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VOL. 1. NO. 1 WOODS HOLE, MASS., WEDNESDAY, JULY 21,1926 TEN CfeNTS ACUSHNET'S BOATS LIVING CONDITIONS FOR SAVE FREIGHTER'S CREW LABORATORY WORKERS

Coal Laden Meteor, Ashore AOZOTORP The completion of the new ^with similar aims were welcomed. brick laboratory, with adequate , vv naiever seemed Off Block island In High necessary to library, and splendid facilities further the development of bet- Sea, Sinks To Bottom If hunting is classed as one and service for a large group of ter opportunities for workers in In 15 Minutes of the sports, then the sportiest investiators, supplemented by the laboratory was done with place at M. B. L. is the Proto- the considerable plant which had sacrifice of time and effort in zoology Lab., for the hunt is on. already been built up, has finally ithose days of meager income. On Sunday, July 11, unknown On June 29th, the class of '19 brought about a state of basic The work came first. Comforts to most of our scientific inhabit- was introduced to what Prof. stability which assures the fu- of living, even some necessities ants. Woods Hole witnessed the Gary N. Calkins, the Director, ture efficiency of the laboratory. of the cities were lacking. It rescue of a shipwrecked crew. termed as the "Beginning of It has all been a gradual, de- was easiest to persuade some At 11:30 in the morning the six weeks of fun". In the main termined upbuilding by a devot- Woods Hole resident to give you Acushnet, at dock here, picked the course seems to consist of a ed group which has grown larger a room in her home. It was al- up an S. 0. S. from the S. S. continuous, relentless chase of year after year, as newcomers ways the lady of the house who Meteor which had struck on the the poor defenceless Protozoa had to be persuaded, the landlord i*ocks in the thick fog and heavy in the region of Woods Hole. BIOLOGV keeping out of the deal if he seas off Block Island. The to Director, AND were spared responsibility of en- In addition the I out, jtertaining Acushnet immediately put the staff of the Protozoology or being bored by the

EXPERIMENTATION ! breaking all speed limits through instruction includes Dr. Mary intruder. the fog, and cruised around for They were often very S. MacDougall and Dr. Wool- kind and position near the wrecked vessel, patient in fixing up che spare ford B. Baker. Every morning, Last Friday evening at eight waiting for the fog to lift. room for the student. I They took including Saturday, Dr. Calkins o'clock Professor H. S. Jennings, Coast Guard Patrol Boat No. a chance he might be a pleasant lectures for one hour, and then Director of the Biological l^a- 229 was standing by the freigh- lodger even though a "bug the fun of chasing begins- But boratory at Johns Hopkins ter during the afternoon but was hunter". Sometimes a prized that kind is not the only kind University delivered a lecture prevented from going alongside suite was given up to a favorite of fun indulged in, as may be entitled : "Biology and Experi- by high seas. lodger, and even a bath was per- seen, for example, by the mentation". The twenty-three members of mitted, if there was a bathroom, schedule of this week : on Wed- It was a. superb analysis and the crew had been without food when a naturalist became very nesday, July 21, weather per. constructive picture of the con- all day, since only the super- insistent. These associations mitting, the class sets out on ditions which face the modern structure of the ship remained gave a chance for mutual endur- the good ship 'Cayadetta' at biological investigator, wit h above water. Near midnight ance. Indeed, valuable discover- 11 :4.5 for Hadley Harbor, on a their historical origins. The the fog lifted and the men were ies were made by the residents picnic. On Friday afternoon, history of recent years of pre- taken aboard the Acushnet and and by the students of rare or the 23rd, tea will be served at 'liminary recognaisance with ac- brought to Woods Hole and iunexpected human qualities and the M. B. L. Club by the Proto- counts of the currents and later taken to Boston. friendly capacities in the other zoology class. Come and counter currents of research and The quartermaster, when in- fellow. This is at the bottom of join the fun. The reason for dispute which have led to the terviewed said, "It wasn't any- much good understanding now the Saturday lectures is that modern outlook and opportuni- thing much to write about. No- common between town and Dr. Calkins expects to sail for ties for new experimentation thing much happened!". Of gown. Even the most ascetic or Europe about August 1st, a was depicted by Dr. Jennings so course not! What's a wreck aesthetic biologists developed week before the formal closing entertainingly yet briefly and more or less. Nothing ever such appetites in collecting and of the course ; with such skill in weaving all happens at Woods Hole and in order to swimming or through the inten- his lectures threads of influence and effort make complete in sive activities of laboratory work one-hour doses, into a significant pattern that there must be that quantity rather than refine- six each week. Perhaps this even the mere tyre of an inves- DR. ments of the table were in de- MORGAN tigator might realize the com- extra lecture has been the mand at the mess. So the mess plexities of the background in cause of the unusual impetus of was hardly criticized; restaur- HONORED which the problems of today are the attack on the Protozoa in ants attracted few; and a meal the laboratory, for there seems set and yet see with the lecturer's "Genetics and the Physiolo- in a home was remembered as to be a condition wherein it is clear headed vision the hopeful event. gy of Development" is the an hard to get the class out of the paths forward now opening title of the fifth William But this simple irresponsible laboratory and from their from what might seem a tangled Thompson Sedgwich Memorial away state was gradually affected by microscopes. Instead of hav- maze. lecture to be delivered by Dr. the inevitable biological results ing as a goal, "Recognizable The final drawing together of T. H. of growth and multiplication. Morgan in the laboratory every useful ray of thought drawings of 100 different Need of organization and segre- auditorium at eight o'clock on migjit aid the iview of species," some members of the which gation to minimize interference Tuesday evening, July 27. The conditions, influences, helpful class seem to have adopted from new domestic duties of the public is cordially invited to 1000 as their quota. pathways and warnings of false attend. The speed student, now become professor guides masterful in its com- resulting from so much time in was with a family, forced such to This honor is annually con- the laboratory sometimes leads prehensive scope,; penetrating turn seriously to the problem of ferred on "men of disting- brilliant to dagger-looks for some in. insight, diction, and living. These now began to rent uished imminence in some sub- well dividuals from others who have withall balanced result. or buy houses. Some even de- ject within the scope of biolo- the usual desire to swim and One may seem to assemble an veloped such excellent tactics as gy and public health." The play tennis and so forth, as a excess of adjectives, but a read- to venture to supplant residents lecturer is chosen each year by raise in the course require- ing of the forthcoming published for a while by inducing them to a committee composed of six ments seems imminent. lecture will satisfy the exacting give up their houses for the sum- of ithe leading men in these critic that this appreciation is Perhaps this speed is some- mer. sciences. Dr. Gary N. Calkins not extreme. is member of this committee. ^ (Continued on Page 7) H. McE. K. (Continued in Next Issue) !

