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much to scientific men themselves as to government officers 

 and the people at large." 4 



Surely it is cause for congratulation to science in general, 

 and to this institution and its director in particular, when 

 our strictly practical legislators can be made to see the value 

 to the state of science for its own sake. 



In addition to the Scripps Institution several other 

 laboratories have been privately endowed within recent years. 

 Apart from the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods 

 Hole, which is of much longer standing, these laboratories 



BUILDINGS OF THE STATION FOR EXPERIMENTAL EVOLUTION OF THE CAR- 

 NEGIE INSTITUTION AT COLD SPRING HARBOR, L. I. 

 Here are being conducted important researches into the laws of in- 

 heritance in plants and animals, and in conjunction with this station 

 the Eugenics Record Office is laying the foundation for an intelligent 

 treatment of marriages and the breeding of a better human race. 

 After Davenport. Year Book of the Carnegie Institution for 191%. 



have contributed more to biology than all other biological 

 stations in America combined, and their promise for the 

 future is correspondingly greater. These are the three 

 biological laboratories of the Carnegie Institution and its 

 Department of Embryology, and the Rockefeller Institute 

 for Medical Research. It is true that the latter is primarily 

 a medical institution, as its name implies, but the intimate 

 association of medicine with biology, and the fact that one of 

 its departments is devoted exclusively to biology, entitles it 



4 Ritter in "Science," Vol. XLII, 1915, p. 245-246. 



