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nothing more and I trust nothing less than 

 a first step toward the establishment of an 

 ideal biological station, organized on a basis 

 broad enough to represent all important 

 features of the several types of laboratories 

 hitherto known in Europe and America. 

 * * * An undertaking of such magnitude 

 cannot be a matter of local interest merely, 

 and if it be pushed with energy and wisdom, 

 it cannot fail to receive the support of the 

 universities, colleges and schools of the 

 country." There was little in the early 

 conditions of the laboratory to justify such 

 high hopes. It began with no assured co- 

 operation, no constituency, a bare building, 

 no library, no private rooms for investiga- 

 tors, only a row boat for collecting and 

 with only two instructors, seven investiga- 

 tors and eight students. 



season $1000 was given to establish the 

 Glendower Evans Library ; $2500 was 

 raised in Boston to establish two scholar- 

 ships at the laboratory as a memorial to 

 Lucretia Crocker, long a supervisor in the 

 public schools of Boston. During the 

 third season a lecture hall and library room 

 were constructed as an addition to the 

 building and the ' Gilford Homestead,' 

 together with about one-half acre of land 

 adjoining the Fish Commission was pur- 

 chased, the house being converted into a 

 dining hall ; a steam launch was also 

 secured. In the fifth year an additional 

 laboratory of the size of the original build- 

 ing was constructed. In the seventh year 

 a new laboratory was built for botany and 

 a large dining hall was erected, capable of 

 accommodating two hundred people at one 



Fig. 2. Main Building, Botanical Laboratory, Lecture Ilall and Research Laboratory. 



Since that time the growth of the labora- 

 tory in material equipment has been en- 

 couraging, while its growth in numbers and 

 in the scope and volume of scientific work 

 has been phenomenal. During the second 



time. In the ninth year a building con- 

 taining a large lecture hall and research 

 laboratories was constructed and a two- 

 masted schooner was added to the fleet of 

 collecting boats. 