PACxE TWO DRS. CHAMBERS AND The dance at the M. B. L. Club FISH on Saturday evening will fill a JELLY • ••••• REZNIKOFF ENTERTAIN long felt want. Many of us do auspices of the M. Issued under the not care to work on Saturday Sure, and we are the "bud- B. L. Club. Give Actual Screen Demonstra- evening and are occassionally ding" invertebrates! When puzzlea about the best way to our source of preliminary in- tion of Micro-disection to Club Officers obtain a couple of hours of re- formation, the catalogue, says, P>es. Enthusiastic Audience D. J. Edwards creation at this time. "The course is designed for Speidel Vice-Pres. C. C. It would be difficult to estimate those who have had previous On Friday evening Dr. Cham- Sec-Treas. — Sampson the number of couples that each training in zoology and more bers gave an interesting lecture Florence Tinkham. C/«n'r. House Com. week seeiv amusement outside of especially for those having a entitled; "Some Aspects of the Chair. Social Com. Marion "Rea but it is perhaps interest in the Woods Hole, professional Reaction of Protoplasm to Salts" greater than is commonly sup- subject. It will consist of lab- and an exhibit by projection on Editorial Staff posed. For those of us who do oratory and field work with have an unlimited amount of given with the view a trancelucent screen was given Ware Cattell Managing Edito not lectures, or time, and who do not student, not by the actual process of mani- Associate Editors: Helen H Cat-.nioney to familiarize the have cars at our disposal, the only with the anatomy, but also pulating needles tell, E. R. Clark, L. B. Clark, Anna C. an amioba with plans for the inauguration of and general Dunlap, Margaret Speidel. with the habits and pipeltes. the Saturday night dances are ecological relations of the ani- Contributing Editors This lecture was quite a de- received enthusiastically. We can well, they sim- Algae mals studied"— Helen I. Morris that parture in emphasis on demon- „,.„ . , join the party at the time ply haven't told the half of it, C. H. ^^ '"^y ^"-'"'"''^ tits in with our schedule of work not an iota of the work and the stration as compared to descrip- X. Y. Hollander. .Anions and Snoitac and leave at the time that suits fun we're having. And for tion. Dr. Chambers discussed the Cecile Conklin Embroyos us best. They will be a medium some reason they forgot to say Eleanor Sloane Jelly Fish effects of exposing amoeba and through which we can meet that we have representatives certain marine to the action W. V. Craghton Pieces ova workers outside our own group, from all the rungs of the intel- Helen Jennings Town Topics of the four salts commonly found and greatly extend our circle of lectu:;l ladder; from P.H.D.'s in sea water and in blood by im- acquaintances. And last but not whose efficiency and scientific mersing in various solutions; officially born on Mon- I was least, the five dollar bill that enthusiasm are astounding to and these results were compared 12, when the Executive day July would have been consumed had undergraduates who still smash with reactions produced by mio- of the Marine Bio- Committee we spent the evening at one of coverslips and specimens in in- roinjections of the same solu- Laboratory sanctioned logical the places on the Cape will re- fantile abandon, so that they tions into the substance of the the proposal for my birth. It main untouched. The orchestra, must needs approach the sup- organisms. was not a case of artificial activ- i-efreshments and the opportuni ply desk with the humiliating Some interesting contrasts of ation for perfectly natural condi- ty of dancing with so many admission, "I'm so sorry but I effects were shown for chorme- tions initiated my development. members of the Club will make smashed it!" somes and Cytoplasm. The It was the actual need of an the evening more fun than one Such a time as we had rout- points were brought out chiefly agent within the institution to spent outside of Woods Hole. ing out long fingered suctoria by photographs and diagrams, diseminate news among its Thus these dances will be of and spineless amoebae for J. furnishing pictures of proto- workers and to co-ordinate the benefit from the point of view A. Dawson, erstwhile brilliant plasmie structure and behavior varied activities of the labora- of our work, for talking to peo- performer, at a sport which of quite definite nature. tory. ple whose problems are in the demands every spare minute At this very early stage in my same or widely in different elds Following this, the lecturer immediately behind the invert- suc- life I am naturally lacking in is helpful and inspiring. Those gave a very exceptionally ebrate lab- We blush to admit certain qualities. Unity, organi- working in research, or those cessful demonstration in pro- it, but it actually took some of zation and differentiation were students planning to take up this jections through the new Leitz us two whole days to convince incorporated into my amor- same or in widely different fields combined macro and micro-pro- ourselves that diatoms, even pherous and plastic body. Hav-jwork should seize every oppor- jection apparatus of actual ex- though they did exhibit the ing had a natural origin I mayjtunity of becoming acquainted periments made by Dr. Reznik- most graceful locomotion possi- look forward to normal growth iwith their fellow workers. The off on living amoeba with the ever new type Chambers-Leitz Micro- and development, and in-lmost