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can be raised. In some form or other, I have had this in mind 

 since 1876, when the Marine Laboratory at Newport was opened, 

 to which a certain number of the more advanced students of 

 Harvard University were regularly invited. In doing this, I 

 had alwa} r s hoped that the time might come for joining with 

 other institutions in establishing a more general laboratory for 

 research. Such a plan has become impracticable, as we have 

 seen ; but it still seems to me that if Harvard is to have a ma- 

 rine laboratory of her own, the conditions at Newport are very 

 favorable. 



I would therefore propose that whenever sufficient means can 

 be obtained a large Laboratory for research should be built on the 

 east side of the cove on which my own Laboratory is placed, and 

 that a dwelling-house for the use of students be erected on a 

 suitable lot in the immediate vicinity. A large sea-going launch, 

 suitable for dredging within fifty to seventy-five miles from New- 

 port, is also needed, to give better collecting facilities than we 

 have had before, and to supply larger material for the work of 

 the Laboratory. 



Until this shall be accomplished, a certain number of advanced 

 students will continue to make use, as hitherto, of the limited 

 room and facilities afforded by the existing Laboratory. But it 

 is evident that whatever can be offered will only be an adjunct 

 as it were of the larger establishment which must soon be neces- 

 sary if Harvard is to keep pace with sister Universities in this 

 department of study. 



For the less advanced students it would be necessary to equip 

 the aquarium planned for the Museum, and it would be possible, 

 with our facilities, to provide during the summer months for the 

 instruction in marine zoology of a large number of students at 

 a comparatively small expense, and thus to limit the use of the 

 smaller Laboratory at Newport to the more advanced students. 



The addition of a large public Aquarium to the equipment of 

 the Newport Laboratory would be an important adjunct. A most 

 interesting and instructive public exhibit could easily be made 

 from the more common marine animals of this part of our coast, 

 and it is quite possible to obtain the support of a sufficient 

 number of the residents of Newport in the establishment of an 

 Aquarium, as considerable interest has always been manifested 

 in such a project. The Aquarium once built and in running 



