ON THE ZOOLOGICAL STATION AT NAPLES. 259 



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

 the Committee, consisting q/" Professor W. A. Herdman (Chairman), 

 Professor G. B. Howes (Secreta/ri/), Professor E. Ray Lankester, 

 Professor W. F. R. Weldox, Professor S. J. HiCKSOX, Mr. A. 

 Sedgwick, and Professor W. C. McIntosh. 



APPEXDIX PAflf; 



I. ItepoH on the Occupation of the Table . 260 



a. On the Structun: and Berelopmei/t of the Excretory Apparatus of 



Amphioxus. ^y B. S. GOODEICH, i)/.4 260 



h. On Trematodes and Cestodes parasitic on Fishes. 5// Norm an Mac- 



LAREN, Esq 260 



c. On the Algce of the Bay of Naples. 5y Miss Anna ViCKEKS . . 263 



d. On the Copepod Suh-famihj ^lidii/uB,)vith a proposed Heilsion of tho 



Classifcation. By R. NoEEis Wolfenden, M.D. Cantab., F.Z.S. 263 

 II. A List of Natui'alists who have vjorhed at the Zoological Stationfronithe end 



of June 1901 to the end of June 1902 267 



III. A List of Papers which were published in the year 1901 by the Naturalists 



mho have occupied Tables in the Zoological Station ..... 269 



IV. A List of the Publications of the Zoological Station during the year ending 



June 30, 1902 270 



Owing to circumstances which transpired in the interval between applica- 

 tion and the intended commencement of work for which the grant for 1902 

 was obtained, Messrs. Wallace and Gurney were both rendered incapable 

 of fulfilling their task, Mr. Gurney having been forbidden by his medical 

 adviser to journey afield under risk of injury to his health. Your Com- 

 mittee report the securing of substitutes whose names are given above, 

 and whose work has been in each case a success. And they are desired by 

 Mr. Wallace to state that he renews his application for the use of a Table 

 during the coming year, and that he proposes to study ' Variation and 

 Gestation in the Selachii.' 



In a letter received from Dr. Anton Dohrn, special mention is made 

 of his ability to endorse his surmise of 1901 as to his intention of erecting 

 and equipping a new laboratory for comparative physiological research. 

 He informs your Committee that the Town Council of Naples have 

 unanimously voted an area of land of 600 square metres, in immediate 

 proximity to the two historical buildings now in use, as a site for the 

 laboratory aforementioned ; and it is with satisfaction that your Com- 

 mittee are enabled to report that funds sufficient for the undertaking ai-e 

 guaranteed, through the generosity of personal friends of Dr. Dohrn, and 

 that plans for the building are now prepared. 



The work of construction will be commenced in autumn, and it is 

 expected that the laboratory will be finished and fully equipped by 

 Easter, 1904. 



Dr. Dohrn lays stress on the fact that for a very considerable contri- 

 bution to the cost of the new building he is indebted to an English fi-iend, 

 and your Committee re-echo his hope that this may further cement the tie 

 with the British Association, and that the range of the work of those who 

 in future may visit the Station on its behalf shall be commensurate with 

 the Station's increased facilities and growth. 



In presenting the reports of the occupants of the Table during tlie 



