3 BUILDINGS AND BUDGETS 



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MBLfrom across Eel Pond, early 1930s. The large brick building to the 

 right is comprised of Crane and Lillie; immediately to the left is the 

 supply building, with Candle House behind. Photograph by Alfred F. 

 Huettner, MBL Archives. 



erable strengthening with the decisions of 1897. Previously, the corporation 

 had included the oflficial incorporators, consisting of a few scientists and 

 those representing the Boston Society of Natural History and the Woman's 

 Education Association, of course, plus voting participation by "All who aid 

 in [the laboratory's] support by subscribing to investigator's tables." This 

 included a number of subscribing schools and societies. By including the 

 subscribers in the corporation rather than focusing on those who actually 

 occupied the tables, that governing group was weighted toward adminis- 

 trative and institutional representation. 



With the troubles of 1897, Whitman and his supporters, such as the 

 influential Columbia University and American Museum of Natural History 

 paleontologist Henry Fairfield Osborn, decided that the scientists should 

 exercise greater control. They particularly distrusted the strong Boston 

 representation on the board of trustees. Though Whitman consistently 

 envisioned the MBL as a national facility, as he stressed over and over again, 

 some trustees thought he really meant to take control himself. 



This conviction about the principle of control by the scientists for the 

 scientists, while wddely praised in the years since, probably had less impor- 



