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AT the recent meeting of the British Association at Leeds, much difficulty was experienced in obtaining the renewal of the vote for the occupation, by a British naturalist, of a table at the Zoological Station at Naples—a grant which has received the sanction of the Committee of Recommendations of the Association for many successive years. It was alleged, we believe, that the Zoological Station at Naples was used by those sent to it rather for educational purposes than as a place for original research, and objections were also raised, perhaps with greater force, to the policy of continuing to support an already thriving institution for an indefinite period. Had it not been for the munificence of an individual member of the Association, Captain Andrew Noble, C.B., F.R.S., who kindly offered to supply the debated sum of £100, the Association could not have continued, during the present year, to send naturalists to work at the Naples Station.
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S., P. The Zoological Station of Naples. Nature 43, 392–393 (1891). https://doi.org/10.1038/043392a0
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