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The advantages enumerated above are. however, already known to 
any who may happen to have read the reports of the zoologists on 
their stay there. It is more particularly to another side of the institu- 
tion, which has not, [ am sure, received the attention it deserves from 
American botanists, that I wish to allude. 
Although known officially as the Zoological Station of Naples, the 
director has from the first recognized the importance of a knowledge 
of the flora of the Gulf; as many as three volumes of the magnificent 
Fauna und Flora des Golfs von Neapel relate to alge, and in the Mit- 
thetlungen aus der Zoologischen Station zu Neapel there are a number 
of valuable papers on marine plants by Schmitz, Berthold, Falkenberg, 
and others. 
Of still more importance is the fact that in the recently erected 
west wing of the station building there is a suite of laboratories’ 
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Fic. 2. Ground plan of the botanical laboratories of the Naples Zoological Station. 
expressly set aside for botanical work. The ground plan of these rooms 
is given in fg. 
Hansen? has already described the rooms briefly and enumerated 
the fairly good set of physiological apparatus belonging to them, so I 
need only state that inasmuch as through the liberality of the Ameri- 
can Society of Naturalists two good microtomes are furnished for the 
use of the incumbents of American tables, and as the station furnishes 
small but extremely convenient paraffin ovens, cytological and morpho- 
logical research is as well provided for as is physiological. 
2 They are behind the three large windows shown in fg. 7, and are to be seen 
also in Plate AXVEL, 
3 HANSEN, A.: Bericht iiber die neuen botanischen Arbeitsraume in der zoolo- 
gischen Station zu Neapel, Bot. Zeit. 50: 279-285. Ap. 1892. Reprinted with a 
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few changes in Mittheilungen aus d. Zool. Stat. zu New 10: 654-658. 1 Ap. 1893 
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