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his charges, including his ships, and would not set out when the weather 

 threatened; with him in charge there were no more exotic whaling stories. 

 His policy was always to leave on time, not waiting for stragglers, especially 

 if the tides or weather were turning. Once even the supervisor of the 

 department, George Gray, was left behind on Naushon Island. He caught a 

 ferry back later, but he was not pleased. Another time a wealthy student did 

 get the better of Veeder's schedule. He was partying with friends and missed 

 the Cayadetta's departure. His friends flew up in a float plane and dropped 

 down right in front of the boat. Veeder had to take him on board. Otherwise, 

 the captain ruled. 



With time, more demands on the collecting crew and the increasing 

 size of the MBL population curtailed most such participatory collecting 

 jaunts, and eventually put an end to annual class picnics on nearby islands. 

 Probably the Coast Guard would not quite approve those days of the 

 nonchalant approach to sailing trips anyway; only rarely did anyone use a 

 life vest of any sort. Many long-time Woods Hole residents have their own 

 boats now, often small sailboats or motorboats, in this time when scientists 

 make a little more money than when Whitman urged that no one should 

 become an academic biologist if he expected to make a reasonable living at 

 it. Money does not attract workers to science, of course. As Szent-Gyorgyi 

 suggested, it has to be a love of science that drives someone to become a 

 successful scientist. That, he says, and an average, but not necessarily 

 above-average, intelligence. What matters is that "you think about it, that you 

 love it, that you live in it, and that's your life. " 



NOTES 



Shinya Inoue's scientific work is discussed in "EjqDloring 

 the Universe of the Cell," MBL Science (Summer 

 1986) Vol. 2, No. 2: 2-7. Examples of current science 

 come especially from J. P. Trinkaus and Robert 

 Barlow, during personal interviews and through 

 notes, summer 1987. 



On early marine work see American Zoologist (1988) Vol. 

 28, especially Jane Maienschein's "Why Do Re- 

 search at the Seashore?" 



On American biologists in Naples, see Jane Maienschein, 

 "First Impressions: American Biologists at Naples," 

 Biological Bulletin 168 Suppl.; 187-191; and Philip 

 Pauly, "American Biologists in Wilhelmian Ger- 

 many: Another Look at the Innocents Abroad," 

 unpublished paper presented at the History of Sci- 

 ence Society meeting, 1984. See also Whitman, 

 "The Advantages of Study at the Naples Zoological 

 Station," (1883) Science 2: 93-97. 



whitman's manual was Methods of Research in Micro- 

 scopical Anatomy and Embryology (Boston: S. E. 

 Cassino, 1885). For more recent publications see 

 Ernest Everett Just, Basic Methods for E^qjeriments 

 on Eggs of Marine Animals (Philadelphia: Blakiston, 

 1939); Donald P. Costello and Catherine Henley, 

 Methods for Obtaining and Handling Marine Eggs 

 and Embryos (Woods Hole: Marine Biological Lab- 

 oratory, 1971); and W. D. Russell-Hunter, A Biology 

 of Lower Invertebrates and A Biology of Higher 

 Invertebrates (New York: Macmillan, 1968 and 

 1969). E. B. Wilson's classic work is The Cell in 

 Development and Inheritance (New York: Mac- 

 millan, 1896, 2nd ed. 1900, 3rd ed., 1928). Keith 

 Benson, "The Naples Stazione Zoologica and its 

 Impact on the Emergence of Marine Biology, " Jour- 

 nal of the History of Biology (1988) Vol. 21: 331-341, 

 discusses tlie importance of techniques. 



