page_title: Anton Dohrn
section_title: Development of "zoological stations"
hierarchical_section_title: Anton Dohrn / Development of "zoological stations"
caption_attribution_description: English: Work stations in the laboratory Text reads The laboratories contain accommodation for over fifty scientific men to work, and each such work-place, known technically as a table,consists either of a small room or of an alcove or a portion screened off from a larger room. Such tables are rented at £100 a year, not to individuals,but to states or universities or committees, and of the fiftyfive tables at present available about thirty-four are permanently engaged thus bringing in a considerable annual subsidy to the administration. Germany takes some ten of these tables, and Italy seven.There are, I believe, three American tables one belonging to the Women's Association and there are three English (rented by the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford and the British Association respectively),consequently there are generally about half-a-dozen English and American biologists at work in the station; but Dr. Dohrn interprets in a most liberal spirit the rules as to the occupancy of a table, and, as a matter of fact, during a recent visit of the present writer there were, for a short time, no less than three of us on the books occupying simultaneously the British Association table, but in reality all provided with separate rooms File:PSM V77 D228 The laboratory of an investigator.png Figure and text from THE GREATEST BIOLOGICAL STATION IX THE WORLD.By Professor W. a. HERDMAN, F.R.S., UNIVERSITY COLLEGE,- LIVERPOOL.THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY.SEPTEMBER,1901.
context_page_description: Felix Anton Dohrn FRS FRSE was a prominent German Darwinist and the founder and first director of the first zoological research station in the world, the Stazione Zoologica in Naples, Italy.
context_section_description: From 1850 to 1852 Carl Vogt had lived in Nice where he tried unsuccessfully to enlist support for a marine zoological station (one was later established as Observatoire Oceanologique de Villefranche). In Messina, Dohrn and Miklouho-Maclay conceived a plan to cover the globe with a network of zoological research stations, analogous to railway stations, where scientists could stop, collect material, make observations and conduct experiments, before moving on to the next station.
  Dohrn realised how useful it would be for scientists to arrive at a location and find a ready to use laboratory. Dohrn rented two rooms for the "Stazione Zoologica di Messina", but quickly realized the technical difficulties of studying marine life without a permanent structure and support facilities, such as trained personnel and a library.
caption: Work stations in the Naples laboratory in 1901
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