OCCUPATION OF A TABLE AT ZOOLOGICAL STATION AT NAPLES. 153 
Occupation of a Table at the Zoological Station at Naples.— 
Report of the Committee, consisting of Professor 8. J. 
Hickson (Chairman), Mr. E. §. Goopricu (Secretary), 
Sir BE. Ray LANKESTER, Professor W. C. McIntosH, Dr. 
S. F. Harmer, Mr. G. P. Broper, Mr. W. B. Harpy, and 
Professor A. D. WALLER, appointed to aid competent Investi- 
gators selected by the Committee to carry on definite pieces 
of work at the Zoological Station at Naples. 
Srvcz the last report of the Committee was written the table at 
Naples has been occupied by the Hon. Miss Mary Palk from July 5, 
1912, to April 16, 1913, and by Dr. Stuart Thomson from March 25, 
1913, to April 16, 1913. 
The Committee have received a grant of 501. from the Council of 
the Association out of the Sir J. K. Caird benefaction, which can be 
used towards the contribution for the table next session. 
The Committee ask to be reappointed with a further grant of 501. 
Dr. J. Stuart Thomson, of the University of Manchester, reports :— 
‘I beg to report that I occupied the British Association table at 
Naples for one month during the Easter vacation of 1913. I made 
histological studies on the muscles of the dorsal vibratile fin of 
Hippocampus, and the impregnation of these muscles with hemoglobin 
and myo-hematin, and also worked at Motella with the same object 
in view. I devoted considerable attention to the general fauna, but 
more especially to the Alcyonaria of the Gulf of Naples. I collected 
and carefully preserved the brains of several genera of Elasmobranch 
fishes for future work by the Weigert Pal and Bielschowsky methods 
in connection with an investigation on which I am engaged on the 
Telencephalon of Selachians.’ 
Nomenclator Animalium Generum et Subgenerum.—Report of 
the Committee, consisting of Dr. CHALMERS MITCHELL (Chair- 
man), Rev. T. R. R. Steppine (Secretary), Dr. M. LAvRIE, 
Dr. Maretr Tims, and Dr. A. SmirH Woopwarp. (Drawn 
up by the Chairman.) 
I wave to report that after consulting the Committee I paid over the 
grant in full to Professor Schulze last December. 
He writes to me that the amount has been expended in helping to 
pay the large staff of specialists employed in carrying out the work, 
and he has furnished me with detailed accounts and statistics showing 
that he is making good progress with his gigantic task. The grant 
made by the Association is, of course, only a very small part of the cost 
of the work, but Dr. Schulze asks me to convey his thanks to the 
Association for the encouragement and assistance extended to him. 
The Committee asks for reappointment, and hopes that the Associa- 
tion will be able to afford some further help for speeding the publi- 
cation of the Nomenclator. 
