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world, and shows how time and opportunities may be lost throu, 
the want of a suitable place for undisturbed work. It was, indeed, 
from the personal experience of Baron Maclay and Dr. Dohrn, whi e 
working together at Messina in 1868, that the idea of establishi 
zoological stations first arose. In the following year the question 
ceivedafurther impulse at a Congress of Naturalists at Moscow; a 
under the care of Dr. Dohrn, and chiefly at his own expense, 
first practical realization of the idea was obtained at Napl 
where a zoological station was opened in 1875. Other statio 
followed in Europe and America, but even yet there are only abo 
half a dozen in all. The success of the station at Naples has be 
most marked. It is now a large establishment with a very ¢0 
plete equipment, not only in the building but in out-door appli- 
ances as well, such as boats (including a steamer), dredges, divi 
apparatus, &c., and in the early part of this year, as I learn from 
letter addressed to Baron Maclay by Dr. Dohrn, there were twen 
five men of science carrying on original investigations with pa 
assistants to the number of thirty-four. Three scientific periodic a 
are kept up by contributions from that station. The expense 
of such an establishment are necessarily large, and are met pi rt 
by payments for tables used, and partly by liberal donations 170 
the German Government. The charge for a table is £T5p 
annum. Several of these tables are subscribed for by scientl 
bodies, who then acquire the right of nominating a worker. + 
British Association, for example, pays for a table, and pane e 
an annual report on the subject and summarises what has ! 
done during the year. In the report presented last year 
stated that the establishment had been placed upon a more 8? 
footing than previously by a grant from the German Gove 
equivalent to £1,500, and which was understood to be annual: 
towards the publications of the station} and the Berlin 
