• I The Ancestors.- 1 Heinrich Dohrn.- 2 Carl August Dohrn.- II Youth and Development.- 1 The School Years in Stettin.- 2 Studies.- 3 Jena, 1866.- 4 Friedrich Albert Lange.- 5 The Road to Becoming a Professor.- 6 Messina.- 7 In the Midst of Decisions.- III The Daring Experiment.- 1 The Growth of the Naples Plan.- 2 The Investigative Trip to Naples.- 3 Interruption by the War.- 4 Uncertain Preludes.- 5 The Beginning in Naples.- 6 The Programmatic Essay.- 7 The Building Crisis.- 8 The Road to the Reich and the Confederate States The plan of the »work tables«.- 9 Ffriends and Collaborators in the Early Naples Period.- 10 New Needs and New Help.- IV The Struggle for the Project.- 1 The Station is Opened.- 2 »Commis Voyageur«.- 3 The Organization and Growth of the Station.- 4 Scientific Work and Scientific Polemics.- 5 Robert von Keudell.- 6 The Subsidy from the German Reich.- 7 Marriage and Family.- 8 Italy’s Contribution.- 9 Relationship to Bismarck.- 10 The Laboratory Boat.- V Security and Accomplishment.- 1 Casa Dohrn.- 2 The Rise to Fame.- 3 Separations and Encounters.- 4 Marie Dohrn.- 5 Alexander Davis.- 6 Conflict with Althoff.- 7 The Jubilee.- 8 The Great New Building.- 9 Attempt at a Portrait.- 10 Toward the End.- Postscript.- The House on Rione Amedeo.- Reminiscences of Margret Boveri.- Letters by Anton Dohrn.- Homage to Friedrich Albert Lange.- Ideological Discussion with Haeckel (1867).- Du Bois-Reymond is Told the Plan for the Station (1871).- An Intimate Letter to Grant (1876).- The Plans and the Question of the Call to Berlin (1883).- Feelings of Victory and Conflicts at Home (to his sister) (1884).- On the Death of Ernst Abbe (1905).- Notes and References.- Index of Names.- List of Figures.

"Anton Dohrn (1840-1909) was founder of the once world-famous zoological station at Naples, 'a permanent international congress of zoologists' ...written as a classic 'life and letters', A Life for Science...gives an excellent description of an interesting scientist in touch with the leading biologists of his time." (Arch. of Natural History)