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NOTES 



One biography of Agassiz is by Edward Lurie, Louis 

 Agassiz (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 

 1960). Another is by Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, editor, 

 Louis Agassiz, Life and Correspondence, 2 vols. 

 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1886); pp. 765-776 dis- 

 cuss the Anderson school and the drain that it 

 caused on Agassiz's life. 



A series of pieces in the Tribune Popular Science in 

 1874 details the school's coming into being, as do 

 articles in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, 

 Nature, Science, and other journals of the day. 

 The centennial program for Agassiz's school, Au- 

 gust 13-17, 1973, also included important discus- 

 sion of the school's history. See also articles by 

 Ralph Dexter, especially "From Penikese to the 

 Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole — 

 The Role of Agassiz's Students, " Esse^c Institute 

 Historical Collections (April 1974) 110: 151-161. 



The records of the Boston Society of Natural History 

 record the progress of the Annisquam school — its 

 success in attracting students, costs, teachers, 

 problems, and such. 



Related discussion of the role of nature study and the 

 place of women in natural history appears there 

 and in most popular science publications of the 

 1860s and 1870s. A more sustained and scholarly 

 treatment of women scientists is Margaret W. 

 Rossiter's Women Scientists in America (Johns 

 Hopkins University Press, 1982); see especially pp. 

 86-99 on the MBL. 



For more on Whitman, see Edward S. Morse's Memoir, 

 National Academy of Sciences, Biographical Mem- 

 oirs (1912): 269-288, and an article by Frank R. 

 Lillie in the Journal of Morphology (1911) 22: 

 xv-lxxvi. 



Llllie's unpublished autobiography, dated 1926 (?), is in 

 the Lillie materials at the MBL. 



Isabel Morgan Mountain has written an unpublished 

 history of her house, on the site of the old Morgan 

 barn. This discusses the fire and Morgan's exper- 

 iments. She has also generously provided other 

 valuable information and insights during an in- 

 terview in summer 1987. 



Cornelia Clapp on the early years: 'Some Recollections 

 of the First Summer at Woods Hole, " Collecting 

 Net (July 7, 1927): 3, 10. 



Beamon Douglas, "My Summer in Wood's Hole," New 

 York Medical Journal (1902) 76: 265-269. 



Joseph Fay's stories about the possible arrival of Norse- 

 men on the Cape appeared in the Collecting Net 

 and in "Track of the Norsemen," 1873 (?). Also 

 recent historical publications about Woods Hole 

 consider such historical stories. 



E. Ray Lankester on marine laboratories, "An American 

 Sea-Side Laboratory," Nature (March 25, 1880): 

 497--199. 



E. G. Conklin on the advantages of Woods Hole, "The 

 Marine Biological Laboratory, " Science (1900) 12: 

 233-244, quotation p. 235. 



Baird's interests at Dickinson College are recorded in 

 the excellent archival collections there. On Baird 

 and the Fish Commission, see Paul Galtsoff s The 

 Story of the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries Bio- 

 logical Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 

 (Washington, DC: Department of the Interior Cir- 

 cular, 1962). 



On Woods Hole see Harris W. Clark, "A History of 

 Woods Hole and Adjacent Waters, " March 1975, 

 MBL Archives. 



Concerning relationships of the MBL to earlier Amer- 

 ican efforts, see Dexter (reference chapter 1, #6) 

 and articles in the special issue of Biological Bul- 

 letin (June 1985) 168 Suppl., especially Jane 

 Maienschein, "Agassiz, Hyatt, Whitman, and the 

 Birth of the Marine Biological Laboratory," pp. 

 26-34. 



The letter describing the purpose of the prospective 

 MBL was written by the "Committee on Location " 

 (B. H. van Vieck, W. G. Farlow, and S. F. Clarke), 

 April 15, 1887. 



Samuel F. Clarke discusses the directorship in a letter 

 to William Sedgwick, December 18, 1887, and in 

 the MBL trustees' minutes from 1888. Discussion 

 of Brooks's hesitations appears in letters in the 

 Johns Hopkins University and the Museum of 

 Comparative Zoology Archives. 



The only summary history of the MBL is Frank R. 

 Lillie's The Woods Hole Marine Biological Labora- 

 tory (Chicago: University Press, 1944); reprinted in 

 Biological Bulletin (1988) 174. 



