BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH XXV 
Mr. Agassiz’s Newport Laboratory on the development of pelagic 
fish eggs. Some of the results, worked up later in Cambridge, 
were published with Mr. Agassiz in two papers (1884 and 1889). 
In the first paper the origin of the periblast was correctly described 
for the first time, a most important contribution in view of the 
confusion of opinions on this subject. During this summer he 
met his future wife, Miss Emily Nunn, who was also working 
at Mr. Agassiz’s laboratory. 
The years 1883-1886 were productive years; during part of 
this time Whitman edited the department of ‘‘ Microscopy” of 
the American Naturalist. He worked out and published his 
papers on ‘‘A Rare Form of the Blastoderm of the Chick” (’83), 
‘‘External Morphology of the Leech’”’ (’84), ‘‘On the Develop- 
ment of Some Pelagic Fish Eggs’’ (’84), ‘‘Segmental Sense-Organs 
of the Leech” (’84), ‘‘The Leeches of Japan’”’ (’86), ‘‘The Germ- 
Layers of Clepsine’”’ (’86), and some minor papers. He also 
prepared and published his book on ‘‘ Methods of Research in 
Microscopical Anatomy and Embryology” (’85) (see Bibliog- 
raphy). 
THE LAKE LABORATORY AND THE FOUNDING OF THE JOURNAL OF 
MORPHOLOGY 
From 1886 to 1889 Whitman acted as director of the Lake 
Laboratory at Milwaukee, Wisconsin,®> founded by Edward 
Phelps Allis, Jr. Mr. Allis had decided to start a laboratory for 
biological and related research and Whitman was recommended 
to him as a proper person to take charge. There followed a con- 
ference in which the plans and purposes of the laboratory were 
discussed, and Whitman then presented the need of an American 
journal for publication of zoological research, pointing out that 
American workers were obliged either to present their papers to 
some scientific society or to send them for publication to some one 
of several European journals. Whitman then asked Mr. Allis 
if he would consider the publication of such a journal, in con- 
nection with the laboratory. He was asked to submit figures and 
> T am indebted to Mr. Allis for some of the information on which the following 
statements are based. 
