Marine Biology in the United States.

Abstract

THERE has recently been issued the first Annual Report of the Marine Biological Laboratory at Wood's Holl, Mass. The Laboratory is an outgrowth of a smaller predecessor maintained at Annisquam, Mass., for six years, by the Woman's Education Association of Boston, in co-operation with the Boston Society of Natural History; and the locality where it is pitched is one which has been in especial favour with marine zoologists of the New World, from Alex. Agassiz downwards. The edifice is a small one (63 x 28 feet), two stories high, of plain but very substantial build. It has been especially designed for the purpose to which it is put, and there are eight private rooms available for the use of investigators. Conspicuous among the names of those chiefly concerned in its maintenance are those of persons known to be familiar with the workings of the leading biological laboratories abroad; and Dr. C. O. Whitman, of Milwaukee, has accepted the office of Honorary Director. It is thus manifest that, in the selection of those who are to control the working of their enterprise, the promoters have secured the services of those of their countrymen whose influence would be most conducive to a successful issue.