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Fisheries, and by members of the Laboratory in their homes. 

 The balance of the members came next morning, and all were 

 greeted by Professor Whitman for the Marine Biological Lab- 

 oratory and Doctor Sumner for the Bureau of Fisheries. In- 

 spection of the laboratories followed and lunch was served at 

 the Mess. In the afternoon the U. S. Fish Commission steamer, 

 " Fish Hawk," carried the party to New Bedford, where they 

 embarked for New York. 



A special feature of the occasion was the signing of a greeting 

 to the director of the Zoological Station of Naples. The names 

 signed to this greeting (see p. 45) constitute the only roster of 

 attendance at Woods Hole. 



Publications of the Laboratory. A research institution with a 

 resident staff has a ready record of its achievements in the publi- 

 cations of its members. But a large part of the achievements of 

 an institution such as ours consists in somewhat elusive influences, 

 and it is difficult to estimate the concrete achievements in the 

 way of publications because in many cases only a part of each 

 research which is undertaken at the laboratory is actually accom- 

 plished there. In many cases it is the chief part ; in other cases 

 only a secondary part. It is perhaps for this reason that the only 

 report on publications from the laboratory is a partial one made 

 in 1895. In preparing the list of publications from the Marine 

 Biological Laboratory (see p. 57) which forms part of the 

 director's report, all those who have worked at the Laboratory 

 were requested to furnish a list of their publications based 

 wholly or in part on work accomplished at the Marine Biological 

 Laboratory. The labor of compilation has been a considerable 

 one, and is only approximately complete. However, the great 

 majority of investigators have been most kind in furnishing 

 lists of their own publications and it is believed that the list 

 will give a more adequate conception than anything else of the 

 activities of the Laboratory in research. 



