Contents 



Foreword vii 

 Preface xiii 



Arriving in Woods Hole 1 



Friday Evening Lectures 3 



Louis Agassiz 6 



The Anderson School at Penikese 9 



Summers in Woods Hole 11 



The Origin of the Marine Biological Laboratory 19 



Living Here 27 



Housing 29 



Whaling and Fishing 31 



Commercial Resources 33 



The Science School 39 



Food 40 



Weather 45 



Buildings and Budgets 49 



Buildings Old and New 51 

 Funding and Control 64 



The Library and Publications 73 



The Library 75 

 Publications 82 

 Rare Books Room and Archives 84 



The People 87 



Students 89 



Administrators 92 



Edwin Grant Conklin and Charles Otis Whitman 93 



The Tradition of Research 96 



Leaders 98 



MBL Personalities 99 



Cooperative Administration in a Community 101 



