Thanks for ihe Memories 



Sources and Achvowiedgements 



Discussion in this book is based primarily on materials found in the MBL 

 Archives, mostly written, documented sources. Often the same event or fact 

 appears in more than one place. Some stories come, with permission, from 

 tapes of interviews made by the Woods Hole Historical Collection during the 

 1970s and 1980s. And a few items emerged from interviews that took place 

 at the MBL. 



I chose not to try to acquire new material by interviewing everyone in 

 the MBL community, but instead spoke only wdth a few of those who have 

 been around for many years in order to verify information or to fill in details. 

 This project, then, is autobiographical in that it is based on information 

 chronicled within the MBL records. It is not an attempt to provide a more 

 detached or analytic biographical treatment. I hope this book will facilitate 

 other such projects. 



In particular, I wish to thank the Woods Hole Historical Collections for 

 generously sharing their transcripts of taped interviews with MBL scientists 

 and staff members. Interviews with Philip Armstrong, Isabel Conklin, Sears 

 Crowell, Robert Kahler, Donald Lancefield, Paul Reznikoff, George T. Scott 

 and Elsie Scott, Horace Stunkard, Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, and William Randolf 

 Taylor proved very valuable in filling out details and putting much of what we 

 had learned in the dry, archival form of official records into personal terms. 



In addition, Betsy Bang, Bob Barlow, Sears Crowell, James Ebert, Jane 

 Fessenden, Donald Lahy, Dorothy Rogers, Homer Smith, Susie Steinbach, 

 J. P. Trinkaus, and John Valois helped fill in details about times and attitudes 

 during their respective careers here. Undoubtedly, otliers would willingly 

 have helped if this had been a different sort of project and if they had been 

 asked. Again, as a historian, I encourage everyone who has some further or 

 alternative piece of the story of the MBL to record that iiiformation and 

 deposit it in the Archives for future researchers. 



Aside from the specific references given below, quotations or other 

 information often came from the official records of the MBL. Frank Lillie's 

 The Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory, published in 1944 and re- 

 printed by the Biological Bulletin in 1988 (v. 174), is extremely valuable for 

 historical detail. I have not reiterated the many facts and chronologies 

 included there. 