useful thing that our Club (Continued on Page 8) creasing usefulness. |can do is to use its ingenuity in manipulater. These demonstra- of the behavior of living But I am only an infant and bringing about conditions that it tions EVENING LECTURES to 500 must be carefully nurtured and!at least make it possible for cells under experiment Auditorium 8:00 P- M. encouraged. My diet must bejevery member of the Club to people furni.shed a novel and Tuesday, July 20. Dr. much applauded departure. judiciously chosen so as to be ^ meet every other member. W. easily digested and properly ap-! O. Fenn, Rochester University predated. But give me some' FOREIGN BOTANIST School of Medicine. "Some of RESEARCH BY FOREIGN substanial food. TO LECTURE the Problems Concerned With I am weak and helpless and by — the Shortening of MuscleS." BIOLOGISTS AT YALE Niles Svedelius, Professor oi force of circumstances I may in ^ Friday, July 23. Dr. E. -botany at the University of Lund Witschi, some wavs lack individuality, Basel University, Six foreign scholars will take Externaragents are inhibiting''." Switzerland, and one of the Switzerland. "Heredity and up residence at Yale University certain natural tendencies, but foremost students of marine Environment in Sex Determina- intends to visit next year to conduct research it is essential for continued exis-iflgae America tion." ^o attend the International Bot- fence that I adapt myself to my Tuesday, July 27. The under the direction of the facu- 'animal environment. It is to be hoped Congress to be held at William Thompson Memorial lty of the Yale Graduate School. Ithaca. He will arrive m this Lecture, that in the course of evolution | delivered by Thomas These include five research fel- environment will undergo 'country on August 6, and be- Hunt Morgan, mv Columbia Uni- lows of the International Educa- the necessary modifications to |*^ween that time and the opening versity. "Genetics and the tion Board, Dr. Pasquale Pas- makemvlifealittlemoresimple of the Congress on Aug. 23 he Physiology of Development." '^^^'^ ^'^^^^ Woods Hole deliver (juini, of the University of Rome, and useful and Friday, July 30 Prof. L. Italy; Dr. Stanislaw Hiller, of a lecture. Anyone interested is Michaels, Johns Hopkins Uni- cordially invited Cracow, Poland; Dr. Ernest to attend Pro- versity. "The Properties of The.se introductory para- fessor Svedelius' lecture. Wolf, of the University of Hei- Certain Artificial Membranes graphs were respectfully sub- delberg, Germany; Dr. B. M. as a Model for Cell Mem- mitted to a representative of the • Dr. B. M. Duggar, professor Bergerson, of the University branes-" of "external factors" but we were of plant physiology at the Uni- Oslo. Norway, and Dr. Fritz E. good-naturedly told that it was versity of Missouri and physio- Special Evening Lecture Lehmann, of the University of up to us to conduct our little logist to the Missouri Botanical Auditorium 8:00 P. M. Freiburg, Germany, who have paper as we saw fit and that Garden, has been elected a mem- Thursday, July 22. Prof. W. been appointed to carry on re- they, (referring to those con- ber and chairman pro-tem, of Patten, Dartmouth College. search under the direction of cerned) were quite capable of the board of trustees of the Hunting for Missing Links in Dr. Ross G. Harrison, of the de- taking care of themselves. Bermuda Biologcal Station. Spitzberger." Illustrated. partment of zoology. PAGE THREE DIRECTORY FOR 1926

Abbreviations Amberson, R., asst. prof, phys., Ciien, T. W. Y., grad. stud, protozool., Grave, B. H., prof, zool., Wabash Botany Building Bot. Pennsylvania. Columbia. Br. 314. (Ind.). Br. 234. Fenn, Chidester, F. zool.. Brick Building Br. W. O., prof, phys., Rochester. E., prof, West Grave, C, prof, zool., Washington Virginia. Lecture Hall L. Knowlton, F. P., prof, phys., Syra- Br. 344. (St. Louis). Br. 226. Old Main Building Choate, Dorothy, stud, zool., Penn- 0. M. cuse. Guthrie, Mary J., asst. prof, sylvania. zool., Rockefeller Building Rock. Hartline, H. K., asst. in Woods Hole Br. 217. Missouri. Br. 336. course. Christie, J. R., assoc. nematologist, The abbreviations used for the Hague, Florence, asst. prof, phys., U. S. Dept. Agr. Rock. East. positions and institutions are the Oregon Agr. Rock. North. BOTANY Clark, Mrs. E. L., grad. stud, anat., same as those incorporated in Hance, R. T., assoc. Rockefeller I. Investigation Pennsylvania Med. Br. 311. "American Men of Science." Thus, Institute. Br. 208. Dugger, B. M., prof, plant phys., Clark, E. R., prof, anat., Pennsylvan- taking Dr. Amberson as an example, Hartline, H. K., grad. stud, phys., Washington (St. Louis). ia. Med. Br. 311. his position during the regular col- Hopkins Med. Br. 229. Clark, L. B., grad. stud, zool., Hoo- lege year is assistant professor of Allen, C. E., prof, bot., Wisconsin Harnly, Marie kins. Br. 315. L., lab. assist, to Dr. physiology at the University of Penn- (absent). Morgan, Cobb, N. A., agr. technologist., U. S. Columbia. Br. 321. sylvania. His work at the laboratory Brooks, S. C, Dept. Public Health, Harnly, Dept. Agr. Rock. East. M. H., grad. stud, zool., is carried out in the Brick Building Washington, D. C. Cole, E. C, asst. prof, biol., Williams. Columbia. Br. 314. in Room 309. Robbins, W. J., prof, bot., Missouri. 0. M. 24. Harvey, E. N., prof, phys., Princeton. (absent) Br. 116. Cole, L. J., prof, genetics, Wiscon- Schramm, J. R., Editor-in-Chief, THE STAFF sin. Br. 118. Hayden, Margaret A., asst. prof. Biological Abstracts, Pennsylvania. Collett, MaryS., assoc. prof, phys.. zool., Wellesley. 