The 



founder's 



tact 



The Days of a Man 



1902 



my observations were made through an improvised candy- 

 bucket with a glass bottom, which answered the purpose 

 admirably. And I was pleased with my own reticence when 

 Dohrn urged me to remain a few days for a collecting tour in 

 their small steamer, fully equipped from fishing lines to deep- 

 sea dredges, and with portable tanks to bring in the catch alive. 



The board once organized, Mrs. Stanford set out 

 for a trip around the world by way of Australia and 

 Ceylon, her primary purpose being to give the other 

 trustees absolute freedom in taking up their great 

 responsibilities, as she wished them to handle the 

 accumulated funds on their own initiative without 

 suggestion from herself. 



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