SCIENCE 



FRroAY, October 8, 1920 



CONTENTS 

 The Naples Zoological Station: De. Edwin B. 

 Powers 323 



Resolutions of the Pan-Facifio Scientific Con- 

 ference 325 



Biophysics : PEOrEssoR Alexander Foebes. . . 331 



Scientific Events: — 



The Power Resources of Canada; Fur-seals 

 of the Prihilof Islands; The Proposed Cali- 

 fornia Anti-vivisection Legislation; The 

 Sixteenth Annual New England Intercol- 

 legiate Geological Excursion; Lectures on 

 Astronomical Subjects at the California 

 Academy of Sciences 332 



Scientific Notes and News 335 



University and Educational News 337 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



The Boundary between the Silurian and 

 Devonian in Shropshire and France: Peo- 

 FESSOE Charles Schucheet. The Meas- 

 urement of Postglacial Time: Dr. H. A. 

 Gleason. Explorations in the Panhandle 

 of Texas: Dr. W. K. Moorehead 339 



Quotations : — 



The British Association at Cardiff 341 



Scientific BooTcs : — 



Shull's Principles of Animal Biology: Pro- 

 fessor H. J. Van Cleaye 340 



Special Articles: — 

 Bibes as a Controlling Factor in the Spread 

 of White Pine Blister Bitst: Professor E. 

 G. Cheynet 342 



The American Chemical Society: Dr. Chaeles 

 L. Paesons 345 



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 review should be sent to The Editor of Science, Ga 

 Hudson, N. Y. 



THE NAPLES ZOOLOGICAL STATION 



On a recent visit to l^aples tlie writer dis- 

 cussed with Professor Filippo Bottazzi details 

 of the war management of the Naples Zoolog- 

 ical Station and its proposed future disposi- 

 tion — a subject that will be of interest to the 

 readers of Science. 



In the train of events following May, 1815, 

 E. Dohrn, director of the station, and all the 

 German personnel, departed. The zoological 

 station was taken over by the Italian govern- 

 ment. The management was placed under the 

 administration of a special commission com- 

 posed of Professor P. S. Monticelli, of the 

 University of Naples ; Professor L. De Marchi, 

 of the University of Padua, and Coram. 

 G. Biraghi, department chief of the Ministry 

 of Education. Professor Monticelli was made 

 president of the commission. This commis- 

 sion then appointed Professor U. Pierantoni, 

 of the University of Naples, director of the 

 zoological section of the station; Professor F. 

 Bottazzi, of the University of Naples, director 

 of the physiological section, and some other 

 assistants. 



By a decree May 26, 1918, the commission 

 placed the station under the auspices of the 

 Ministry of Education as an autonomous in- 

 stitution; and by another decree, June 9, 

 1918, the statute compiled by the commission 

 itself was approved and now governs the ad- 

 ministrative management of the station. 



The part of the statute which concerns the 

 scientific management of the station has 

 aroused objections from those interested in the 

 physiology and physiological chemistry, sec- 

 tions, as there was a feeling that in time these 

 two sections would be overshadowed. With- 

 out going into the details of the discussion of 

 this portion of the statute, for the formation 

 of which the president of the commission seems 

 to have been solely responsible, it suffices to 



