TIIK ZOOI.OcilC'AL STAriOX AT NAPLES. fJSl 



the rest, has materially increased the facilities for experimental work 

 now gi'eatly in vogue ; and the fishing capacity is now sufficient to provide 

 from fifty to sixty workers at a time with all requisite material. In every 

 department of the establishment, laboratory and library alike, thorough 

 efficiency and complete success have to be recorded. 



Your Committee hereby apply for a renewal of the grant of 100^. to 

 enable Mr. H. H. Stewart, M.A., to work at the Annelids, and to aid him 

 and other competent researchers whom it is hoped to secure to study these 

 and other organisms they may desire to investigate. 



Appended to the Report is a note by the Chairman of the Committee 

 a propos of a visit to the Station and liis own Report on the Occupancy 

 of the Table. 



APPENDIX I. 



Note by the Chairman of the British Association Committee. 



As it is about ten years since a Chairman of this Committee visited 

 the Naples Zoological Station, and reported on the condition of the insti- 

 tution,^ it may serve a useful purpose to draw attention here to the facili- 

 ties for work at this world-renowned laboratory, and to the additions and 

 improvements effected during the last decade. I am indebted to Dr. 

 Dohrn, the Director, and to the Secretary, Mr. Linden, for much informa- 

 tion given me during my recent visit. 



Since Dr. Sclater's visit in 1890 additional accommodation has been 

 obtained by a re-arrangement of the roof of the main building. This 

 gives space for a second laboratory, a supplementary library, and various 

 smaller rooms used as chemical and physiological laboratories, for photo- 

 graphy and bacteriology. A good deal of the research in recent years, 

 both on the part of those occupying tables and of the permanent staff, 

 has been in the direction of comparative physiology, experimental embryo- 

 logy, and the bacteriology of sea-watei', and all necessar^^ facilities for 

 such work are now provided. 



The number of work-places, in some cases separate rooms, known 

 technically as ' tables,' is about fifty-five, and of these about thirty-four 

 are rented annually by States, Universities, or Associations. Germany 

 takes about ten of these, and Italy seven. There are thi'ee American 

 tables, and three English (rented by the Universities of Cambridge and 

 Oxford and the British Association respectively) ; consequently there are 

 generally about half a dozen English and American biologists at work in 

 the station ; but Dr. Dohrn interprets in a most liberal spirit the rules as 

 to the occupancy of a table, and, as a matter of fact, during my recent 

 visit there were, for a short time, no less than three of us occupying 

 simultaneously the British Association ' table,' and provided with separate 

 rooms. 



A work-table is really a small laboratory fitted up with all that 

 is necessary for ordinary biological research, and additional apjjaratus and 

 reagents can be obtained as required. The investigator is supposed to 

 bring his own microscope and dissecting instruments, but is supplied with 

 alcohol, acids, stains, and other chemicals, glass dishes, and bottles of 

 various kinds and sizes, drawing materials, and mounting reagentsi 



' JS'ature, February 1891, p. 392. 