0. M. 5. Lillie, F. R., Director, prof, emb., (absent) Western Reserve. 4. Haynes, Rachel, histologist. chair, dept. zool., Chicago. 0. M. Com- II. Instruction Coolidge, mission Stand. Biol. Stains. Jacobs, M. H., Associate Director, T., grad. stud, biochem. 0. M. Lewis, I. F., prof, biol., Virginia. Harvard Med. Br. 107. Base. prof, phys., Pennsylvania. Haywood, Hazen, T. E., asst. prof, bot., Bar- Copeland, M. prof, biol., Bowdoin. Charlotte, . grad, .stud. ZOOLOGY nard. Br. 334. zool., Pennsylvania. Rock. West. I. Investigation Taylor, W. R., asst. prof, bot., Penn- Covell, W. P., asst. anat.. Rockefeller Hazen, T. E., asst. prof, bot., Colum- Calkins, G. N., prof, protozool., Co- sylvania. Inst. Br. 209B. bia. Bot. 24. lumbia. Cowdry, E. V., assoc. memb.. Rocke- Heilbrunn, L. V., aSst. prof, zool., Conklin, E. G., prof, zool., Prince- feller Institute. Br. 209B. Michigan. Br. 330. ton (absent). INVESTIGATORS Craighill, 'Caroline. Br. 223. Hemmeter, J. C, prof. clin. med., Grave, C, prof, zool., Washington Cuajunco, F., instr. anat., Univ. Maryland. L. 33. Amberson, W. R., asst. prof, phys., (St. Louis). Philippines. Br. 111. Hess, Olga T., grad, Pennsylvania, Br. 309. stud.. Brown. Jennings, H. S., prof, zool., Hopkins. Curtis, W. C, prof, zool., Missouri. 0. M. Base. Anderson, Pearl, inst. zool., Mary- Lillie, F. R., prof, of emb., Chicago. Hess, Walter land. 0. M. Base. L 28 N., prof, zool., De McClung, C. E., prof, zool., Penns- Darby, H. H., instr. Pauw. Br. Armstrong, P., instr. anat., Cornell biol., N. Y. sylvania. Univ. Hickman, Jane F., grad. Med. Br. 318. Br. 342. stud, zool., Mast, S. O., prof, zool., Hopkins. Dawson, J. A., instr. zool.. Missouri. Br. 217. Avery, Mrs. M. S., bacteriologist. Harvard Morgan, T. H., prof. expt. zool., Co- 0. M. 29. Hinricks, Marie Am. Univ. Beirut, Syria. Br. 111. A., Nat. Res. fellow, lumbia. DeForest, D. M., instr. biol.. Chicago. Br. 335. Avery, B. F., prof, anat., Am. Univ. Union. Parker, G. H., prof, zool.. Harvard, Br. 343. Hisaw, Beirut, Syria. Br. 111. F. L., asst. prof, zool., Wis- (absent). DeGraff, A. instr. phys., consin. Arvo, Impi, res. asst. zool., Union. C, N. Y. L. 26. Wilson, E. B., prof. zool. .Columbia. Br. 343. Univ. Med. Br. 110. Hogben, L., assoc. prof, zool., Mc- II. Instruction Donaldson, H. H., prof. neur. Wistar, Gill. Br. 213. Baker, H. N., . gi-ad. stud. zool., Inst., Br. 117. Dawson, J. A., instr. zool., Harvard. Hopkins. 0. M. Base. Holt, L. E., assoc. in pedratncs, Hop- Dolley, W. L., Jr., prof, biol., Buffalo. Martin, E. A., asst. prof, zool.. Col. Baker, W. B., assoc. prof, biol., kins Hosp. L. 29. Br. 339. City, N. Y. Emory. 0. M. 21. Hoskins, Mrs. M. M., asst. prof. anat. Downing, R. asst. zool., Wabash. Cole, E. C, asst. prof. zool.. Williams Barth, L. G., grad. asst. biol., Michi- C, N. Y. Univ. Col. Dent. Br. 305. Br. 234. Bennitt, R. instr. biol., Tufts. gan. Br. 217. Howlands, Ruth B., asst. prof, biol., Dugger, B. M., prof, plant phys., Bissonnette, T. H., prof. biol., Baskerville, Margaret, asst. prof, N. Y. Univ. Br. 315. Trinity. phys., geo. med. Washington (St. Louis). Br. 122A. Hughes, T. P., Ass't. Rockerfeller assoc, Grant, Madeleine P., asst. prof, zool.. Bennitt,. R., instr. biol., Tufts. O. Edwards, D. J., prof, phys., Institute. Mount Holyoke. M. 25. Cornell Med. Br. 214. Hulpieu, H. R., grad. stud, zool., Willier, B. H., asst. prof, zool., Benson, Gertrude C, grad. stud, Ellsworth, R. M., asst. physician, Hopkins.' Br. 312. Chicago. zool., Michigan. Br. 217. Hopkins Hosp. Br. 302. Humphreys, G. H., grad. stud. bio. 'Young, D. B., assoc. prof, biol., Bergner, A. Dorothy, gi'ad. stud, Fales, Doris E., grad. asst. zool., chem.. Harvard Med. Br. 108. Arizona. zool., Columbia. Br. 314. Wc- tern Resei ve. Rock. North. Inman, O. L., prof, biol., Antioch. McCluIIen, Helen, lab. asst. in Bigelow, R. P., prof, zool., Mass., Farr. C. W., a = soc. prof. phys., Br. 114. Woods Hole course. Inst. Tech. Br. 340. Washington (St. Louis). O. M. Irwin, Marion, assoc. phys.. Rockefel- PROTOZOOLOGY Bissonette, T. H., prof, biol., Trinity. Base. ler Institute. Br. 207. 0. M. 31. Fenn, W. O., prof, phys., Rochester Jacobs, M. H., prof, zool., Pennsyl- I. Investigation Blumenthal, R. grad. stud, phys., Med. Br. 313. vania. Br. 102. See Zoology Pennsylvania. Br. 217. Fogg, J. M., Jr., inst. bot., Pennsyl- Jennings, H. S., prof. zool., Hopkins. Br. 304. II. Instruction Bodansky, O., res. asst. chem. Colum- vania. Bot. 22. bia. Br. 122C. Fogg, L. C, grad. stud, zool, Colum- Johnson, Helen R., asst. biol., Brown. Calkins, G. N., prof, protozool., Co- Bodine, J. H., asst. prof, zool., Penn- •bia. Br. 314. Br. 233. lumbia. sylvania. Br. 220. Folger, H. T., instr. zool., Michigan. Johnson, H. H., instr. biol., Col. City Baker, W. B., assoc. prof, biol., Bowen, instr. L. 32. N. Y. O. M. Base. Emory. Edith S., zool.. Hood (Maryland). Rock. North. Fry, H. J., asst. prof, emb., N .Y. Just, E. E., . prof, zool., Howard. MacDougall, Mary S-, prof, zool., Bowen, R. H.', asst. prof, zool,, Univ. 0. M. Base. Br. 228. Agnes Scott. Columbia. Br. 327. Gabritschevsky, E., asst. genetics, Kahn, M. C, instr. hygiene, Cornell EMBRYOLOGY Bowling, Rachel., stud, biol., Colum Univ. Moscow, Russia. Br. 332. Mod. Br. 121.

