Stazione Zoologica

Stazione Zoologica in 1870

Stazione Zoologica in 2010

The Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn is a research institute in Naples, Italy, devoted to basic research in biology. Research is largely interdisciplinary involving the fields of evolution, biochemistry, molecular biology, neurobiology, cell biology, biological oceanography, marine botany, molecular plant biology, benthic ecology, and ecophysiology.

Founded in 1872 as a private concern by Anton Dohrn, in 1982 the Stazione Zoologica came under the supervision and control of the Ministero dell'Università e della Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica (Ministry of Universities and Scientific and Technological Research) as a National Institute.

People associated with SZN

• Raphael Weldon, who visited in summer 1882, working on Lacerta muralis, the common wall lizard, and then later (on his honeymoon) in spring 1883. Pearson's obituary of Weldon (p.10) reports that "At Easter (1884) Banyuls was visited, and the summer vacation found Weldon in Naples again for the three months preparing his fellowship dissertation (for Cambridge). In Naples the cholera had broken out, and the Weldons experienced not only difficulty in getting the precious dissertation back to England, but in returning themselves."
• F.M.Balfour (See Letter 9289 — Charles Darwin to F.A. Dohrn 13 Feb 1874: "F. M. Balfour to visit Naples").[1]
• Jerome Y. Lettvin Researched octopus visual neurophysiology in the summers of 1959, 1961, and 1963.

External links

• Homepage of the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn
• History of the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn
• BHL Guide to the aquarium of the Zoological station at Naples. Leipzig :Breitkopf & Härtel,1896.

Coordinates: 40°49′58″N 14°14′09″E / 40.8327°N 14.2358°E / 40.8327; 14.2358