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or associations may rent tables at which naturalists may work. By this 
means the station assumed an international character and remained 
free from governmental control, to develop under the wise direction and 
tireless energy of its founder, unimpeded by bureaucratic interference 
or the cumbersome machinery of a commission. At the cost of $500 a 
year a table may be taken and allotted to investigators in succession 
for the longer or shorter periods desired. All the resources of the 
institution are thus available to such an occupant without cost to him- 
self. At present fifty tables are under contract. Germany has twenty- 
two tables, of which eleven are provided for by an imperial grant of 
twenty thousand Marks, while, in addition, Prussia has four and 
Bavaria, Saxony, Wiirttemburg, Baden, Hessen, Hamburg and the 
University of Strassburg, one each. Italy has twelve tables, Russia 
four, Austria two, Hungary, Holland, Belgium, Switzerland and the 
Roumanian Academy, each one. In England the universities of Oxford 

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