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NOTES 



Donald Costello, discussed his first arrival at the MBL in 

 his interview recorded in the MBL Archives. 



Conklin, on his first years at the MBL, in "Early Days at 

 Woods Hole," American Scientist (1968) 56: 

 112-120, as well as in other writings and even a 

 phonograph record made during an interview at 

 Princeton toward the end of his life in the 1950s. 



Conklin loved talking about what science was like in the 

 early part of his career. In a more formal account, 

 Conklin discussed William Keith Brooks in his 

 Memoir for the National Academy of Sciences, Bio- 

 graphical Memoirs (1910) 7: 25-88. He always con- 

 sidered himself a "friend of the egg — the whole 

 egg," as many students have recalled. See also J. 

 Bonner, with notes by Whitfield J. Bell, Jr., " 'What 

 is Money For?': An interview with Edwin Grant 

 Conklin, 1952," Proceedings of the American Philo- 

 sophical Society (1984) 128: 79-84. Conklin's, as 

 well as Wilson's, Morgan's, Whitman's, and other 

 bound collections of reprints, including their clas- 

 sic early papers, cire housed in the MBL Rare Books 

 Room. 



There were, in fact, other "top men " besides those 

 named here, but these men returned year after 

 year, served as trustees for long periods of time, 

 worked as journal editors, and generally continued 

 to play the most active roles in all facets of MBL life 

 for a long period of time. More information about 

 each of the men is available in the archival collec- 

 tions at each home university or at such central 

 collections as the American Philosophical Society. 



Robert Kahler's Historical Collection interview, recalls 

 Morgan's white shirts, thougli Isabel Morgan 

 Mountain questions whether the story was over- 

 stated. 



Tracy Sonneborn, letter of August 2, 1926, to his Aunt 

 Bella and Uncle Jake, printed in Collecting Net (July 

 1987) 5: 14. 



Paul ReznikofTs Historical Collection interview discusses 

 the cocktail party and Chambers's stories. Many 

 people fondly recall Chambers's superb idiosyncra- 

 sies, often chuckling while relating stories so many 

 years later. 



University of Chicago records as well as the Lillie Collec- 

 tion at the MBL demonstrate Lillie's management 

 style. Sears Crowell provided an account of Mau- 

 rice Rayon, the phantom botanist, in a story told by 

 Hannah Croasdale, MBL Archives. 



Arnold Clark told the janitorial incident in an interview 

 while in the MBL Archives one day, while Horace 

 Stunkard recorded his arrival at the MBL in his 

 interview in the Historical Collection. 



Betsy Bang, personal communication in 1987 and 1988, 

 provided information about the Bang family's ar- 

 rival in Wood's Hole and about the Frederick B. 

 Bang Fellowship Fund. 



Sister Florence and Sister Elizabeth are remembered in 

 George Scott's interview. Historical Collection, as 

 well as by Donald Costello and a number of others. 



The fullest discussion of Ernest Everett Just's stay at the 

 MBL appears in Kenneth R. Manning's extremely 

 well-written biography, Black Apollo of Science 

 (New York: Oxford, 1983). Whitman's experiences 

 in Japan are discussed in biographies of Whitman 

 as well as in his unpublished account "Zoology in 

 the University of Tokyo," all available in the MBL 

 Archives. 



In his interview deposited in the MBL Archives, Donald 

 Costello recalled his times with Katsuma Dan, and 

 a number of documents recall Dan's role at the 

 MBL. 



During Emperor Hirohito's visit, James Ebert was direc- 

 tor of the MBL. Records in the MBL Archives and 

 Ebert's own recollections show that, even with lim- 

 ited resources, he managed to pull off the event 

 gracefully and without problem — no easy task for 

 an informal place without real precedent for state 

 visits. 



W. J. V. Osterhout discusses University of Chicago pres- 

 ident Harper's earlier visit and the whiskey bottle, 

 in his Loeb stories sent to the MBL Archives in 

 1948. Also see Conklin, "M.B.L. Stories, " (Notes, 

 Chapter 2: "The Story of tlie Whiskey Bottles," 

 pp. 128-129. 



