Figure 35 • — 0» E. Sette, Director of the Laboratory in 1929, 

 examining larval mackerel. 



In 1929, Sette (fig. 35), in charge of the North Atlantic 

 Fishery Investigations, became Director of the Laboratory 

 and served in this capacity until 1931. His laboratory studies 

 on young mackerel and experimental tagging and schooling of 

 mackerel comprised a part of a comprehensive investigation 

 which later on was summarized in two large papers (Sette, 

 1943, 1950). The permanent office of the North Atlantic Fish- 

 eries Investigation was located at Cambridge, Mass. and Woods 

 Hole was used as temporary headquarters for the mackerel 

 investigations, which Sette conducted with the assistance of 

 E. W. Bailey and George L. Clarke. 



Studies on the physiology of oyster and oyster culture 

 by Galtsoff and experiments on respiration in fishes by Hall 

 and his group were continued. As usual, Cobb with a large 

 staff occupied part of the laboratory, and Paul S. Conger pur- 

 sued taxonomic studies of local diatoms. The laboratory 



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