in the field was carried on by Earle B. Perkins. 



Studies of oyster physiology conducted in 1928 were 

 concerned primarily with the metabolism of normal and green 

 colored oysters. Dorothy V. Whipple of Johns Hopkins Med- 

 ical School and H. B. Pease, student at Harvard University, 

 assisted Galtsoff with the laboratory work. 



Numerous repairs and improvements were made during 

 the season. A new laboratory room for biochemistry was 

 equipped on the third floor of the building; an oceanographical 

 laboratory was refinished and the storeroom entirely rebuilt 

 and re-equipped. All these alterations materially increased 

 the usefulness and efficiency of the Laboratory. 



The summer season of 1928 was marked by a series 

 of special lectures given in the living room of the residence and 

 attended by a large and appreciative audience of Woods Hole 

 biologists. The lectures were by Galtsoff on "The Chemistry 

 of the Sea"; F. G. Hall on "Respiration of Fishes"; A. G. 

 Huntsman, Director of the Atlantic Biological Station at St. 

 Andrews, New Brunswick, on "Limiting Factors in the Sea"; 

 and H. B. Bigelow on "Oceanography and Fisheries. " This 

 very successful season ended with the Annual Convention of the 

 National Association of Fishery Commissioners, held on Sep- 

 tember 7 and 8. The sessions were attended by 7 5 persons 

 from various Atlantic states. Hon. Charles W. Gifford, con- 

 gressman of the Cape Cod district and a good friend of the 

 Laboratory, addressed the opening session. Exhibits arranged 

 for the occasion by the Laboratory comprised 29 different items 

 showing the method of studying the physiology of feeding and 

 reproduction of the oyster; oyster culture; anatomy of the 

 oyster; and depredation caused by oyster drills. 



In the years between 1912 and 1928, a great deal of 

 research in oceanic fisheries was conducted for the Bureau 

 of Fisheries by Henry B. Bigelow of Harvard University (fig. 

 34). Although not employed by the Bureau, he was a frequent 

 visitor to the Fisheries Station and exerted a great deal of in- 

 fluence on the type of research conducted by the Bureau. To 

 the members of the Laboratory he was known as a witty person 

 and devoted scientist, determined to conduct observations in 

 the open ocean in spite of the great personal discomfort of work- 

 ing on small vessels in bad winter storms. He was a pioneer 

 explorer of physical oceanography, plankton, and fishes of the 

 Gulf of Maine. The results of his explorations published by the 

 Bureau (Bigelow, 1926, 1927, 1931) and fundamental work on 

 fishes of the Gulf of Maine made jointly with Schroeder (Bigelow 

 and Schroeder, 1953) remain a source of most valuable infor- 

 mation. From 1931 to 1940 he was the first Director of the 

 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). 



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