Nor can I enter into any details regarding even 

 the more important ones. Each in its way enters 

 into the same general line of work, varying the details 

 according to the bent of mind of individual directors 

 and the limitations of individual resources. But in 

 the broader outlines the aim of all is the same, and 

 what we have seen at Naples is typical of what is best 

 in all the others. 



