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Naples are used for the investigation of the widest 

 range of zoological problems. 



In the United States, Louis Agassiz (Fig. 24) was 

 the pioneer with his marine station started in 1873 

 on the island of Penikese, Massachusetts. The 

 Marine Biological station at Woods Hole, Mass- 

 achusetts, is, in a sense, the successor of the Penikese 

 laboratory. It was chiefly developed by Whitman 

 (1842-1910) who had been a student under Agassiz. 

 The influence of Whitman (Fig. 23) on the develop- 

 ment of American zoology was very great. Besides 

 acting as Director of the station at Woods Hole for 

 nineteen years, he was a professor at Clark Univer- 

 sity and afterwards of the University of Chicago. 

 He founded the Journal of Morphology and carried it 

 through seventeen volumes. The greatness of Whit- 

 man was in his large noble spirit, his philosophical 

 cast of mind and the feeling of uplift which he im- 

 parted to his students and to other zoologists. 



Other marine stations of the United States on the 

 Atlantic Coast as Cold Spring Harbor, New York, 

 South Harpswell, Maine, Dry Tortugas, Florida, and 

 Beaufort, North Carolina, are supplemented by 

 those of the Pacific Coast as the Puget Sound Station 

 at Friday Harbor, Washington, Ocean Grove, Cal- 



