Recognition of Plant Bacturiology in Europf. 3^9 



and none now to be rented — all taken. . . Toilay it is warm in the wind- 

 sheltered places, but cool near the water, which is very beautiful in clear 

 weather and dotted with ships lar^c and small. 



The thini^s drcdi^ed out ot the sea are also very curious and interesting. 

 Boats iio out every day, and each brings back strant;e animal and plant 

 forms. 



The Marine Biological Laboratory had rescued and resurrected 

 the region's great scientific inheritance bequeathed by Louis 

 Agassiz from his historic Anderson's School of Natural History 

 on nearby Penikesc Island. While not a direct descendant of 

 Agassiz's institution,'" the Laboratory was, nevertheless, an heir 

 to the great tradition of scientific instruction and investigation, 

 and had added much in branches of study. Invertebrate zoology 

 established in 1888, marine botany at least half of which con- 

 sisted of algal studies and commenced about 1890, general physi- 

 ology started about 1892, and embryology about 1893, had each 

 been kept in the foreground of research and instruction. About 

 1892 studies in the medical as well as biological '^ sciences became 

 more prominent, although for a while these consisted mainly of 

 physiology, biochemistry, and embryology. Whereas in 1892 but 

 five investigators were registered, by 1902 the number aggregated 

 fourteen and by 1906 twenty. Among them were Councilman 

 (1893), Flexner (1894-1895), F. P. Mall, Jacques Loeb, J. P. 

 McMurrich, Ludvig Hektoen (1900), A. P. Mathews, E. P. Lyon, 

 W. E. Garrey, Leo Loeb, A. J. Carlson, Hideyo Noguchi (1902, 

 1907), and C. R. Stockard. Some of this work had a definite 

 significance from the standpoint of comparative pathology. In 

 the next decades medical research workers as well as preclinical 

 and scientific students ambitious to study medicine increased 

 numerically. 



That Smith arrived in time at Woods Hole to help further 

 botanical interests at the Marine Biological Laboratory is indi- 

 cated by two letters of the years 1899-1900. December 23, 1899, 

 Bradley Moore Davis of the Department of Botany of the Uni- 



*" Frank R. Lillie, The Woods Hole Alarine Biological Laboratory, op. cit., 15-23. 



" Idem, 87-88, where it is also said that the course in general physiology was the 

 first of its kind, not only in America but in the world. It was a prime factor in the 

 rapid development of the subject in the universities. Concerning the researches in 

 botany, pp. 144-145. Concerning the researches and investigators in medicine, pp. 

 146-147. 



