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voted £100 last year for the same purpose, making altogether 
£2,350 from Germany alone—“ a truly noble support,” remarks 
this report, “when it is borne in mind that the nation has no 
greater direct participation in the advantages of the station than 
any other country or association that may hire a table.” 
The report further states that arrangements were being made for 
the establishment of a small station at Messina as a dependency 
of the one at Naples, and that for this additional advantage several 
lessors of tables have agreed to raise their contributions from £75 
to £90, and the Committee recommend the British Association to 
follow this example. 
As many working naturalists have very little money to spare 
for travelling, Dr. Dohrn has set on foot a scheme for the founda- 
tion of a travelling fund for the benefit of naturalists who may be 
nominated for the tables, and in his recent letter to Baron 
Maclay, he expresses a hope that something of the same kind will 
be done for the proposed station at Sydney. The report to the 
British Association concludes with a list of eighteen papers that had 
been published during the year by workers at the Naples station, 
together with a long list of naturalists to whom specimens and 
microscopic preparations had been sent from the station. 
From this brief notice of the zoological station at Naples 
—the first and best of these modern institutions for the 
practical study of living organisms—I turn again to the 
more modest establishment that Baron Maclay has initiated 
here. He has pointed out in his paper to the Linnean Society 
that Australia is a tempting field for a zoological station. He 
says—* Next after the tropics (which are the richest in animal 
life) the widest field offered to the investigator of nature, and. 
consequently the most suitable region for the establishment of 
zoological stations is Australia, with a fauna so interesting, so 
important, and so very far from sufficiently known, especially as 
regards anatomy and embryology. Such a country would be the 
place for a zoological station, or to speak more correctly, for several 
such stations.” And for beginning the work in Australia, the 
