No. 601] CHARLES OTIS WHITMAN 



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Dohm, November, 1881, to May, 1882. He was interested 

 in, and recorded, the methods of microscopical research at 

 that station, and published an important paper on the em- 

 bryology, life-history and classification of Dicyemids, 

 which had some time earlier but, as Whitman proved, 

 without warrant been elevated to the position of a sub- 

 kingdom of animals, the Mesozoa. 



Returning to America in the autumn of 1882 he was ap- 

 pointed assistant in zoology at the museum of compara- 

 tive zoology of Harvard University. While here he 

 worked in cooperation with Alexander Agassiz on the de- 

 velopment of pelagic fish eggs. Two papers were pub- 

 lished on this matter and plates prepared, but no text, for 

 another. At this time he published his book on * ' Methods 

 of Research in Microscopical Anatomy and Embryology." 



In 1886 Whitman was invited to take charge of a pri- 

 vate laboratory for biological and related research that 

 Edward Phelps Allis, Jr., had planned to found on the 

 Lake at Milwaukee, Wisconsin. With Allis 's cooperation 

 Whitman then started the Journal of Morphology, the 

 first of its kind in America and based on such high ideals 

 of quality and of beauty of plates that the eighteen vol- 

 umes published entailed considerable financial loss, so 

 that finally it had to be discontinued— although it was re- 

 vived, after a lapse of five years, under other auspices. 

 The three years, '86- '89, at the Lake Laboratory saw the 

 beginning of some researches by Whitman, which were 

 mostly never completed, and by his associates, Howard 

 Ayers, William Patten, A. C. Eyeleshymer, as well by the 

 founder of the laboratory. Some of the published work 

 is of the finest quality. 



In 1888 the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods 

 Hole was organized by certain residents of Boston and 

 Professor Whitman accepted their invitation to become its 

 director. It was in the development of this laboratory 

 that Whitman 's greatest work for science was done. For 

 he introduced and upheld ideals of cooperation and scien- 

 tific democracy which led to its loyal and devoted support 

 by a large body of the working biologists of the country. 



