TABLE OF CONTENTS EDITORIAL REMARKS xv ACKNOWLEDGMENTS XVI INTRODUCTION XVII PREFACE • 1940 XXIX PREFACE • 1948 XXXIII PREFACE; 1962 XXXV I THE ANCESTORS 1 HEINRICH DOHRN The Posen surgeon. Foundation of a Stettin business. Transition to industry. 1 2 CARL AUGUST DOHRN A natural musical talent. Family conflict. Friendship with A. von Humboldt. Years of traveling. Collection of folksongs. At the Court of Friedrich Wilhelm iv. Spanish plays. Leader of the German entomologists. Parliamentary interlude. Adelheid Dohrn. 5 v http://d-nb.info/910694044 TABLE OF CONTENTS II YOUTH AND DEVELOPMENT I THE SCHOOL YEARS IN STETTIN The spirit of the parents' home. Gymnasium. The sixteen-year-old expert writer. Natural science as his life's goal. 29 z STUDIES Konigsberg. Bonn. His service in the Hussars. Bad luck in his military career. Jena. Friendship with Ernst Haeckel. Berlin. In the circle of Stahr-Lewald. 33 3 JENA, 1866 Awakening through Darwin. Demarcation against Haeckel. Political radicalism. Position in the German question. 44 4 FRIEDRICH ALBERT LANGE A reprimanded teacher. Farewell to materialism. Turning to Kant. Socioeconomic studies. 51 5 THE ROAD TO BECOMING A PROFESSOR Haeckel's General Morphology. Should Dohrn go to Hamburg? First English impressions. Robertson and Huxley. The friends in Jena. Ernst Abbe. »Habilitation«. A collapse. Examining the scientific position. 57 6 MESSINA The transportable aquarium. On the Sicilian coast. The family G. I. von Baranowski. VI 74 TABLE OF CONTENTS 7 IN THE MIDST OF DECISIONS Teaching activity in Jena. History of the crayfish family. Darwinism and psychology. Friendship with Carl Vogt. 80 III THE DARING EXPERIMENT 1 THE GROWTH OF THE NAPLES PLAN Opposition of the father. An aquarium is supposed to finance research! The philosopher's stone. 87 2 THE INVESTIGATIVE TRIP TO NAPLES Naples around 1870. First encounters. In the Municipio. Adventurous characters. The contract with the city is shaped. The space in Villa Reale. Impossible exacting demands. Withdrawal from Jena. 92 3 INTERRUPTION BY THE WAR Military service. On the meaning of the Franco-German War. Leave to go to England. Visit with Darwin. 105 4 UNCERTAIN PRELUDES A letter ofcredit by his father. On the unsuccessful search for money. Approval of the scientists. How does one build an aquarium? Counsel by Alfred Brehm. 109 5 THE BEGINNING IN NAPLES The trip with Rudolf Virchow. Conflict with the architect. Political change of personnel in Naples. The provisional building permit. 114 TABLE OF CONTENTS 6 THE PROGRAMMATIC ESSAY The present state of zoology. Reform of research. The necessity of comparative physiology. 120 7 THE BUILDING CRISIS Wrong measurement. The threatening prohibition. The salvation of the enterprise by Baron Savarese. 124 8 THE ROAD TO THE REICH AND THE CONFEDERATE STATES The plan of the »work tables«. Visit to the Secretaries R. von Delbriick and A. Falk. Connection with the Prussian Academy. Standstill. Crownprince Friedrich Wilhelm. 128 9 FFRIENDS AND COLLABORATORS IN THE EARLY NAPLES PERIOD Charles Grant. Nikolaus Kleinenberg. Hugo Eisig. Hans von Marees and Adolf Hildebrand. The growing of the »Naples frescoes«. In Palazzo Torlonia. Engagement to Marie von Baranowska. 13 5 10 NEW NEEDS AND NEW HELP Acquisition of »work tables« in Germany and abroad. Technical mishaps. Exhaustion. 147 VIII TABLE OF CONTENTS IV THE STRUGGLE FOR THE PROJECT I THE STATION IS OPENED The first scientists arrive. Friendship with Frank Balfour. The first visitors of the Aquarium. 153 2 »COMMIS VOYAGEUR« Restraint of the capitalists. Count Moltke. Heinrich Dohrn enters Parliament. Success in Petersburg. Travel, travel, travel. 158 3 THE ORGANIZATION AND GROWTH OF THE STATION Botanical research. The »education« of the scientists. The Neapolitan fishermen. The German Academy of Sciences donates a steamer. The beginning of the great scientific library. Their own publications: Mittheilungen, Zoologischer Jahresbericht, Fauna und Flora. Development of methods of conservation. Lobianco's mastery. Paul Mayer and Abbe's microscope. The human »atmosphere« in the Station. Hermann Linden. The art of guiding human beings. 