I. Investigation bia. Br. 331. Gardner, Mary S., grad. stud, biol., Kapp, Eleanor M., grad. stud, phys., Pennsylvania. Rock. West. See Zoology Bowman, P. W., instr. bot., George Bryn MawT. Br. 315. Washington. Bot. 22. Gates, F. L., assoc memb. Rockefeller Karns, Hilda E. teach, biol., Jr. High II. Instruction Bridges, C. B., res. asst., Carnegie Institute. Br. 209A. Sch. (N. J.) Br. 122. D. Goodrich, H. B., prof, biol., Wesleyan. Inst. Br. 332. Gates, G. E., head biol. dept., Judson Keefe, A. M., prof, biol., St. Nor- Grave, B. H., prof, biol., Wabash. Brieger, F. G., Rockfeller. res. fel- Col., Burma. Br. 217. beck's (Wis.). Bot. 5. Packard, C, assoc, Inst. Cancer Res., low. Bussey Inst, Bot. 6. Genther, Ida T., asst. instr. phys., Knower, H. M., prof, anat., Alabama. Columbia. Brooks, S. B., biologist, Hygienic Wisconsin. Br. 122C. Br. 115. Plough, H. H., prof, biol., Amherst. Lab., Washington, D. C. Bot. 4. Glaser, O. C-, prof, biol., Amherst. Knowlton, F. P., prof, phys., Syra- Rogers, C. G., prof. comp'. phys., Brooks, Mrs. M. M., assoc. biol., Br. 204. cuse Med. Br. 106. Oberlin. Hygenic Lab., Washington, D. C. Glusker, D., grad. stud. phys. Penn- Koehring, 'Vera, instr. zool.. Smith. PHYSIOLOGY Bot. 4. sylvania Med. Br. 309. Br. 217. Brown, D. E. S., instr. phys., N. Y. Goldfarb, A. J., prof, biol.. Col. City Lancefield, D. E., asst. prof, zool., I. Investigation Univ. Br. 342. N. Y. L. 34. Columbia. Br. 1. Bradley, H. C, prof. phys. chem., Byerly, T. C, prof, zool., lowa State Goodrich, H. B., pr(](f. biol., Wes- Lancefield, Rebecca C, asst., Hosp. Wisconsin (absent). L. 23. leyan. Br. 210. Rockefeller Institute. Br. 206. Garrey, W. E., prof, phys., Vander- Calkins, G. N., prof, protozool., Col- Grand, C, asst. anat., Cornell Med. Landis, E. M., grad. stud, phys., bilt Med. (absent). umbia. Br. 331. Br. 328. Pennsylvania. Br. 309. Lillie, R. S., prof. gen. phys., Chicago Cattell, W., res fellow biol.. Memorial Grant, C. W., instr. bact.. Battle Lewis, I. F., prof, biol., Virginia. Mathews, A. P., prof, biochem., Cin- Hosp., N. Y. Br. 123. Creek. Br. 111. Bot. 26. cinnati. Cattell, M., instr. phys., Cornell Med. Grant, Jean F., instr. St. Mary's Sch. Lillie, F. R., prof, zool., Chicago. II. Instruction Br. 214. (N. C). Bot. 3. Br. 101. Jacobs, M. H., asst. prof, phys., Penn- Chambers, R., prof, anat., Cornell Grant, Madeleine P., asst. prof, zool., Lillie, R. S., prof, phys., Chicago. sylvania. Med. Br. 328. Mt. Holyoke. 0. M. 32. Br. 326. PAGE FOUR

A., grad. stud. chem. Goebul, V/. F., asst. chem.. Rock. Popa, G. T., chief asst. emb., Buka- Wolff, W. INVESTIGATORS—Cont. Pennsylvania. Br. 8. Inst., phys. resc (Roumania). Br. 225. Loeb, L., prof. path. Wash. Univ. Woodrutt, L. L., prof, protozool Y'ale. Gordan, Isabella, res. worker. Imper- Potter, G. E., instr. zool., Iowa State. .Med. Br. 122C. Br. 323. ial Collsge, London. L. 23. Long, Margaret E., grmi. Stud, zool., Wo.jdward, Alvalyn E., asSOC. prof. Grifnn, Grace, Columbia, bot. Rand, H. W., assoc. prof, zool., Har- Pennsylvania. Br. 217. phys., Maine. L. 24. Hansen, I. B., Wesleyan, emb. vard. L. 30. Loucks M. M., fellow phys., Minneso- Ymng, D. B., prof, bio Arizona. Hahnert, W. F., De Pauw, zool. Ratciiffe, F. N., grad. stud, biol., ta. Br. 110. 0. M. 33. Hardesty, Mary, Newcomb, zool. Princeton. Br. 110. Lucac, A. M., instr. zool., Washing- Zimmerman, Averill A., asst. bio Harrington, J. T., Dalhousie, emb. Redfield, A. C, asst. prof, phys., ton (St. Louis). Br. 111. physics. West). Reserve Br. 314. Herman, Myra, grad. stud., Columbia, Harvard Med. Br. 107. Lucke, B., asst. prof, path., Penn emb. Helen., i'lat. Res. fellov/, sylvania. Br. 310. Redfield, STUDENTS Herskowitz, I. A., Columbia, zool. Hopkins. Columbia. Br. 314. Hess, W. N., prof, zool., De Pauw, Lynch, Ruth S., instr. zool., The abbreviations used are the Br. 304. Reznikoff, P., assoc. anat. instr. med., phys. same as in the list of Investigators. Lyons, C, stud, zool., Alabama. Br. Cornell Med. Br. 328. Hewes, Edna M., grad. stud. Roches- In the case of Miss Arnold the in- 217. Rogers, C. G., prof, phys., Oberlin. ter, zool. lormation given is that she is an un- prof, zool., Pennsyl- Br. 218. Hewitt, Dorothy C, Mt. Holyoke, McClung, C. E., dergraduate student at Wellesley vania. Br. 219. Rowlee, Silence, instr. bot., Welles- zool. College and that she is taking the McCutcheon, M. asst. prof, path., ley. Bot. 1. Hinchey, Mary C, instr. zool., course in botany at the laboratory. Pennsylvania. Br. 310. Schultz, J., asst. zool., Columbia. Hollins (Virginia), emb. If the person in question has a posi- MacDougall, Mary S., prof, biol., Br. 314. Hitchcook, D. I., assoc. Rock. Inst., tion other than that of an under- Agnes Scott. 0. M. 22. Schrader, F., assoc. prof, biol., Bryn phys. graduate student it is so indicated. McMulIen, Eleanor C, instr. zool., Mawr. Br. 125. Holcomb, Mrs. Daisy Y., instr. zool., Dorothy E., Wellesley, Bot. Cornell. L. 31. Schrader, .Mrs. I. H., instr. biol., Bryn Arnold, Arkansas, emb. anat.. Am. Univ. McNamara, Helen, tchr. Rockfeller lUav»r. Br. 125. Avery, B. F., prof, Hollander, F., Nat. Res. fellow, med., Zool. Institute. Br. 207. Schwartzbach, S., med. stud. Mary- Beirut, Svria, Yale, Phys. Radcliffe, Zool. Martin, E. A., asst. prof. zool.. Col. land. Br. 122B. Beale, Alice, Holmes, Gladys E., Brown, emb. teach, biol.. Girls' H. S., Citv N. Y. O. M. 2. Scott, J. P., photographer, Science Bean, R. C, Holmes, M. Tlielma, instr., biol, Syra- Zool. Mast, S. O., prof, zool., Hcpkms. Service. 