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Neighbors, we have been already for some time acquainted, and 

 if I have long desired to have the station stand in this community 

 it was because I knew that you would appreciate our work and be 

 glad to assist it. We have already received the largest confirmation 

 of our belief. Generous proffers of use of land, of building mate- 

 rials, of cooperation on a larger or smaller scale, have come to us on 

 every hand. The gift that calls forth additional gifts has unlimited 

 possibilities, and alreadj'the Trustees of the Carnegie Institution have 

 cause for self-congratulation on having selected as the site for this 

 station a community of such intelligence, resources, and generosity. 



Scientific colleagues, this station belongs to the men of science 

 who can use it for the purpose to which it is dedicated. The staff 

 are servants of biological science and seek its advancement — not 

 their own. Rejoice with us for the new opportunity that has come 

 to our science. We look to you for collaboration, for cooperation, 

 and for criticism and advice. With such assistance, this station 

 must succeed in achieving the ends for which it is founded. 



Address of Presentation by W. R. T. Jones, Governor of 



THE Wawepex Society. 



Representatives of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, ladies, 

 and gentlemen : 



Cold Spring has experienced several distinct changes since Prime, 

 in 1845, wrote his history of Long Island. He devoted to it just 

 four lines, describing it as "a considerable village in the northwest 

 corner of the town (Huntington), lying on a harbor known by the 

 same name. ' ' The village had long possessed two factories and a 

 flour-mill, which were of great benefit to the neighboring farmers in 

 taking their wool and grinding their grain ; also two or three stores, 

 all doing a small paying business. With the introduction of the 

 whale-fishery business the village awoke to a real boom. Buildings 

 were erected to accommodate this business, houses built for the em- 

 ployees, and in my early days the village, especially on the west side, 

 showed its activity by noises from the continued hammering of iron, 

 the resounding echo from the coopering shops, the clanging of boat- 

 builders, and the buzzing of saws. When this business became no 

 longer profitable, the place soon appeared like a deserted village — 

 houses became vacant, buildings unused, and everywhere neglect 

 and decay. 



