1904] COOLEY—BOTANICAL GARDEN AT NAPLES 445 
Such a climate as this would be an ideal one in which to estab- 
lish an experimental garden, with the study of variation in structure in 
special view. The garden already contains valuable material for 
research. Naples has proved to be a splendid situation for the 
Marine Biological Laboratory. There is a place here also for a 
great botanical station for the study of plants from all the world. 
The botanists have left the ecology of this region almost untouched 
until lately, and now Professor J. Y. BERGEN is working on the 
plants of the Solfatara. This pioneer work should indicate the 
possibilities of this region as a place where the American botanists 
might establish a station which would do for botany what the German 
zoologists have done for zoology. 
STAZIONE ZOOLOGICA, 
Naples. 
