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REPORT — 1902. 



Seport on the Occupation of the Table from January to April 1902. 

 c. On the Algcc of the Bay of Naples. By Miss Anna Vickers. 



My work at the Zoological Station in Naples from the beginning of 

 January to April 12 was chiefly on material I brought myself from 

 Barbados. I was able during that time to finish a certain number of 

 drawings for a work which I hope to publish on the Alg;B of Barbados. 

 It is to be a Phycologia of the island, which I intend to complete from fresh 

 material next winter on my return to Barbados. It is not easy to work 

 on dry algse. They have to go through such delicate handling, and even 

 then with all the reactives used the cells scarcely get their original shape 

 again. The acids tend to swell the tissues to an exaggerated size, if 



