24 CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON. 



PROGRAM. 



1. Introductory address by the director of the station. 



2. Presentation address, by Mr. W. R. T. Jones, governor of the Wawepex 



Society. 



3. Response by Dr. John S. Billings, chairman of the Board of Trustees, Car- 



negie Institution. 



4. Address of welcome to the station on behalf of the Brooklyn Institute by 



Prof. Franklin W. Hooper, director of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and 

 Sciences. 



5. Scientific address. The aims of experimental evolution, by Prof. Hugo de 



Vries, professor of botany at the University of Amsterdam and director of 

 its botanic garden. 



DESCRIPTION OF GROUNDS AND BUILDINGS. 



The land, leased for fifty years to the Carnegie Institution of Wash- 

 ington for a nominal sum, is situated, as shown on the map on page 

 25, at the head of Cold Spring Harbor, about 34 miles from Long 

 Island City by road and rail and 14 miles in a direct line from the 

 boundary of Greater New York. 



The property is bounded on the northeast by the harbor, on the 

 east by the Natchaquatuck creek, on the south by the public high- 

 way, which separates it from the grounds of the New York State 

 fi,sh hatchery, on the west by private grounds and a private road, 

 and on the northwest by the lands of the Wawepex Societj^ leased 

 to the Brookl^'n Institute. The whole lot of land is divided into 

 a smaller and a larger part by a private road. On this piece of 

 land is a large house on the site of the old homestead of John D. 

 Jones and his brothers and sisters, some of whom are still living on 

 Long Island. This house will be used as the director's residence. 

 Something over an acre is reserved as the house plot. Most of the 

 rest of the main plot of some five or six acres is surrounded by a wire 

 fence (77 inches high and supported on iron posts) for the better 

 protection of live-stock and the experimental garden. 



On the wharf there stands a shed, very useful for the tempo- 

 rary shelter of lumber, coal, etc., brought to the station by boat. 

 Just east is a large salt-water fish-pond, and beyond is a small boat 

 and bath house, near which ways will lead to a larger boat-house for 

 the protection of the station launch during the winter. Near this 

 boat-house and inside the main inclosure is a driven well 204 feet 

 deep, flowing 9 gallons per minute. This will supply the residence, 

 stable, and laboratory, by means of an electric pump with a capacity 

 of 15 gallons per minute. It is proposed to supply the tanks in the 

 cellar and first floor of the laboratory from a spring in the ravine. 



The laboratory building, which is being erected under the super- 

 intendence of Messrs. Kirby, Petit & Green, of New York city, by 



