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hold our ideals will depend on the influence we can bring to 

 bear, and in this all-important matter the Corporation can have, 

 and will have, I trust, earnest work to perform. 



SUMMARY STATEMENT. 



Laboratories. The biological laboratories of to-day are almost 

 exclusively devoted to the study of " pickled ' animals and 

 plants. They have very few and inadequate facilities for the 

 study of living organisms. This is a limitation for which no 

 remedy has thus far been provided. 



Field-work. For the study of development, growth, life- 

 histories, species, habits, instincts, intelligence, heredity, variation, 

 adaptation, hybridisation, etc., we can neither depend upon the 

 laboratory nor upon the field-work of naturalists. A world-wide 

 field in which there can be no control of the forms to be studied, 

 and no possibility of continuity in observation or opportunity for 

 experiment obviously does not meet the requirements of science. 



Biological Farm. The laboratory is too narrow, and the world 

 too wide for the continuous study of living organisms, under 

 conditions that can be definitely known and controlled. For 

 such study, selected groups of organisms and a limited territory, 

 with favorable conditions of land, water and food are needed. 

 Territory, living organisms and scientific staff would constitute a 

 new plant, which might be called a Biological Farm. 



Grounds. - -The grounds of a biological farm would vary in 

 extent with the growth of the work, from ten to a hundred or 

 more acres. Land, woods, fresh-water ponds, sea-shore and 

 islands would make a good combination. 



Location. The location of headquarters should be at a biological 

 center, near laboratories drawing a large number of investigators, 

 but at a safe distance from any large city or summer resort. 

 These prime advantages of situation superadded to the excep- 

 tional natural advantages of available grounds are represented at 

 Wood's Roll. 



Natural Conditions. - - A biological farm should include the 

 largest possible diversity of natural conditions to insure wide 

 freedom of development and opportunity for experimentation. 



