The Carnegie Institution of Washington . DEPARTMENT OF EXPERIMENTAL EVOLUTION. Director, Charles B. Davenport. Address, Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, New York. PRESENT INVESTIGATORY STAFF. Arthur M. W. Metz. J. Arthur Riddle. E. C. F. Blakeslee. Research in biology was one of the first subjects to receive con-sideration from the Institution, and in December 1903 a plan for astation devoted to experimental evolution, submitted by Professor. View in garden at Station for Experimental Evolution. Indian Corn, showing Iears and collecting pollen from t
The Carnegie Institution of Washington . DEPARTMENT OF EXPERIMENTAL EVOLUTION. Director, Charles B. Davenport. Address, Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, New York. PRESENT INVESTIGATORY STAFF. Arthur M. W. Metz. J. Arthur Riddle. E. C. F. Blakeslee. Research in biology was one of the first subjects to receive con-sideration from the Institution, and in December 1903 a plan for astation devoted to experimental evolution, submitted by Professor. View in garden at Station for Experimental Evolution. Indian Corn, showing Iears and collecting pollen from the tassel. for guarding Davenport, was approved. Early in 1904 a tract of land, of aboutten acres, at Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, New York, was leasedfrom the Wawepex Society for a term of fifty years; the erection of amain laboratory was soon begun, and the station was formally openedJune 11, 1904, with Professor Davenport as Director. In January1906, the official designation of Department of Experimental Evolu-tion was adopted. 13 14 DEPARTMENT OF EXPERIMENTAL EVOLUTION. The buildings used by the Department comprise the main labora-^tory and office building, the animal house, Directors residence, green-houses, pigeon houses, cat house, and a house on Goose Island,together with some minor buildings. For use in marine collecting anaphtha launch is provided. In studies in the theories of heredity, use has been made of sheep,goats, cats, rats, poultry, canaries, pigeons, and
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