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owe to Professor Whitman a debt of gratitude for having been the 
pioneer in this field”? (Anatomical Record, vol. 2, 1908, p. 381). 
In 1898, realizing the need of some means for more rapid publi- 
cation than was afforded by the Journal of Morphology, Whitman 
started the Zoological Bulletin with the cooperation of W. M. 
Wheeler. The idea was to afford means for the rapid publication 
of shorter articles and preliminary notices dealing with investi- 
gations in zoology which required only simple illustrations. The 
Bulletin was therefore published monthly. It was intended to 
be a companion serial to the Journal of Morphology. After the 
publication of two volumes the name was changed to the Bio- 
logical Bulletin and it was transferred to the Marine Biological 
Laboratory as its official publication. 
At the Lake Laboratory Whitman was associated with Edward 
Phelps Allis, the founder, Howard Ayers, William Patten, A. C. 
Eycleshymer, and some others. The work of the laboratory was 
research work in morphology, especially embryology. Whitman 
himself began investigations on Amia and Necturus, but though 
he carried some of this work quite far, but little of it was ever 
published. His scientific activity during this time may be in- 
ferred from the list of publications covering the period 1886 to 
1889. 
AT CLARK UNIVERSITY: 1889-1892 
In 1889 Whitman accepted a call to the chair of zoology in the 
newly founded Clark University of Worcester, Massachusetts. 
Professor G. Stanley Hall of Johns Hopkins University had sought 
to establish with the aid of Jonas Clark of Worcester, astrictly grad- 
uate and research institution, which should accomplish all that the 
Johns Hopkins University had set out to do in elevating the stand- 
ard of scholarship in America, but without the hindrance of under- 
graduate instruction. Whitman met there with thoroughly con- 
genial conditions and associates. President Hall had assembled 
a small but remarkable group of scientific men, all animated by 
the same high ideals of scholarship. They were unencumbered 
with undergraduate instruction, provided with fairly adequate 
means for research, and they seemed destined to realize the fine 
aim that President Hall had set before them. 
