152 EEPORT— 1888. 



a royal decree charging the Ministry with direct propositions to Professor 

 Dohrn has been published. 



The Puhlicatiuns of the Station. — The progress of the various works 

 undertaken by the Station is here summarised : — 



1. Of the ' Fauna und Flora des Golfes von Neapel ' the following 

 two monographs have been published since the last Report : 



XV. Gr. von Koch, GorgonidcB. 



XVI. H. Eisig, Capitellidce. 



The plates for the following works are in the press : Falkenberg on 

 ' Rhodomelese ' ; Spengel on ' Balanoglossus ' ; Delia Valle on ' Amphi- 

 poda ' ; Giesbrecht on ' Copepoda ' ; and Vosmaer on ' Porifera incal- 

 carea.' The text for the last-mentioned work will be in English. 



2. Of the ' Mittheilungen aus der Zoologischen Station zu Neapel,' 

 vol. vii., parts ii., iii., and iv., with 24 plates, have been published. 



3. Of the ' Zoologischer Jahresbericht ' for 1885, parts i. and iv. and 

 a ' Nachtrag (Vermes) ' have been published ; and the whole ' Bericht ' 

 for 1886 (dealing no longer with systematic and faunistic papers). 



Extracts from the Oeneral Report of the Zoological Station. — The oflBcers 

 of the Station have courteously furnished lists (1) of the naturalists 

 who have occupied tables since the last report, (2) of the works published 

 during 1887 by naturalists who have worked at the Zoological Station, 

 (3) of the specimens sent out by the Station during the past year. These 

 details show a large increase in the number of naturalists who have worked 

 at the Station, as compared with any previous year, and an increase also 

 in the total value of the specimens distributed. 



The British Association Table. — Three naturalists have occupied the 

 British Association Table during the past year. Mr. John Gardiner, who 

 had occupied the table for five months during the preceding year, was 

 still in possession at the commencement of the past year, and had intended 

 to occupy the table until December, in accordance with the permission of 

 your Committee. Unfortunately a dangerous illness prevented the carry- 

 ing out of these intentions, and the climate of Naples being considered 

 unsuitable for Mr. Gardiner's restoration to health, he was obliged to 

 resign the table after occupying it a little more than two months in the 

 year with which the present report is concerned. Mr. Gardiner sent an 

 interesting report on the result of some of his work to the Committee, 

 which was submitted at the last meeting of the Association, and the 

 supplementary report on the remainder of his occupation, which Mr. 

 Gardiner has sent from Colorado, will be found appended. 



The use of the table has been granted during the past year to Mr. 

 Andrew David Sloan, of Edinburgh, and subsequently to Professor E. J. 

 Anderson, of Queen's College, Cralway, both of whom have furnished 

 reports on the nature of their investigations. The reports are appended. 



Your Committee have received two applications for permission to use 

 the British Association table during the current and coming year, which, 

 they approve ; and hope that the Council will enable them to sanction 

 the applications by renewing the grant (lOOZ.) for the ensuing year. In 

 the opinion of yonr Committee the report now submitted fully justifies 

 them in strongly recommending the renewal of the grant. 



I. Beport on the Occupation of the Table, by Mr. John Gaedinee. 



Soon after the date of my last report, I began to study the local 

 species of Sargassum. At first I merely familiarised myself with the 



