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1897 ] BRIEFER ARTICLES 281 
The library, although mainly zoological, has many sets of period- 
icals containing botanical articles, and possesses in addition about 
three hundred and fifty volumes exclusively on botany, many of them 
being very costly illustrated works on marine alge, and also over 
seventy-five volumes of botanical reprints and author’s copies contain- 
ing on an average about ten articles each. 
There is a very full alcoholic collection of the marine algz pre- 
pared by Berthold and a fairly good local herbarium, which in connec- 
tion with Berthold’s valuable list and sketch of the geographical distri- 
bution‘ render it easy, even for beginners in the study of marine flora, 
to become acquainted with the common forms and to obtain any 
desired species. The importance of such facilities for those making 
only a short stay is obvious. 
So far, although about thirty-five botanists have worked at the sta- 
tion, many of them at several different times, only three Americans 
are among the number, namely Dr. H. L. Russell, who worked on bac- 
terial flora of the gulf’; Mr. D. G. Fairchild, who studied karyokinesis 
in Valonia*; and the writer, who worked on the cytology of the Spha- 
celariacez.? Among other European botanists who have visited the 
Station might be mentioned Goebel, Solms-Laubach, Schmitz, Ber- 
thold, Falkenberg, Meyer, Hansen, Fischer, Ambronn, Noll, Went, 
Valiante, Reinke, Klebs, Famintzin, Golenkin, Klemm, Oltmanns, 
Benecke. 
It should be stated that a table costs five hundred dollars a year, 
and that at present there are but two supported in this country, one by 
the Smithsonian Institution and the other by Columbia University. If 
the splendid facilities for algological work were more generally known 
I believe that American botanists could easily use at least one table, 
this too even if, as we all hope, the plans now proposed looking 
toward the establishment of a tropical botanical station in America can 
be carried out, for probably there will always be Americans either 
: studying or traveling in Europe to whom the opportunity of spending 
ven a few months at Naples would be very welcome, especially since | 
+BERTHOLD, G.: Ueber die Vertheilung der Algen im Golf von Neapel nebst 
einem Verzeichniss der bisher daselbst beobachteten Arten: Mittheilungen aus d. 
Zool. Stat. zu Neap. 3: 393-536. Tab. 1-3. 1882. ! 
_ SRussez, H. L.: Bor. Gaz. 17:312-321. Oct. 1892. Seng 
_ SFAIRCHILD, D. G.: Berichte d. deut. bot. Ges. 12: sat. A ar 04, e 
oe €: Jabrbiicher f. wiss. Bot. ine a 
