GENERAL INTRODUCTION
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right to nominate workers, and there are
of the great
zoologists of Europe or America who have not worked at
Naples during the past fty years.
During the War the
station was taken over by the Italian Government, but
since then it has been restored to the present Director,Professor R. Dohrn, the son of the founder who died in
1909, but it_still remains partly under Italian management.”
Even more commanding in its position and architecture
is the wonderful museum, laboratory and aquarium founded
at Monaco
(Plate 5) by the late Prince Albert, one of the
most
distinguished…:oi oceanographers.
Everyone interested in zoology o__r oceanography should endeavour to visit
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the museum, which contains specimens of all types of marine
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life, every form of apparatus used in the investigation of
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the sea—even to a model of the laboratory used by the
Prince and his scientic staff on their numerous cruises
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on his famous yacht the Princesse Alice.
There is a per—
manent'sta’ of scientists at the Station but the amount of
work carried out, by outside inveStigators is small.
In this country the largest and most important marine
station is the Plymouth Laboratory of the Marine Biological
Association (Plate 6_)_ which -is now one“ of the leading
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institutions of its kind inthe world.
This was founded in
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1884 and has since then been several times.extended, a
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special wing devoted to the study of the physiology, or
functioning, of marine animals having been added only
three years ago.
Ihe permanent scientic stà is larger
than at any other station, consisting of_ a Director, eight
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naturalists, and tour chemists and phySiologists, so that
not only is a
aquarium maintained and the wants of '
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the many visiting soietists, who come from all, countries,
attended to, buta great volume of scientic work is annually
produced, much of it concerned with seasonal changes in
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the sea water and the contained population, vrork which
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