lO CARMEGIE; institution of WASHINGTON. 



from the ^liami Yacht and Machine Company, of Miami, Florida, for the 

 construction of the hull and upper works of such a vessel in conformity with 

 designs carefully worked out by this company in collaboration with the Direc- 

 tor of the Department, was accepted October 31, 1910. The equipment of the 

 vessel, including- engines, dredging, and other auxiliary apparatus, was sup- 

 plied by the Director by purchase in open market at an aggregate cost of 



$10,000. 



A description of this craft, along with a photographic illustration of her at 

 sea, will be found in the annual report of the Director of the Department in 

 the current Year Book. It may suffice here, therefore, to state that she is a 

 70-foot, twin-screw motor-boat, very staunchly built, and capable of cruising 

 anywhere in the Gulf and adjacent tropical waters. An agreeable feature of 

 the experience in the construction of this boat, in all respects similar to that 

 met in the construction of the non-magnetic ship Carnegie, was the high pro- 

 fessional standard sought by the designers and builders, Messrs. Peck and 

 Lundblom, of the Miami Yacht and Machine Company. Every effort on 

 their part was made to meet the requirements and to secure the highest effi- 

 ciency. This new boat has been called the Anton Dohrn, in honor of the 

 distinguished founder of the Stazione Zoologica, under whose direction, for 

 more than thirty years, the Marine Laboratory at Naples has been one of the 

 most fruitful international centers for biological research. In graceful recog- 

 nition of this honor, Dr. Reinhard Dohrn, who has succeeded his father as 

 Director of the Stazione Zoologica, has presented to the vessel an admirable 

 bronze relief of Anton Dohrn, by Adolf Hildebrand. 



With the end of the current calendar year the Institution may be said to 

 have completed the first decade of its history. This history is partly re- 

 corded, in a condensed form, in the Year Books, in the 

 A Retrospective miscellaneous publications of the Institution, and in the 

 printed but unpublished proceedings of the Board of Trus- 

 tees and of the Executive Committee. A large part of this history is recorded 

 only in the voluminous correspondence entailed by the productive work of 

 the Institution, while no inconsiderable portion is filed in the more volumi- 

 nous but tentative, unproductive, or fruitless correspondence incident to so 

 novel an enterprise. The epoch for a comprehensive view of this history has 

 not yet arrived. A decade is the smallest convenient unit of time by which 

 the succession of events in such an establishment may be reckoned, and it 

 will be essential to await the development of a series of units before just esti- 

 mates may be drawn and adequate conclusions reached with respect to the 

 early growth and the complex activities which have engrossed the attention 

 and absorbed the income of the Institution during the first decade of its ex- 

 istence. On the other hand, without seeking to anticipate the verdict of our 

 successors, or of our contemporaries, it appears appropriate at this time to 

 recall in a summary way the salient facts of this history and to indicate in 

 some instances the lessons which may be drawn from the extensive experi- 

 ence already acquired. 



