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periences stored up in his ever-impression- 

 able soul. He inherited from his father the 

 love and fine appreciation of music ; which 

 was dearest to him of all the arts. Once 

 when an intimate colleague said to him that 

 had he means he would found a picture 

 gallery, Dohrn replied, ' ' And I would own 

 an orchestra led by the best of conductors. ' ' 

 While a young man the chance whistling 

 of an air from a violin concerto of Mendels- 

 sohn, who, by the way, was his god-father, 

 won for him the sympathy, and later the 

 almost irreplaceable help, of Lloyd, the Eng- 

 lish aquarium expert; and in later years 

 the road to his heart was most easily found 

 by those with whom he could commune 

 through a common musical taste. 



It were vain even to wish to describe the 

 powers of attraction exerted by Dohrn over 

 individuals of widely differing personali- 

 ties. To the test, ' ' Tell me with whom you 

 associate, and I will tell you who you are, ' ' 

 Dohrn could confidently have submitted 

 himself. When, in 1902, an intimate friend 

 among foreign zoologists traveling through 

 Germany, asked a German colleague if he 

 often saw Dohrn, the reply was: "We 

 never see Dohrn any more, he associates 

 entirely now with princes, excellencies and 

 millionaires." In this joking exaggeration 

 is hidden a real and at the same time an 

 important side of Dohrn 's relations with 

 people, important alike for the station and 

 zoologists. When he began the building of 

 his zoological station and knocked now here, 

 now there at the doors of the well-to-do, 

 asking if they were not inclined to make 

 some offering in the interests of science, he 

 found, with few exceptions, wise councils, 

 but no money. One notable exception was 

 a gift from English scientists led by Dar- 

 win, Lyell, Huxley and Lubbock. Nothing 

 better illustrates the position he finally won 

 for himself than the fact that thirty years 

 later not only did the city of Naples again 



cede to him a most valuable piece of the 

 public garden, for the station's new build- 

 ing, but above all he erected this building 

 with funds placed at his disposal without 

 conditions by rich friends. And so great 

 was the consideration and confidence he 

 enjoyed that without the least difficulty he 

 could have obtained even greater sums, 

 without specifying ' ' the why or wherefore. ' ' 

 But at first, as we have already said, his 

 requests for aid brought only disappoint- 

 ment, and it would have gone hard with the 

 station had not the personal impression he 

 so well knew how to make on ministers and 

 ambassadors and leading members of the 

 Berlin Academy and the Reichstag led to a 

 spirit of readiness to grant support; an 

 accomplishment which compels us to marvel 

 when we consider the caution and the typ- 

 ical reaction of inertia such appeals usually 

 evoke. But quite as necessary as material 

 means for the success of this undertaking 

 planned by a German on Italian soil, was 

 the awakening of an Italian sentiment and 

 the moral support of the fatherland. 

 Highly as we may estimate the spontaneous 

 interest in zoology of the German and 

 Italian rulers, it is beyond question that 

 this sympathetic interest was stimulated by 

 Dohrn 's personal qualities and by the turn 

 that his creative faculty could give to the 

 methods for carrying on zoological investi- 

 gations. The gain to the station coming 

 from this powerful protection needs no 

 comraent. 



When I spoke of Dohrn 's social affilia- 

 tions I had something special in mind: 

 Prom his earliest years until his death he 

 maintained the closest ties of friendship 

 with men of the highest intellectual stand- 

 ing entirely regardless of material condi- 

 tions. I mention only those who are dead, 

 and whose names are widely known: one 

 of the most notable zoologists, Thomas H. 

 Huxley ; the eminent physicist and founder 



