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oppoai-ing monthly or quarterly, offering opportimity for prompt pub- 

 lication of the results of v/orlc carried on under its auspices: the 

 Biological Bulletin published by the Hrrine Eiologica] Laboratory 

 at Woods Hole would be an excellent nodel. 



(2) Through sub-stations it should include v/ithin its field of act- 

 ivity Arctic waters and the oceanic abyss, as well as t'-e temperate 

 coast wate:"s thn t will naturallv be most easily accessiible fro-n its 

 headquarters . 



(3) It should offer or^portunit" tc visitlnr: students for instruction 

 in Oceanogranhlc field methods, likewise opi^ortunity to tai'-e active 

 part in the boat work: it should offer laboratory facilities to 

 them and s^^ould provide one or more fellowships to serve as an in- 

 centive to promisvnij students. 



(4) It should offer onrortunities for research to all qualified in- 

 vestigators in oceanogranhic proble:^.s. To that ei-d it should devel- 

 oo oontinuine- relations wit! universities p.^'^d scientific organiza- 

 tions, as headquarters for their summer work in f'- is field. And it 

 would be reasonable to exoect that the special exnense of such ar- 

 rangements be met in Ici'ge part b^- the institutions concerned. 



(5) It should constantly make it a primary object to encourage tie 

 unification of effort that is needed, especially in America, if the 

 st\:id"^ of the ocean is to advance with, a lust balance between its 

 different parts, and to center on the parts of tl^e ocean where basic 

 problems can best obviously be attacked. Such support of coopera- 

 tion vfill always be more a question of personality-^ t'^an of organi- 

 ?;ation. 



Ciuch an institution may also be expected to attract t^e inter- 

 est, and hence the support of 'rivate individuals interested in 

 the ocean throunl' yachting, or of corporations concerned with pro- 

 "iects of oceanic m,eteorology, etc. 



The time is ripo for tl^e nroioct Tust outlinod. If a strong 

 oceanorraphic institution can bo establ is^ei-^ on the Atlantic coast, 

 and those now existing on ''he Pacific coast be adequately stren- 

 gthened, we believe that through their cooperation, the interests 

 of oceanographic research in Am ^rica will continue to receive need- 

 ed attention in the future. 



