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Founded in 1872 in the gardens of the Villa Comunale beside the seafront of Naples, the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn is the oldest scientific aquarium in the world and one of the most important marine research institutions in the Mediterranean. The aquarium open to the public is the publicly visible front of a much larger research operation that has shaped marine biology for more than a century and a half. The institution was founded by the German zoologist Anton Dohrn, who believed that the ...