164 4 SCIENTIFIC WORK AND SCIENTIFIC POLEMICS »The origin of vertebrates.« Dohrn's theory of annelids. The question of genealogy. The »principle of change in functions K. E. von Baer. The conflict with Gegenbaur. 178 5 ROBERT VON KEUDELL Keudell's career. Dohrn's first decoration. Extension of the contract with Naples. Keudell's Memorial of 1878. 185 IX TABLE OF CONTENTS 6 THE SUBSIDY FROM THE GERMAN REICH Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm and Prince Karl. Difficulties about the constitution. The Secretary of State von Biilow. Currents in the Reichstag. Helmholtz, du Bois-Reymond, Virchow petition. The Yes of the Reichstag. 190 7 MARRIAGE AND FAMILY Happiness and sorrow. Quarters in Portici. Ill-humor in Hokendorf. »Disinherited«. Reconciliation of the conflict. Dohrn on his father. 199 8 ITALY'S CONTRIBUTION A donation by Charles Darwin. Relationship of Dohrn with Italian fishery. Friendship with the military Navy. Naples' public opinion is won. Italy builds the physiological laboratory, 1886. 210 9 RELATIONSHIP TO BISMARCK The man of sharp opposition. Change in Dohrn's image of Bismarck. Bismarck's complaint about Heinrich Dohrn. The Chancellor's distrust. Rejection. Herbert Bismarck. 218 10 THE LABORATORY BOAT »I am a Pomeranian«. The »floating Station«. The »central committee« for the promotion of the Zoological Station under Gossler. x 224 TABLE OF CONTENTS V SECURITY AND ACCOMPLISHMENT I CASA DOHRN Their own home. Dohrn's position in the cultural relations between Germany and Italy. The spirit of the home. 231 2 THE RISE TO FAME The far reach of the Station. France and the United States. Fridtjof Nansen. Dohrn becomes professor and »Geheimrat«. Offer of positions. 237 3 SEPARATIONS AND ENCOUNTERS Keudell leaves Rome. Death of Werner v. Siemens. The ambassadors in Rome. Wilhelm 11 as patron of the Station. Dohrn and the Emperor. Political reflections. Relationship with Bernhard von Biilow. 4 MARIE DOHRN Nature and character. Sickness. »Nobody walks with impunity under palms.« Shadows. Dohrn and the Baranowskis. Marie Dohrn as translator. The years of separation. 251 5 ALEXANDER DAVIS The friend from America. Dohrn saves the Villa Floridiana for Naples. A generous helper. The new house on Ischia. 261 XI TABLE OF CONTENTS 6 CONFLICT WITH ALTHOFF Helgoland and Rovigno. Bacteriology. Pension fund. Fr. Althoff. Departmental struggle between the Reich and Prussia. Wilhelm ii intervenes. Colonial politics and research. z66 7 THE JUBILEE Honorary Doctor conferred on Dohrn at Oxford and Cambridge. Trip to the United States. The Jubilee of 1897. Honorary Citizen of Naples. The diary. Visitors in Naples. Fr. Alfred Krupp. The Berlin circle. The death of Abbe. 280 8 THE GREAT NEWBUILDING Naples donates the new lot. The Aquarium produces growing income. New goals of science. The successful collection of income. 293 9 ATTEMPT AT A PORTRAIT External appearance. Working pace. Of money matters. Depressions. Conversation and letter. Music. Reading. Goethe. Church problems. Political reflections. On Friedrich Naumann. 300 10 TOWARD THE END The sons' decisions on careers. Reinhard Dohrn enters the Station. Giesbrecht. Problems of education. Sickness and death. XII 316 TABLE OF CONTENTS POSTSCRIPT Alfred Kiihn on Dohrn's position in the history of science. The fate of the station in and after World War i. Reinhard Dohrn's achievements. Centennial celebration. The saving of the work in the new war. Fates. 329 THE HOUSE ON RIONE AMEDEO REMINISCENCES OF MARGRET BOVERI 343 LETTERS BY ANTON DOHRN HOMAGE TO FR. A. LANGE (1866) 349 IDEOLOGICAL DISCUSSION WITH HAECKEL (1867) 35i Du BOIS-REYMOND IS TOLD THE PLAN FOR THE STATION (1871) 355 AN INTIMATE LETTER TO GRANT (1876) 357 THE PLANS AND THE QUESTION OF THE CALL TO BERLIN (1883) 360 FEELINGS OF VICTORY AND CONFLICTS AT HOME (TO HIS SISTER) (1884) 366 ONTHE DEATH OF ERNST ABBE (1905) 369 TABLE OF CONTENTS NOTES AND REFERENCES 371 INDEX OF NAMES ill LIST OF FIGURES 401 .