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7.—Necessity of a Salaried Staff. 
Obviously, there must be codrdinated effort of numerous 
special investigators to make any headway. How is this to be 
secured? In only one way: by paying for it. The diversity of 
talent and training ealled for, and the prolonged period of service 
requisite, preclude the possibility of success on any other basis. 
Botanists and zoologists there are who would gladly, and without 
thought of money compensation, prepare reports on collections in 
their special groups that might be sent to them; and occasionally 
one would be found not only willing but able to stand the expense 
of a sojourn for a few days or weeks at the Station, that he might 
make observations in the field and participate in the collecting. 
But for repeated and long continued work on both living and 
preserved material such as is implied by the range of problems 
contemplated, gratuitous service of this sort cannot be counted 
on. And why should it be expected or asked? 
So with the other lines of research; a chemist could easily be 
found who would be glad to examine water samples that might 
be sent to his own laboratory; and geologists there would be who 
under like conditions, from their geological interest, would will- 
ingly report on bottom deposits. But where is the chemist, or 
physicist, or geologist, or hydrographer, who would be willing, 
or could afford, to undertake such systematic studies, largely of 
necessity at the Station, as would meet the biological require- 
ments? There is really little more ground for assuming that a 
chemist’s scientific interests should be sufficient to induce him to 
enter upon such a task, than that they should be sufficient to 
induce him to do the chemical work at a sugar factory, or a gas 
works. 
In short, the only way by which such a survey can be carried 
on with any considerable measure of success is through an organ- 
ized, salaried staff. This, of course, means a large and contin- 
uous expenditure. But the size of the expenditure would be 
fortunately lessened by the circumstance that while the staff 
would be in the aggregate rather large, only a portion, and in the 
main a comparatively small portion, of the time of each member 
would be demanded. In most cases occasional visits to the Sta- 
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