Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 104 December 1901 to May 1902 . ivid-uals and even small partiesto the dangerous and toooften fatal waters of trop-ical America and Africa,but no missionary spiritdrives us to Woods and invigoratingbreezes stimulate the workof the day and evening, thelong collecting excursions,and the application of mindin the general and privatelaboratories. The life and the socialcongress are as varied asthe coast-line: school-teach-ers from all over the Union;students from the smallestfresh-water colleges and thelargest universities; youngaspirants for the doct
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 104 December 1901 to May 1902 . ivid-uals and even small partiesto the dangerous and toooften fatal waters of trop-ical America and Africa,but no missionary spiritdrives us to Woods and invigoratingbreezes stimulate the workof the day and evening, thelong collecting excursions,and the application of mindin the general and privatelaboratories. The life and the socialcongress are as varied asthe coast-line: school-teach-ers from all over the Union;students from the smallestfresh-water colleges and thelargest universities; youngaspirants for the doctorsdegree eager to win theirspurs; older men of estab-lished reputation in botany,zoology, physiology, psy-chology — all come underthe magnetism of the M. B. L.,5 as it is familiarly is not too strenuous; it is tem-pered by the undercurrent of the feelingthat, after all, this is summer-vacationtime, and one must not be too fact, at Woods Holl, as with our Eng-lish and Continental scientific brethren,life is well balanced and altogether rea-. Professor Anton Dohrn, Founder of the InternationalZoological Station at Naples istration of Goode, Bumpus, and others,has been a resourceful and willing allyof the biological laboratory. On the route between the famous oldtowns of New Bedford and Nantucketwe pass from Buzzards Bay through therushing tidal waters and dangerous chan-nel of Woods Holl eastward into Vine-yard Sound. Directly in front of thelaboratory lie the beautiful islands ofNonamesset and Naushon; stretchingoff to the south is the long chain ofthe Elizabeth Islands, terminating inPenikese, and familiar chiefly throughthe following rhyme: Naushon, Nashuena,Nonamesset, Uncatena,Weepecket, Pasquenese,Cuttyhunk, and Penikese. This very coast-line, the mingling of sonable, while no less productive. Thelectures and courses, too, which now em-brace the widest range from the anatomyof a crustacean to the experimental psy-chology of the chick, vary in intens
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