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100 VEARS EXPLORING LIFE, 1888-1988 



Emperor Hirohito autographing a copy of his book, Some 

 Hydrozoans of the Bonin Islands, in 1975. Left to right: Paul Fye, 

 James Ebert, and secret servicemen. MBL Archives. 



tions (now in the Rare Books Room). When the time came for the scheduled 

 tea break, the emperor instead rose and said "Let's get on with the science." 

 The group then looked through the microscopes at the hydroid specimens 

 that had been prepared by Indiana University biologist Sears Crowell and set 

 up in the library. Security remained tight around Woods Hole and especially 

 in the MBL library that Saturday, and people brought out and fit themselves 

 into suits they probably had not used at the informal MBL for many years. 

 W. J. V. Osterhout reports a rather different sort of special visit years 

 earlier when President William Rainey Harper of the University of Chicago 

 came to visit around 1900. Chicago was a major research university and an 

 important supporter of the MBL. Harper was quite a dignitaiy by MBL 

 standards of the time. Captain Veeder, who took charge of boating expedi- 

 tions, arranged a clambake at Naushon Island for the distinguished visitor. 

 One of the guests was introduced as a general in the Grand Army of the 

 Republic. He pulled out his flask in that late nineteenth-century time when 

 few proper people imbibed (at least in public) and proceeded to become 