0. M. 6. Boston, cuse, phys. Wai)aon, Zooi. Br. 312. Scott, W. J., grad. stud. phys. Penn- Beaver, P. C, Holton, Ruth G., protozool. Mt. Holyoke, Matthews, Annette, stud, biol., IVIaine. sylvania. O. M. 7. Bonner, Miriam C, Horsley, G. W. Virginia, emb. L. 24. Shearer, E. M., grad. stud, emb., Emb. Hummel, Katharine P., zool. Inion. Bing, F. C., Pennsylvania, Phys. Mavor, J. W., prof, biol., Princeton. Br. 110. Hunt, T. E., Jr., Chicag-o, zool. Dalhousie, (Can.) Br. 343. jmith, D. C, res. worker. Harvard Borden, Mabel A., Hurlbutt, Ellen L., instr. zool., Con- , „ Bot. zool. Means, J. H., prof. clin. med.. Har- Med. Br. 217. necticut, phys., Mt. vard Med. Br. 110. Smith, Fanny F., res. asst. plant Boyd, Marjorie, instr. Irwin, Marion S., instr. zooL, Carle- Metz, C. W., staff memb. Carnegie phys., Washington (St. Louis) Holyoke, Phys. ton, zool. instr. biol., Dana Inst. Cold Spring Harbor. Br. 222. Brl 122A. Brannon, Lida C, Jeffers, Katharine R., Missouri, zool. Michaelis, L., resident lect. med., Smith, W. A., res. asst. phys., Penn- Hall, (Mass.) Emb. Kellicott, Janet, Barnard, emb. Hopkins. Br. 319. sylvania. Br. 205. Britten, S. A., Hamilton, Emb. Kinney, Elizabeth T., grad. asst., J., instr, St. Mary of Miller, H. M. asst. to C. Grave. Br. Sonneborn, M. .T, grad. stud, zool., iirown, Helen Washington (St. Louis), phys. 226. Hopkins. Br. 303. Springs (Ohio) Bot. Klinger, Carol, Wabash, bot. teach. biol., Mitchell, W. H. Jr., grad. stud, proto- Spauldin.j, Janet, res. asst. anat., Buehler, Katherine, Lewis, Sara I., instr. bot.. Northwest- Bot. zool.. Harvard. Br. 217. Cornell Med. Br. 317. Albany H. S., ern, bot. asst. phys., S. Mitchell, P. H., assoc. prof, phys., Speidel, C. C, assoc. prof, anat., Vir- Campos, F. A. deM., Lin, C. L., Cornell, protozool. Sch. (Brazil) Emb. Browm. Br. 233. ginia. 0. M. 28. Paulo Medical Lu, H. L., Huping Christian (China), instr. zool., Penn- Morgan, T. H., prof. exp. zool., Co- Stern, C, res. fellow zool.. Kaiser Canavan, W. P., emb. sylvania, lumbia. Br. 320. Wilhelm Inst. Br. 333. Protozool. Maclean, Bernice L., asst. zool., Mt. Esther, asst. zool., Morrill, C. v., asst. prof, anat., Cor- Stockard, C. R., prof, anat., Cornell Carpenter, Wis- Holyoke, zool. nell Med. L. 27. Med. Br. 317. consin, Emb. McCoy, O. R., grad. asst. zool., Wash- stud, phys., Chase, A. M., Amherst, Zool. ington (St. Louis), zool. Morrison, Mary E., grad. Strong, O. S., assoc prof, neur., North. Chen, H. K., grad. stud., Illinois, Jr., zool. Pennsylvania. Rock. Columbia. Br. 8. McGaun, R. C-, Amherst, biophysics, Cleve- Emb. MacKay, Mary E., asst. zool., Dal- Morse, S., assoc. Sumwalt, Margaret, grad. stud, phys., Chen, T. Y., grad. stud., Columbia, I land Clinic. Br. 341. Pennsylvania. Rock. West. iTOUsie (Can.), phys. Mildred, res. ass't. Carnegie Protozool. McKinney, Mary A., asst. prof, biol., Moses, Svenson, H. K., asst. prof, biol.. Inst. Br. 223. Clark, Elizabeth B., Radcliffe, Bot. Austin State Teach., protozool. Union. Bot. 2. Nachtsheim, H., fellow Int. Ed. Clarke, G. L., Harvard, Zool. McMulIen, D. B., grad. asst. zool., Taylor, I. R., instr. phys., Pennsyl- 333. Cline, Elsie, Hopkins, Bot. Washington (St. Louis), zool. Board. Br. vania. Br. 217. instr. phys., Georgia Climenko, D. R., Dartmouth, Emb. Main, R. J., Rutgers, bot. Nadler, J. E., Taylor, W. R., asst. prof, bot., Penn- Connard, Mary H., Vassar, Bot. Markle, M. S., prof, biol., Earlham Med. Br. 110. sylvania. 25. Bot. Conklin, Cecile L., instr., asst. zool., Leningrad Goucher, (Ind.), zool. Nassonov, D., Thomas, Fransicca K., asst. phys. to Emb. Marsland, instr. biol., (Russia). 0. M. 3. D. A., N. Y. Dr. Means, Mass. Hosp. Br. 109. Craighill, Caroline B., lab. asst., Car- Univ., protozool. Nomura, S., asst. prof, phys.. Im- Thomas, G. W. med. stud. Harvard negie Inst. (Washington). Miller, (St. perial Univ. Japan. Helen M., Washington Med. Br. 108. Copeland, J. J., Earlham (Ind.). Louis), phys. Nonidez, J. F., assoc. anat. Cornell Titlebaum, A. stud. emb. Columbia. Bot. Miller, R. Lafayette, zool. Med. L. 22. M-, Br. 314. Crawford, W. W., grad. asst. zool., Morris, Helen S., Hunter, proto. Oliphant, Dolores, stud, zool., Mt. Uhlenhuth, Mrs. E., res. asst. to Dr. Missouri, Zool. Morton, H. S., Dalhousie (Can.), Holyoke. Bot. 1. Uhlenhuth. Br. 122D. Crosman, A. M., grad. stud., Colum- phys. Orbison, Agnes, asst. prof. zool., Uhlenhuth, E., assoc prof, anat., bia, Protozool. Nalin, Laura J., asst. zool., Missouri, Elmira. Br. 336. Maryland Med. Br. 122D. Cu-i'uncc. F. instr. anat., Univ. zool. Packard, C, assoc, Inst. Cancer Re- Uhlemeyer, Bertha, asst. prof, proto, Philippines, Emb. Nelsen, O. E., instr. zool., Pittsburgh, . search, Columbia. 0. M. 26. zooi. Washington (St. Louis). Br. Daniel, G. E., Arkansas, zool. emb. Page, I. H., chemist, Eli Lilly. Br. 22G. Dawley, Charlotte, asst. zool., Wash- Nomura, S., asst. prof, phys.. Imp. 325. Vicari, Emilia M-, med. stud., Cor- ington (St. Louis), zool. Univ. (Japan), phys. D., asst. prof, chem., Palmer, G. nell Med. Br. 317. DeForest, D. M., instr. biol.. Union, Parpart, A. K., grad. asst. zool., Am- State. O. M. Base. Kansas Wallace, Edith M. artist to Dr. Mor- phys. herst, protozool. physiologist. Marine Pantin, C. F. A., gan, Columbia. Br. 321. Diller, W. F., instr. biol., Franklin Parpart, Mrs. E. R., grad. stud. Smith, Plymouth, Eng. Br. Biol. Assoc, W-«csp. A. O., prof, zool., Oklahoma. and Marshall, protozool. emb. 324. L. 25. Dowling, A. S., grad. stud.. Harvard, Parker, R. C, asst. biol., Yale, zool. as?t prof, zool., Parmenter, C. L.. Wipman, H. S., prof, zool., Cincin- phys. Payne, Nellie M., Nat. Res. fellow, Pennslyvania. Br. 221. nati. Br. 334. Drayer, C. S., Ohio Wesleyan, zool. Pennsylvania, zool. Int. Pasoi.ini, P., Ed. Board Fellow, Wierda, J. L., inst. anat., Cornell, Br. Duryee, W. R., Yale, zool. Perrine, Ruth R., Oberlin, zool. zool. Br. 315. 