224 THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY 
August Dohrn, his first two papers, published in his eighteenth year, 
were upon Hemiptera. Until 1881 his work was mostly concerned 
with the insects and other arthropods including his monograph on the 
Pantopoda for the Fauna and Flora of the Bay of Naples. However, 
as early as 1876, appeared the first of Dohrn’s brilliant and suggestive 
papers on the origin of the vertebrates. Working upon the basis of 
embryological studies in such forms as the Ascidians, Amphioxus, the 

THE ZOOLOGICAL STATION FROM THE EAST. 
Cyclostomes, sharks, bony-fishes, and other vertebrates, Dohrn traced 
the phylogeny of the vertebrates to the annelid worms. Beyond their 
theoretical bearing upon a question still debatable, his discoveries con- 
stitute substantial additions to comparative anatomy and embryology. 
The investigators at the station find intellectual and esthetic en- 
joyment in historic Naples and its neighborhood. Among the marbles 
and bronzes of the National Museum one finds such masterpieces as 
the Hera Farnese and the Narcissus. In Pompeii the uncovered 
auditorium and the uncurtained stage of the great theater seem to voice 
the awful tragedy of 79 in spite of the roses and larkspurs blooming 
