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Biology in America 



connection with the general account of biological progress in 

 America. Its character has been as varied as that of the men 

 who have conducted it, a list of whose names would include 



TYPICAL WHARF PILE COMMUNITY OF THE NEW ENGLAND COAST 

 Submerged timbers form the home of a wide variety of sessile animals 

 including sponges, hydroids, sea anemones, barnacles, mussels and sea 

 squirts. The immobility of the anemones and hydroids, and their deli- 

 cate flower-like habit, led the great Greek naturalist, Aristotle, to give 

 the name of zoophytes (animal plants) to these and similar forms. It 

 was such surroundings as this which attracted Agassiz to Penikese. 

 Courtesy of the American Museum of Natural History. 



the leaders of American biology from the Atlantic to the 

 Pacific and from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. 



Woods Hole may well be called the " Naples of America," 

 the Mecca to which in ever increasing numbers biologists 

 make pilgrimage each year. Who that has been there does 



