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The accommodations at Hotel Frascati were excellent. Our 

 party so nearly filled the house that the proprietor, Mr. Alonzo 

 Peniston, put it practically at our disposal, accommodating his 

 meals to our excursions whenever it was desired. The table 

 was first-class, and not to be compared with the usual summer 

 board at seaside laboratories. The food was well cooked, was 

 abundant, and well served at tables always decked with a profu- 

 sion of flow CIS. 



The party was welcomed on its arrival at the dock by the 

 venerable Archdeacon Tucker, Hon. W. Maxwell Greene and 

 Mr. F. Goodwin Gosling, and this welcome was continued by 

 every one — high and low — during the season. His Excellency, 

 the Governor, Gen. H. LeG. Geary, was kind enough to extend 

 a hearty welcome to the party by holding a reception at Mt. 

 Langton, to which nearly two hundred guests were invited. 

 Hospitality was extended on all sides, and almost to the embar- 

 rassment of the work at times. 



The people of Bermuda became interested in the annual visits 

 of the New York University Biological Expeditions from 1897 

 to 1902, and in 1902 a committee of the Legislature was ap- 

 pointed to consider and report on the advisability of the estab- 

 lishment of a Marine Biological Station. The Colonial Secretary, 

 by direction of His Excellency the Governor, addressed a letter 

 asking for information and cooperation to the following: the 

 British Association for the Advancement of Science, the Carne- 

 gie Institution, the Royal Society, the Minister of Marine and 

 Fisheries, Canada, Dr. Auton Dohrn, Naples. The responses 

 were all heartily in favor of the idea, and this encouraged His 

 Excellency to ask the approval of the Imperial Government. 

 This was granted in a despatch from the then Secretary of State 

 for the Colonies, Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, and the way was 

 clear for further action by the Colony. In November, 1903, 

 Governor Geary sent a message to the House of Assembly which 

 has resulted in appropriate legislation without a dissenting voice. 



It may be safely said now that before long a well equipped 

 station will be available for biologists at Bermuda that will be 

 open the year round. 



During the coming summer another "temporary" station 



