474 REPORT — 1895. 



Your Committee trust that the final report will be ready for presenta- 

 tion at the next meeting of the Association in 1896, and respecbfully ask 

 for their reappointment. 



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

 the Committee, consisting of Dr. P. L. Sclater, Professor E. Ray 

 Lankester, Professor J. Cossar Ewart, Professor M. Foster. 

 Professor S. J. HiCKSON, Mr. A. Sedgwick, and Mr. Percy 

 Sladen (Secretary). 



APPENDIX PAGE 



I. — TIw Maturation and Fecundation of the Ova of certain UeJdnoderms 



and Tunicates. By M. D. Hill 475 



II. — List of Naturalists who hare n-orhed at the Zoological Station from 



July 1, 1894, to Jime .SO, 1895 477 



m.^List of Papers which were published in 1894 hij Naturalists who 



have occupied Tables in the Zoological Station 478 



The Table in the Naples Zoological Station hired by the British Asso- 

 ciation has been occupied during the past year, under the sanction of your 

 Committee, by Mr. M. D. Hill, who has continued his investigations on 

 the maturation and fecundation of the ova of certain Echinoderms and 

 Tunicates, and has arrived at several interesting and original conclusions, 

 which are briefly sketched out in the appended report of his work which 

 Mr. Hill has furnished. 



Your Committee would draw attention to the concluding remarks 

 in Mr. Hill's report respecting the advantages attending the occupation 

 of a table at N.aples apart from the exceptional facilities for special and 

 predetermined investigations ; and your Committee consider that this 

 furnishes an argument which is alone more than sufficient to justify the 

 continuance of the grant. 



Your Committee trust that the General Committee will sanction the 

 payment of the grant of 100^., as in previous years, for the hire of the 

 Table in the Zoological Station at Naples. 



The efficiency of the Station in promoting research is now so universally 

 recognised that a recapitulation is unnecessary ; and it is an eloquent 

 fact that notwithstanding the rapid multiplication of biological laboratories 

 throughout Europe and America, the number of naturalists who avail 

 themselves of the Naples institution averages between fifty and sixty 

 annually. 



Perhaps the most far-reaching move yet undertaken by the Zoological 

 Station consists in the establishment of a small Zoological Station on New 

 Britain (also known as Neu Pommern), an island adjacent to New Guinea. 

 Mr. Parkinson, a planter, who had lived there for some years, recently 

 called upon Dr. Dohrn in Naples, and expressed his willingness to erect a 

 small building on his estate suitable for a laboratory, if the Naples Station 

 would provide all the necessary apparatus. This generous offer was 

 accepted, and the requisite equipment was duly despatched from Germany 

 and Naples last September. 



At the same time Mr. Arthur Willey, whose name is well known for 

 his work on Tunicates and Amphioxus, and who has previously occupied 



