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Dr. Hollandt, in charge of the microscopic sections department—all of them well-known men, each eminent in his own line of investigation.

The post of assistant in the physiological department formerly held by the late Dr. Schoenlein is now vacant.

3. In addition to these scientific heads of departments there are:—the secretary, Mr. Linden, two painters, and the chief engineer; and, finally, about thirty attendants, collectors and others employed, in the laboratories, in the collecting and preserving departments, in the aquarium and elsewhere.

This may seem at the first thought a very large staff, but the activities of the institution are most varied and far-reaching, and every thing that is undertaken is carried to a high standard of perfection. Whether it he in the exposition of living animals to the public in the wonderful tanks of the 'Acquario,' in the collection and preparation of choice specimens for museums, in the supply of laboratory material and mounted microscopic objects to universities, in the facilities afforded

for research, or in the educational influence and inspiration which all young workers in the laboratory feel—in each and all of these directions the Naples station has a world-wide renown. And the best proof of this reputation for excellence is seen in the long list of biologists from all civilized countries who year after year obtain material from the station or enroll as workers in the laboratory. Close on 1,200 naturalists have now, since the opening of the zoological station in 1873, occupied work-tables, and, as these men have come from and gone back to practically all the important laboratories of the world, Naples may