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100 YEARS EXPLORING LIFE, 1888-1988 



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Old Fisheries Building with Crane and Candle buildings behind, 1923. 

 Norman W. Edmund Collection, MBL Archives. 



Fish Commission building intended for a future research laboratory. As it 

 became clear that the Fish Commission could not do everything by itself, 

 Baird encouraged others to join him with a teaching laboratory in Woods Hole. 

 Baird's friend and Harvard graduate Alpheus Hyatt ran a teacher's 

 school of natural history up the coast in Annisquam. Hired by the Boston 

 Society of Natural History and supported by the Woman's Education Asso- 

 ciation of Boston, the energetic Hyatt and his assistant iuid instructor 

 Balfour H. van Vleck had conducted a summer school each year beginning 

 in 1879. At first tliey met at Hyatt's house, but after two years of tliat they 

 acquired another site. Sometimes the students proved less than inspiring. 