312. Dyer, Helen A., asst. pharm. hygi- Peterson, Daggmar H., res. zool., N. enic lab., Washington, bot. Peebles, Florence, phys. L. 21. Wilbur, ,'_ois, instr. phys., Pennsyl- D. C, phys. J. Agri. Exp. Sta., Perkins. E B., grad. stud, zool;. Har- vania. Br. 217. East, Elizabeth W., Wellesley, zool. Pierce, Madeline E., Radcliffe, zool. Eggerdink, Anne G., Hunter, emb. Pinkston, J. instr. biol.. Southern, vard Med. Wilhelm, J. F., Jr., asst. zool., Wa- O., Else, Perlzweii;, W. A., msooc mod., Hop- bash (Ind). Br. 234. F. L., instr. zool., Pennsylvania, Ala., phvs. emb. Pike, Michigan, zool. kins Hosp. Br. 319. Williams, R. G., Nat. Res. fellow neur M. H., Esaki, S., asst. prof, zool., Chicago, Popa, T., chief asst., Bukarest, PelTSon, Walbu-g? A., fellf/W ZOOl, Pennsylvania. Br. 311. G. emb. Roumania, emb. Chicago. O. M. Base. Willier, B. H., asst. prof, zool., Tarr, Marion M., asst. zool., Vassar, Preu, P. W., Cornell Med., emb. Plough, H. H., prof, biol., Amherst. Chicago. 0. M. 27. zool. Reinhard, E. G., instr. zool., Buffalo Br. 126. Wilson, E. B., prof, zool., Columbia. Field, Madeline E., asst. phys., Mt. .Soc. Nat. Sciences, zool. Plunkett, C. R., instr. phys., N. Y. Br. 322. Holyoke, phys. Rich, Robins, Sweet Briar, zool. Univ. Br. 1. Wilson, J. asst. biol., W. prof, GafTney, Catherine A., Hunter, bot. Robertson, D. F., Missouri, phys. Pollack, H. med. stud., Cornell Med. Brown. Br. 329. Garner, M. R., asst. prof, biol., Earl- Robb, R. C, grad. asst. zool., Dal- Br. 328. Witschi, Mrs. E., asst. to Dr. Witschi, ham (Ind.), protozool. housie, zool. Pollister, A. W., asst. biol., Colum- Univ. Basel, Switzerland. Br. Gelback, Elizabeth L-, asst. biol., Rogers, Edith, Goucher, zool. Br. 314. bia. 127. Goucher, protozool RossmeisI, Elsie C, Smith, zool. asst. prof, phys., Pond, S. E., Penn- Witschi, E., lect. zool., Univ. Basel, Getchell, Donnie C, asst. biol., Colby, Rowell, L. S., instr. zool., Vermont, sylvania Med. Br. 216. (Switzerland). Br. 127. emb. zool. PAGE FIVE

STUDENTS—Cont. Mclnnis, J., collector. Pearse, R. L., collector. 5c)i»'nd, J. L., asst. biol., Yale, zool. Robinson, W., ships carpenter. zooi. Tressler, W. L., collector. Sears, Mary, Radcliffe, zool. I Wamsley, F. W., collector. H. MALCHMAN & BRO. ,Seton, H., Columbia, protozool. H. A. DANIELS Whiielaw, R. N. S., collector. Severingtiaus, A. £., assist, zool., Co- lumbia, protozool. THOMAS MALCHMAN, Shat,:uck, o. £., vVesleyan, zool. BUILDING AND GROUNDS WOODS HOLE Shields, M. L., grad. instr. biol., Hilton, H. A-, supt. buildings and Prop. I'hiUips Academy, zool. grounds. Showers, Edith, Smith, protOZOol. Larkin, T., supt. mechanical dept. Sloane, Kiear.or, Wilson, zool. Phipps, R. E., mechanician. Smith, G. H., instr. bot., Univ. Illi- iHemenway, W., carpenter. Clothiers, Hatters and nois, bot. Bisco, A. H., storekeeper and head St. Jonn, J. H., instr. parasitalogy, janitor. ICE CREAM Army Med. Sch., protozool. Furnishers Taussig, J., liarvara, bot. NATIONAL RESEARCH TeWinkel, Lois E., assist, zool., Bar- nard, protozool. COUNCIL Knox, zool. Cole, chair, div. Thompson, IVl. Helen, L. J., biol. and agr. DRINKS Turnbull, Virginia E., teacher, Dor- Elliot, Edith L., sec. Board Nat. Res. Main St. Falmouth chester H. tj., bot. Fellowships, biol. sciences. Underwood, Katharine, A. B. Vassar, Thome, Louise C, stenographer. zool. Van Cleave, C. D., asst. zool., Chi- BUREAU OF FISHERIES cago, zool. REFRESHMENTS Snyder, Prof. J. O., zool., Stanford, Van Duyne. S. Elizabeth, phys. and room 118, director. teacher, Goucher, emb. Buhrer, Edna (at Fisheries Vordemberge, Anna M., Goucher, M-, Lab. FALMOUTH with Dr. N. A. Cobb), junior nem- bot. 1 atologist, U. S. Dept. Agric, room Walker, Harriet P., Smith, emb. 123-5. RESTAURANT Wails, G. L., Tufts, zool. Open from 8:30 A. M. Bullington, Warbasse, Agnes, Barnard, zool. W. E., prof, biol., Ran- dolph Macon (Virginia), room West, L. S., prof, biol.. Battle Creek, MAIN ST., FALMOUTH 123. Until 11:00 P. M. protozool. Christie, Weston, Dorcas, technician, zool. J. R., assoc. nematologist, U. S. Dept. of Agri., room 123. H. TOYOTA, Mg-r. Willey, C. H., instr. biol., N. Y. Univ., Cobb, N. A., nematologist, of protozool. Dept. Agriculture, room 123. Wolf, Opal M., assist, zool., Wiscon- Conger, P. S., diatomist, asst. to Dr. sin, zool. Chicken, Steak, Chops, Albert Mann, Carnegie Institution, Estate of M. H. WALSH Woods, F. H., instr. zool., Missouri, Washington, D. C, room 123. zool. ROSE SPECIALIST Fish. , , Connolly, C. J., instr. comp. psy.. Wormley, L. C, Dartmouth, zool. Worth, Evelyn W., Penn State, bot. Catholic Univ., Washington, D. C., WOODS HOLE room 123. Chop Suey and Chow Mein Wright, S., fellow zool., Wisconsin, Corder, Margaret N., see. to Dr. Roses Shrubs zool. Cobb, room 123. Wu, C. F., Wisconsin, emb. Crosley, R. W., assisting Dr. S. Perennials Evergreen Zeek, Pearl M., med. stud., Columbia, P. Galtsoff, S. Bur., Fisheries, Open 6:30 A. M. to 11:00 P. M. protozool. U. Planting and Pruning room 123. ADMINISTRATION Drayton, Jessie E., U. S. Bur. Fish- eries, Washington, D. C, sec. to McNaught, F. M., business manager. director, Fisheries Lab., room 118. the business V/ell Fed means a Clear