3 BUILDINGS AND BUDGETS 



£L 



67 



The supply department when it was in Candle House. MBL Archives. 



tance in the 1897 reform than Whitman's eagerness to rid himself of those 

 hopeless Bostonian "old maids." He was not at all opposed to women as 

 scientists. Indeed, his own wife, Emily Nunn Whitman, had studied as a 

 biologist in Europe and the United States and had taught at Wellesley 

 College. But those Boston women trustees were not scientists, and he felt 

 that they failed to understand what would make biology work. In short, they 

 did not share Whitman's vision for a national biological station that would 

 embrace advanced research as much as it did teaching. 



In 1896 and 1897, Whitman and his cohorts plotted change. They set up 

 a reorganization committee. They officially appointed L. L. Nunn of Tellu- 

 ride, Colorado (Whitman's brother-in-law), as a trustee. Mr. Nunn then 

 made a generous offer to provide financial security for the MBL's deficit for 

 that session. But, he insisted that 



I make this offer upon the condition that your present director, Dr. C. 

 O. Whitman, directs the affairs of said Institution in accordance with his 

 best judgment during the said season, and that Mr. L. Wilcott Allen, or 



