354 EEPORT— 1901. 



Occupation of a Table at the Zoological Station at Naples. — Beport of 

 the Comynitfee, consisting 0/ Professor W. A. Herdman (^Chairman), 

 Professor E. Ray Lankester, Professor W. F. R. Weldon, 

 Professor S. J. HiCKSON, Mr. A. Sedgwick, Professor W. C. 

 McIntosh, and Professor G. B. Howes (Secretamj). 



APPENDIX PAGK 



I. a. Report on the Oeoupation of the Table. Sy Dr. R. Hamlyn-Haruis, 



F.R.M.S.,F.Z.S.,' Onthe Statoeysts of Cephalopoda' . . . 355 

 b. Report on the Oociipatton of the Tnhle. By Dr. A. H. Reginald 

 BULLEK, B.Sc. Fit the eontimiationof Ms previous investigation of 

 ' The Fertilisation Process in Fchinoidea ' ..... 356 



II. A List of Naturalists mho hare worked at the Zoological Station from 



the end of June 1900 till the Old of June IQOi 358 



III. A List of Papers which were published inthe Year 1900 hy the Naturalists 



who have occupied Tables in the Zoological Station .... 360 



IV. A List of the Publioations of the Zoological Station during the Year ending 



June 30, 1901 361 



The work of the year has been of the steadily progressive order which 

 marks progress. Mr. H. H. Stewart, for whom appeal was made, was at 

 the last moment prevented by college duties from fulfilling his desire. 

 Capable investigators were, however, forthcoming in Dr. Reginald Duller, 

 of Munich, and Dr. Hamlyn- Harris, also at present working on the 

 continent. These gentlemen, in availing themselves of the opportunity of 

 study which the Association afforded, have accumulated material sufficient 

 for long-continued research. 



In a letter received by your Committee from Dr. Anton Dohrn special 

 acknowledgment is given, on behalf of himself and the associated members 

 of his .staff, of the terms in which, in the Association's Report for 1900, 

 their work has been described. He desires that the best thanks of all be 

 conveyed through your Committee to the officers and members of the 

 Association for their confidence and support, with the assurance that it 

 has done much to encourage them in their conviction that the requirements 

 of marine biological study are as great as those of the terrestrial order, 

 and that both should be equally maintained and equipped. 



Under this resolve, efforts are now being made at Naples to develop 

 the experimental and more strictly physiological side of the work in hand. 

 It is needless to insist on the advantages which must accrue from the 

 study of the rich fauna of the Neapolitan marine area to the largely open 

 field of comparative physiology. Work of the experimental type is now 

 revolutionising certain branches of biological inquiry, and in deciding to 

 keep pace with this, those in charge of the Naples establishment are to be 

 commended. 



To the resolve of Dr. Dohrn and his associates your Committee 

 acquiesce, and they, with increased assurance, recommend the claim of the 

 Naples Station for continued support to your consideration. It has been 

 in the direction for which encouragement is now sought that both occupants 

 of the Association's table have during the past year been engaged — Dr. 

 BuUer's work having been more especially of a most advanced order — 

 and it is accordingly with the greater satisfaction that your Committee, 

 in applying for a renewal ofthe graiit, do so to enable Mr. R. Gurney, of 



