162 REPORTS ON THE STATE OF SCIENCE.--1914. 
Occupation of a Table at the Zoological Station at Naples.— 
Report of the Committee, consisting of Mr. E. 8. GoopRIcH 
(Chairman), Dr. J. H. AsHworrs (Secretary), Sir EK. Ray 
LANKESTER, Professor W. C. McIntosu, Dr. 8. F. HARMER, 
Professor §. J. Hickson, Mr. G. P. Brpper, Dr. W. B. 
Harpy, and Dr. A. D. WALLER. 
Tue British Association table at Naples has been occupied since the 
beginning of October 1913 by the Hon. Mary EH. Palk, and trom 
March 17 to April 15, 1914, by Mrs. H. L. M. Pixell-Goodrich. An 
application for the use of the table in September and October has been 
received from Mr. J. Mangan, M.A., Government School of Medicine, 
Cairo. 
The following reports have been received :— 
The Hon. Mary E. Palk reports: ‘ I have occupied the Naples table 
of the British Association since October last. I have been engaged on 
a revision of Professor Anton Dohrn’s monograph of the Pycnogonida 
of the Bay of Naples. The work is slow because of the difficulty of 
preparing these animals, and the modifications I have made to Dr. 
Dohrn’s work are chiefly histological. I have been unsuccessful in 
my attempts to study the habits of the living animal. I do not yet feel 
justified in publishing the results of my researches, as most of my 
conjectures require further proof, which it is not always easy to obtain.’ 
Mrs. H. L. M. Pixell-Goodrich reports: From March 17 to April 15, 
1914, I occupied the British Association table at the Stazione Zoologica, 
Naples. During this time I searched for parasitic Protozoa in various 
marine invertebrates, and investigated chiefly stages in the development 
and sporogony of Lithocystis and Urospora of Hchinocardium cordatum 
and Gonospora of Glycera siphonostoma. The results of these researches 
I hope shortly to publish.’ 
The Committee being wishful to encourage zoologists and physi- 
ologists to apply for the use of the table, and believing they are often 
deterred from applying by an exaggerated idea of the expense involved, 
prepared a statement giving an estimate of the cost of going to and 
living in Naples. A copy of this statement was sent to every zoological 
laboratory and most of the physiological laboratories in the United 
Kingdom. It is hoped that increased use will be made of the excellent 
facilities which the table offers for the prosecution of researches in 
Zoology and in the Physiology (including the chemistry) of marine 
organisms. 
In the report for last year attention was drawn to the sum of 50I. 
remaining in the hands of the Committee. Professor Hickson, on 
retiring from the.Chairmanship of the Committee, transferred this sum 
to the present Chairman. The Committee have therefore required only 
501. from the Association this year to complete the sum due for the 
upkeep of the table. ; 
The Committee ask to be reappointed with a grant of 1001. 
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