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tered into this day's exercises. I need not 

 name all of them, but I recall, as you will. 

 Peck, Eyder, Montgomery, Gardiner, and espe- 

 cially Whitman; and one other, the pioneer 

 who really discovered the biological advantages 

 of Woods Hole as early as 1869, and did as 

 much as any one else to inaugurate the move- 

 ment which has made this the most noteworthy 

 American center for marine biological re- 

 search. I refer, of course, to Spencer F. Baird. 



I have been asked to speak of the coopera- 

 tion that should exist between the Bureau of 

 Fisheries and the biologists and their institu- 

 tions ; but that is too large a subject to handle 

 adequately in the few minutes that have been 

 allotted to me. 



It is perhaps quite unnecessary for me to 

 state that the Bureau of Fisheries is always 

 ready to lend to biologists substantial aid and 

 effective cooperation compatible with its func- 

 tions and with the purposes for which it re- 

 ceives support from congress. The various 

 phases of this cooperation need not be men- 

 tioned, but there may be cited, as an example, 

 the scientific expeditions to which the Alba- 

 tross was assigned, under Agassiz, Jordan and 

 others, which have resulted in larger additions 

 to knowledge of the life of the sea than have 

 come from any other source, not even except- 

 ing the Challenger. 



On the other hand, many of the leading biol- 

 ogists of the country have rendered note- 

 worthy service to the bureau in investigating 

 fishery and cognate subjects. In the capacity 

 of investigators for the bureau or as the recipi- 

 ents of the courtesies at its laboratories, on its 

 vessels, or in the field, a very large proportion 

 of the prominent American biologists of the 

 last quarter of a century have cooperated in the 

 furtherance of science. At the present mo- 

 ment we are favored by cooperative relations 

 with the representatives of the biological de- 

 partments of 10 state universities and of as 

 many other front-rank universities, to say 

 nothing of various other institutions of learn- 

 ing. 



I will take this opportunity to call attention 

 to the fact that, in addition to the two marine 

 fisheries laboratories now maintained by the 



Bureau at Woods Hole and Beaufort, it is ex- 

 pected that during the next year work will be 

 commenced on a third marine biological sta- 

 tion, to be located at or near Key West, where 

 the wonderful fauna of the Gulf Stream and 

 of the abysses over which it flows, and of the 

 coral reefs and the shoal waters back of them, 

 will furnish unrivaled opportunities for re- 

 search. Furthermore, if a bill now before con- 

 gress should become a law, a fourth station will 

 be established on a site which will render ac- 

 cessible for study under government auspices 

 one of the rich biological regions of the Pa- 

 cific coast. 



During the present summer there has been 

 opened a fresh-water biological station, lo- 

 cated on the Mississippi Eiver at Fairport, 

 Iowa. It has a large laboratory building, an 

 abundant supply of crude and filtered river 

 water, an extensive pond system and a general 

 equipment that should render it an important 

 factor in the study of the biology of the waters 

 of the Mississippi Valley. 



All of these laboratories are, or will be, freely 

 open to qualified men of science, under such 

 restrictions only as are required by good ad- 

 ministration. 



Here at Woods Hole, the friendly relations 

 that already exist should be extended. The 

 two laboratories have different functions and 

 occupy different fields. There isi no reason 

 why any feeling of rivalry should exist. There 

 is every reason why mutually helpful and close 

 cooperation should prevail. Mention may be 

 made of some of the ways in which the two in- 

 stitutions may profitably work together: 



(a) Exchange of material where research is 

 being conducted on a given subject at one lab- 

 oratory and not at the other. For instance, 

 the Bureau of Fisheries is now conducting at 

 Beaufort, and will conduct next summer at 

 Woods Hole, a comprehensive study of the 

 post-embryonic development of economic fishes, 

 a very important subject to which practically 

 no attention has heretofore been given. Suit- 

 able material obtained by the Marine Biolog- 

 ical Laboratory in its towings and otherwise 

 would be valuable and most acceptable. 



