1893.] Notes on Marine Laboratories of Europe. ee A 
soon scattered over the deck and filled with the dredge con- 
tents. Some of the passengers are quickly at work sorting out 
their material, this one seizing brachiopods, another compound 
ascidians, another sponges. Others will wait until the surface 
nets have been brought in and the contents turned into jars. 
All will depend upon Lo Bianco as an appellate judge in 
matters of identification. 
Many Americans have availed themselves of the privileges 
of Naples and the former lack of support of an American 
table needs little comment. Of those who have hitherto 
visited Naples not less than three-quarters have been indebted 
to the courtesies of German universities. At present, of the 
two American tables, one is supported by the Smithsonian 
Institution, the other by gift of Mr. Agassiz. 
The entire Italian coast is so rich in its fauna that it is due 
perhaps, only to the greatness of Naples, that so few stations 
have been founded. Messina has its interesting laboratory well 
known in the work of its director, Prof. Kleinenberg. The 
Adriatie, especially favorable for collecting, has at Istria a 
small station on the Dalmatian coast, and at Trieste is the 
Austrian station. 
TRIESTE. 
Trieste possesses one of the oldest and most honored of 
Marine Observatories, although its station is but small in 
comparison with that of Naples, Plymouth or Roscoff. Its 
work has in no small way been limited by scanty income; it 
has offered the investigator fewer advantages and has there- 
fore become outrivalled. During a greater part of the year it 
is but little more than the supply station of the University of 
Vienna, providing fresh material for the students of Professor 
Claus. Its percentage of foreign investigators appears small ; 
its visitors are usually from Vienna and of its university. 
Trieste is in itself a small but busy city, growing in active 
commerce. Its quays are massive and bristle with odd shaped 
shipping of the Eastern Mediterranean. Its deep and basin 
like harbor affords a collecting ground as rich as the Gulf of 
Naples. 
