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Penikese died with Agassiz. I have lately been on a pilgrimage to the 

 old buildings. The motto " eat, drink and be merry " still hangs in the old 

 dining-hall. On the walls of the lecture-room are the mottoes placed there 

 by Agassiz's pupils : " A laboratory is to me a sanctuary. I would have 

 nothing done in it unworthy its great author." "Study to translate what 

 actually exists. Be courageous enough to say ' I do not know,' " and " Study 

 nature not books." The outlines of the last lecture delivered at Penikese 

 eighteen years ago are still on the blackboard. At this w^indow Dr. Whit- 

 man stuffed terns, at the other Dr. Brooks cracked clams and at another Dr. 

 Jordan studied seaweeds. 



Penikese had been donated and the buildings erected by a tobacco mer- 

 chant, Anderson, of New York. It was found that the location was too 

 inaccessible and the fauna of the island too poor so that the $30,000 buildings 

 were abandoned for less commodious but more favorably situated quarters. 

 There are at present several marine laboratories on the coast of America, 

 and several summer schools which are located on the seashore, and do a 

 certain amount of marine biological work. 



In 1881 a number of Boston women established a laboratory at Annis- 

 quam, Mass., where students and teachers could work during the summer. 

 These ladies were afterwards instrumental in the foundation of the Marine 

 Biological Association whose laboratory is at Woods Holl on Vineyard Sound. 



Alexander Agassiz several years ago built the Newport Marine Labora- 

 tory, to which he has frequently invited students. Here the advanced 

 students of Harvard University work during the summer. This laboratory 

 is the best equipped of any in the United States, but it is practically private 

 aud has room for but eight students. 



The United States Fish Commission, after spending several summers at 

 various places on the Atlantic finally built a permanent station at Woods 

 Holl. This is by far the largest station in America and it was Professor 

 Baird's hope and intention to make it the equal of the famous station at 

 Naples. But the elaborate laboratories, aquaria, docks, boats and large 

 hotel did not attract the men it was hoped to collect. 



Another laboratory has lately been established on Long Island, but of this 

 nothing definite can be said yet. Still another has been established by 

 the University of Pennsylvania. 



This brings us back to the station of the Marine Biological Association 

 which deserves a better notice. 



