THE HARP SWELL LABORATORY 



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Steamship Company maintains throughout the year a line of steamers 

 between this port and that of New York. A day line and a night line 

 of steamers ply between Portland and Boston, while the down-east 

 ports, St. Johns and the St. Lawrence country are made accessible by 

 other steamship lines. In general, the rates of passage on these lines is 

 low and there is afforded a most comfortable and convenient mode of 

 travel. 



The laboratory is situated in the little fishing village of South 

 Harpswell. A line of steamers sending a boat from Portland every 

 two hours, on the average, throughout the day, is utilized in the main 

 for reaching the laboratory. One may, if he desire, go overland to 

 Brunswick, the seat of Bowdoin College, fourteen miles up Harpswell 

 Neck. From Brunswick, Portland may be reached by trolley or by rail, 

 or by a line of steamers running from the jSTew Meadows Eiver to 

 Portland. 



The Portland Public Library and the Library of the Portland Soci- 

 ety of Natural History may be called upon for literature not supplied 

 at the laboratory. The latter institution has, too, collections of the ani- 

 mals and plants from the surrounding region, identified by some of our 

 well-known systematists, such as Emerton and others. 



It is not, however, the buildings and accessories that attract the 

 worker, but rather the living material. HarjDSwell has nothing to fear 

 in rivalry with sister laboratories, wherever they may be, in wealth of 

 material. In order to set this feature of the case clearly before the 



Fig. 2. Interior of the Laboeatory^ looking northward. 



