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Biology is the department of human knowledge which 

 more than any other has been at the foundation of those 

 advances of civilization which are most characteristic of 

 the last half century. It has done much in its applications 

 to lengthen life, to relieve its burdens and ameliorate 

 conditions, to improve, purify, and advance the world. 

 Biological Stations have now been adopted by the univer- 

 sities, they will in time be established also in all sea-port 

 towns as municipal institutions. The great French 

 biologist and educationalist, Paul Bert, has spoken of 

 a similar institution to ours, the Station Zoologique 

 d'Arcachon, as " un etablissement d'utilite publique de 

 l'ordre de ceux dont, dans d'autres branches, la creation 

 incombe a 1' Etat." 



Nowhere in all the broad field of knowledge will a man 

 learn better to think exactly than in the natural sciences. 

 Nowhere will he be more impressed with the importance 

 of truth, for truth's sake, than when trained in accurate 

 observation and impartial record at a Biological Station. 



Appendices on (A), the Constitution and Kegulations 

 of the Committee, and (B), the Hon. Treasurer's State- 

 ment and List of Subscribers to the Funds, follow as 

 usual. 



