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and is managed by a Board of Trustees. The station publishes a 

 Bulletin giving an account of the work accomplished there. 



The organization at Naples is still different. Dr. Dohrn, the en- 

 thusiastic founder and Director of the Station, receives the support 

 of a number of European governments, who pay an annual subsidy 

 for the use of tables at the rate of £100 a year ; and in addition 

 he receives a grant from the German government. This enables 

 him to keep a permanent staff of skilled assistants, who carry on 

 a zoological observatory. Their investigations are published in 

 Monographs and Bulletins, the cost of which is defrayed in part 

 from their sale, in part from the fees and subsidies paid for the 

 occupation of the thirty-five tables available at Naples, and in part 

 by the Director. The special work of the occupants of the tables 

 is also frequently published at the cost of the station. 



A fine aquarium is maintained at Naples, to which a small 

 entrance fee is charged. At Marseilles, Plymouth, and Banyuls 

 smaller aquaria are also open to the public. At Banyuls and at 

 Naples small steam vessels are owned by the stations, and are em- 

 ployed in collecting material and in making dredging expeditions 

 at moderate depths. At the other stations steamers and boats are 

 hired when needed. , 



It is evident that the status of these two types of stations is 

 very different. In the one, the work of the University Biological 

 Laboratories may be said to continue under the same influences as 

 at« the University. In the other, governments and universities 

 combine to support and foster more extended investigations in 

 natural history than a single institution can be expected to 

 maintain. How far it is the province of a university to assist in 

 carrying on, outside of its own gates, the investigations of others 

 than its students, is a financial question which need not be dis- 

 cussed. While it is eminently proper for governments to promote 

 the interests of such a station as Naples, it remains to be seen 

 how long it will be possible to interest various universities in any 

 institution in the management of which they have no influence. 



The stations at Banyuls and at Roscoff owe their origin and 

 principal support to Professor H. de Lacaze-Duthiers. The stations 

 receive but a small subvention from the Sorbonne, the equipment 

 and the greater part of the running expenses being provided by 

 Professor Lacaze-Duthiers and his friends. Instruction is carried 

 on at both his Marine Laboratories as it would be at the Sorbonne, 



