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for accommodations are scarce in Woods Holl, and students can 

 not pay summer-hotel prices. On the other is the admirably 

 equipped Laboratory. On the ground-floor is the fish-hatching 

 room, where each year millions of cod, lobsters, and other valu- 

 able animals are carried through the critical period of their exist- 

 ence before being turned into the ocean to shift for themselves. 

 On the same floor are the public aquaria stocked with the most 

 interesting and most attractive animals of the region. The sec- 

 ond floor is devoted to laboratories for students and offices for the 

 clerical force. Between the dormitory and the laboratory is the 

 pumping station which forces a constant stream of salt water 

 through the aquaria. 



Attracted, not only by the natural advantages of the place, but 

 also by the advantages to be gained by proximity to such an in- 

 stitution as the Fish Commission, the Marine Biological Labora- 

 tory was located here. This institution is an evolution, and its 

 embryonic history possesses a certain interest. 



For several years, Professor Alpheus Hyatt, of the Boston 

 Society of Natural History, with some of his pupils, spent the 

 summer months in natural history studies at the quaint little 

 fishing village of Annisquam, on the north shore of Cape Ann. 

 The facilities afforded, limited as they were, were highly appre- 

 ciated by those who came, and more than could be accommodated 

 desired each year to profit by them. 



One of the many Boston " isms " is its Woman's Education 

 Association, and a world of good it has done. If any scheme can 

 be shown to promise good results for the education of women, the 

 society will see that the money and all that is necessary are soon 

 forthcoming. So with the humble beginnings at Annisquam ; if 

 women could be accommodated, the problem could be easily 

 solved. So the Association provided the money, a building was 

 hired and equipped with the absolutely necessary furniture and 

 apparatus, and on June 15, 1881, the first student began his work 

 in the Annisquam Laboratory. For six years this institution was 

 kept up ; a hundred students worked there with scalpel and mi- 

 croscope, and the laboratory fully demonstrated its raison d'etre. 



It is a principle of the Woman's Education Association to 

 carry its projects through the experimental stage, but no further. 

 If, then, they have shown their necessity or utility, the Associa- 

 tion takes the necessary steps to put the institution upon an inde- 

 pendent footing. So with the Annisquam Laboratory. It supplied 

 a want, and must be made permanent. As a result of several 

 meetings in Boston, the Marine Biological Laboratory was incor- 

 porated in the spring of 1888, and to it was transferred all the 

 property, etc., of its Annisquam predecessor. 



The new was, however, to be greater than" the old. At Annis- 



