THE DIRECTOR S REPORT. 17 



Naturalist it commemorates, and will be an incentive to visit 

 the site of his last undertaking. 



The tablet bears the following inscription : 



In Commemoration 



of the 



ANDERSON SCHOOL OF NATURAL HISTORY 



Established Fifty Years Ago on the 



Island of Penikese 



by 

 JEAN Louis RODOLPHE AGASSIZ 



Born 1807 Died 1873 



The Marine Biological Laboratory 



the Direct Descendant of the 



Penikese School Erects this Tablet 



i 923 



A few days after the meeting a party of naturalists went to 

 Penikese with a mason, and the tablet was set on the highest 

 boulder of the island. The replica has been set opposite the 

 memorial tablet of Professor Whitman in the entrance to the 

 Crane Building. 



It was hoped that three members of the staff of the Penikese 

 Laboratory would be present to speak at the exercises: Doctor 

 E. S. Morse, Doctor Burt G. Wilder, and Doctor David Starr 

 Jordan; but of these only Doctor Morse was able to attend. 

 Doctor Wilder sent his greetings, and Doctor Jordan sent an 

 address prepared for the meeting which was read by Dr. Drew. 1 



The Director presided and made the opening remarks ; Profes- 

 sor Morse spoke of his experiences on Penikese and his recollec- 

 tions of Agassiz; Dr. Cornelia M. Clapp gave an account of the 

 second session of the Penikese Laboratory which she attended 

 and furnished a roster of the attendance of the first session 

 which had never been published. Dr. H. C. Bumpus spoke of 

 the intermediate history of the Island, and Professor E. G. 

 Conklin traced the origin of the Marine Biological Laboratory 

 from the same fertile source. 



1 Since published in the Scientific Monthly. 

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