Biological Institutions 



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this little group of apostles went forth to spread his teach- 

 ings across America, and a Jordan and a Brooks have passed 

 the torch to their students, and they in turn to others in an 

 ever widening circle of living truth. 



The laboratory at Penikese was abandoned the following 

 year owing to the death of Agassiz, but a worthy successor 

 was soon to follow in the Marine Biological Laboratory at 

 Woods Hole, which was founded in 1888 by Professor Alpheus 

 Hyatt of Boston, and a group of naturalists and their friends. 



Woods Hoi^, Mass. 

 In the middle background is the ' ' Fish Hawk, ' ' and to the right the 

 buildings of the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries. In the foreground is the sea 

 bottom, with a group of its inhabitants. 



Courtesy of the American Museum of Natural History. 



For many years the work at Woods Hole was, and to a 

 large extent still is conducted in flimsy wooden buildings, of 

 the cheapest sort of temporary construction. But in 1914 

 through the generosity of Chas. R. Crane, the patron saint 

 of the laboratory, a substantial and commodious building was 

 erected, which is well furnished with modern equipment in 

 biology. 



A detailed account of the work at Woods Hole would 

 require several volumes in itself, and is out of the question 

 here, but its principal results are mentioned elsewhere in 



