36 CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON. 



My brother, John D. Jones, inherited the family homestead and 

 adjoining grounds. He was born in the family mansion, which 

 was destroyed by fire, and he erected this building on the site of the 

 old house. The Brooklyn Institute desiring a place to establish a 

 school of biology, he put up for that institute a building suitable 

 for its purpose, and the school, under charge of able professors, has 

 been a success, doing original work which has been a credit to Long 

 Island, and acknowledged as such by similar foreign institutions. 

 He also leased to the State of New York grounds for a fish hatchery, 

 which is now turning out each year several hundred thousand trout 

 and salmon to stock the inland waters of the State. 



Seeing the need of an organization to perpetuate the management 

 and care of the grounds and property devoted by him to scientific 

 research, he incorporated the Wawepex Society under the laws of 

 the State of New York governing scientific societies, and the above 

 society has been in charge for several years. The name is taken 

 from an old Indian name of the harbor. Mr. Jones, one of the 

 incorporators of the society, at its meeting January 25, 1892, to 

 organize, was chosen as governor, and was continued in that office 

 until his death, September 22, 1895. 



This year the Carnegie Institution, attracted by the advantages of 

 the locality, has asked for a fifty-years' lease of part of the grounds, 

 taking in this house, for carrying out experiments in evolution, prom- 

 ising to put up a special building for that purpose, and the lease has 

 been granted. It gives great pleasure to the Wawepex Society to pass 

 over to the representatives of the Carnegie Institution the papers 

 putting that institution in possession of as much of the property as it 

 desires for erecting buildings to carry out its experiments. I trust in 

 going back and investigating, as far as possible, the origin and order 

 in creation it will find nothing to interfere with the doctrine of the 

 church just around the corner, erected largely b}^ aid of family 

 relatives, in its efforts for improving morals and explaining to the 

 best of its ability life hereafter. 



With these three institutions hailing from our village, it will 

 assuredly soon become well known and appreciated both at home 

 and abroad. 



