24 ANNIVERSARY ADDRESS. 



From Prof. Dohrn, Director and Founder of the Naples Zoological Station. 



Naples, 20th July, 1890. 

 Dear Dr. Haswell, — It is with great pleasure that I have heard of your 

 plan to re-establish the Port Jackson Zoological Station scheme. You 

 will certainly meet with the general approval of all leading Biologists, 

 and if you could succeed to combine with any of the steamship companies 

 for reduced prices of transport from Europe to Sydney, I am sure the 

 Zoological Station in Sydney would soon become a centre for Biological 

 Studies. 



I would be glad if this, my opinion would have any influence upon your 

 countrymen in New South Wales. And as I remember the past, when 

 Miklouho-Maclay made his unfortunate attempts, I know that in the 

 Government of your Colony there was a tendency to assist in this line of 

 research ; may this tendency help to the fulfilment of your plans, and 

 may a public subscription be fruitful. Allow me to add to the subscrip- 

 tion «£5, and let me know where I best should send this small sum to. 

 Yours very sincerely, 



Prof. ANTON DOHRN, 

 Director of the Zoological Station of Naples. 



From Prof. W. G. Macintosh, Professor of Natural History (Zoology) in the 

 University of St. Andrew's. 

 St. Andrew's Marine Laboratory, 12th July, 1890. 



My Dear Dr. Haswell, — I cannot too strongly urge upon you the 

 advantage of founding a Zoological Station at Sydney in connection with 

 the Biological teaching at the University ; and I do so not upon mere 

 abstract principles, but from practical experience of a Station in connec- 

 tion with the University here [vide enclosed printed paper.] We are 

 peculiarly fortunate in having the sea in close proximity, and I under- 

 stand you are similarly situated with an even richer sea at Sydney. 



In the first place, it is only at such a Station that students can examine 

 for themselves delicate marine things, can study their development, life 

 histories, and minute structure. It is only there that frail specimens 

 can be systematically procured for lecture-purposes, for practical classes, 

 and for the carrying out of physiological investigations — especially those 

 requiring continuous observation of living forms. It is there that students 

 begin to appreciate the remarkable phases of life, for example, the so- 

 called alteration of generations, phosphorescence in animals, the power 

 of boring in timber, shells, rocks and other solid bodies, and the forma- 

 tion of tubes — often of beautiful structure— which harden in sea- water. 

 The examination of the pelagic egg of a single fish will do more for their 

 knowledge of development than a prolonged course of reading. 



The views of life which are learned there are both appreciable and com- 

 prehensive, and both ordinary and Medical students readily take to the 



