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SCIENCE. 



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structing and empowering the treasurer to so 

 convey the property. 



You moved that the following amendment 

 be appended to the motion : ' That the corpor- 

 ation of the Marine Biological Laboratory 

 request the trustees of the Carnegie Institu- 

 tion to consider the possibility of assisting the 

 laboratory without making it a branch of the 

 Carnegie Institution.' A large majority voted 

 against this amendment. It was made a 

 second time in a slightly altered form, but 

 received still less support. 



The original motion was then put before the 

 meeting, and by an overwhelming majority it 

 was 



Voted: That the Treasurer, D. Blakely Hoar, 

 be and he is hereby authorized and instructed to 

 execute, acknowledge, and deliver, in the name 

 and behalf of this corporation, the deed which 

 has just been read, conveying to the said Car- 

 negie Institution, all and singular, the properties 

 of this corporation, and also any and all other 

 documents of title m the opinion of counsel neces- 

 sary or expedient fully to vest the title to such 

 property in said Institution. 



You and two others cast the only opposing 

 votes. Yet, in your article in Science you 

 state that ' It was the preference of nearly all 

 the members of the corporation that the labo- 

 ratory should be assisted by the Carnegie In- 

 stitution without being made a branch of it.' 

 I do not know on what this statement can be 

 based. 



In another part of the same article you 

 say, ' the director and other scientific men 

 serve the laboratory without salary.' The di- 

 rector, yes. The other scientific men, no. All 

 members of the staff who need or wish it 

 receive remuneration for services rendered. 



In 1901 the salaries of the scientific staff 

 amounted to $2,625. The income was $8,448.22, 

 so that the salaries were about thirty per cent, 

 of the income. In 1902, the salaries were 

 $3,700. This, of course, does not include 

 the curator, collector, janitors, boatmen, etc. 

 These are the figures given by the treasurer. 



Before the annual meeting of the corpora- 

 tion, the question was freely discussed, whether 

 teaching would be continued under Carnegie 

 Institution control, and how that would affect 

 the numerous small salaries now paid. 



It is to the credit of these men who receive 

 salaries that when they were called on to con- 

 sider the advancement of the laboratory, they 

 forgot their salaries and helped to form the 

 great majority in favor of Carnegie Institu- 

 tion control. Edw. G. Gardiner, 



Secretary. 

 Mamne Biological Laboratory, 

 Woods Hole, Mass. 



I TRUST that Dr. Gardiner will permit me to 

 reply briefly to his remarks : 



1. I am not correctly quoted in his first 

 paragraph, as may be seen i by reference to my 

 article (p. 461 above). Instead of saying that 

 the members of the corporation are ' chiefly ' 

 those who have carried on research in the 

 laboratory, it would have i been more accurate 

 if I had said that ' the chief members of the 

 corijoration ' or ' nearly all those who attend 

 meetings of the corporation ' have carried on 

 research in the laboratory. The inexactness 

 appears to be rather slight. 



2. I think I was correct in stating that ' It 

 was the preference of nearly all the members 

 of the corporation that the laboratory should 

 be assisted by the Carnegie Institution with- 

 out being made a branch of it.' The members 

 have never been permitted to make known 

 their real preference. Professor Whitman, the 

 director, and Professor Wilson, the chairman 

 of the executive committee, who both voted for 

 the transfer, have stated in Science that (to 

 quote the latter) 'An organization similar to 

 the existing one would be preferable if com- 

 patible with adequate financial support.' If 

 Dr. Gardiner had quoted the second as well as 

 the first half of my sentence, it seems to me 

 that the matter would have been sufficiently 

 explained. I continued ' but the alternative 

 was placed before them of giving away the 

 laboratory or losing the large support of the 

 Carnegie Institution and perhaps _ witnessing 

 the establishment of a rival laboratory.' 



3. My statement that ' the director and other 

 scientific men serve the laboratory without 

 salary ' is correct. Dr. Gardiner and I myself 

 are among the many scientific men who have 

 so served the laboratory. Dr. Gardiner has 

 given a large part of his time to it for many 

 years. Should the Marine Biological Labora- 