Head. Crowell, Polly L., asst. to Eichorn, A. S., asst. In zool.. Western When Looking for Reliable manager. Reserve, Cleveland, U., storekeep- Can you work with an empty Chambernin, Thelma I., Secretary. er Fisheries Lab., room 131. stomach? Merchandise Try MacNaught, Jeannette, office asst. Fish, C. J., field assist, at large, U. S. Home Cooking Just Like The Home of Bur. Fisheries, room 115. Hart Schaffner Marx Clothing LIBRARY Fish, Mrs. Marie P., field assist, at Mothers & Eat be satisfied at Lamson & Hubbard Hats Montgomery, PrisciUa B., librarian. large, U. S. Bur. Fisheries, room and assistant 115. Printzess Suits, Coats and Montgomery, Hugh, acting Mrs. Harry Handy's Lawrence, Deborah, secretary. Ford, Regina M., assi.st. librarian, U. Dresses Oliphant, Dolores, typist. S. Bur. Fusheries, Washington, WOODS HOLE, MASS. Veader, Marjo<-ie, typist. room 143. Everything in the Way of Sport Galtsoff, Mrs. P. S., technician, assist, Griffin, Charlotte, tile clerk. Clothes to Dr. Galtsoff, of Fisheries, Look, Elizabeth, file clerk. Bur. Woods Hole, Mass., room 122. SAMUEL CAHOON Walk-Over Shoes ROOM Galtsoff, P. S., aquatic biol., U. S. CHEMICAL SUPPLY Satisfaction Guaranteed or Bur. Fisheries, room 122. Wholesale and Retail assuc. prof, neur., Co- Strong, O. S., Goffin, R. A., collector, U. S. Bur. of Money Refunded lumbia, Director. l<'isheries. Woods Hole, room 119. Dealer in asst. chem., Pennsyl- "Wolff, W. A., Gray, I. £., asst. prof, of zool., Tu- vania, Asst. Director. lane, room 123. Fish and Lobsters ASSISTANTS Hall, F. G., prof, of biol., Duke Univ., 'S Ballard, Mary, stud., Mt. Holyoke. room 123. Woods Hole Tel. 660-661 stud., Wellesley. Falmouth :- Mass. Dunlap, Anna C, Heinly, Helen M., (at Fisheries Lab. Falmouth - 329 Haas, Dorothea, stud., Mt. Holyoke. with Dr. N. A. Cohb), junior nem- Hale, J., stud., Oberlin. atologist, U. S. Dept. Agric, room Holbert, Pauline, stud., Elmira. 123-1. Jennings, B., stud., Friends Sch. Hoffses, G. R., supt. U. S. Fisheries (Baltimore). Station, Woods Hole, room 117. THE SEA ROBIN SHEEHAN'S BAKERY Lepkovsky, S., res. worker, Dept. of SUPPLY DEPARTMENT Zool., Wisconsin, room 123. Breakfast, Dinner, Supper Linton, E., parasitologist, Dept. of MAIN STREET Gray, G. M., curator. Zool., Pennsylvania, room 146. Afternoon Tea Veeder, J. J., captain. A., parasitologist, Bal- Lewis, E. M., engineer. MacCallum, G. Fisheries, Leathers, A. W., head, shipping dept. timore, Bureau of Woods Hole, room 144. MRS. CRITTENDON Crowell, Ruth S., secretary. Falmouth Mass. Perkins, E. B., Harvard, room 123. McAfee, Cora L., secretary. Phone: 667-3 at Ballard W. W., collector. Schroeder, W. C, field assist, large, S. Bur. Fisheries, room Conklin, P., fireman. U. 14(1 Crane, S., collector. Fishery Industries, room 140. B Davis, W. A., collector. of B Seiwell, H. R., assist, in zool., asst. Godrich. J., deckhand. Galtsoff, .S. B. F., .Healy, D. C, collector. to Dr. P. S. U room 123. COMPANY Hilton, A. M., collector. W C DAVIS assist, in charge, Div. Hobbs, K. L., collector. Sette, O. E., asst. prof. zool. Idaho, .Jackman, W. L., collector. Stough, H. B., FURNISHERS room 123. HOME Lawrence, L. T., collector. State Lewis, E. M., engineer. Wilson, C. B., prof, of biol.. FALMOUTH MASS Mass., Lillie, W., deckhand. Normal School, Westfield, a Lowney, L., substitute engineer. room 123. PAGE SIX

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(Continued from Page 1) On Monday of the past week If no news be good news, the Many of the scientific studies Prof. Merkle H. Jacobs con- Botany department, to all out- carried on by members of the "how coiTelated with the kind cluded his series of lectures and ward appearances, shows signs Bureau of Fisheries staff at the of class. It is remarkable how handed the class over to Dr. of a long and illustrious career Woods Hole station are parts the complexion of the class Wallace O. Fenn. This first of scientific progress. When of a well organized internation- -changes from year to year. portion of the course had con- interviewed by questioning re- al program of fishery investiga- There seems to be a great sisted of a study of some of the porters, the staff shakes a tions in the western North At- dearth of bachelors in the major physico-chemical effects solemn head,—and that is that. lantic. Mr. Elmer Higgins and course, for, aside from the six obtainable with living material Perhaps there is a possibility 0. E- Sette, two of the U. S. in the class, the others women —notably thermal, osmotic and that a "human interest" story representatives who attended are mostly young married men. ionic. The latter included not is a rare occurrence in so scien- the last meeting of the North Is there any correlation be- only the various relations en- tific and serious (?) a commun- America Committee on Fishery tween this fact and the speed volving H-ion, but also the ef- ity, but we still have hopes. Investigations held at St. Johns, with which the class works? of the common ca- Newfoundland, July 9th fects more If we do lack news, how- and One might ask what has tions. 10th, arrived at Woods Hole ever, we abound in local color, been accomplished by the Pro- Dr. Fenn's interests lying in last Friday. They report that for the life of a botanist is a tozoa hunters. The most biz- field of "muscle," his al- the past year's results and the the rare one. We have been work- arre forms imaginable have lotment of four hours was de- future program considered at ing. (We insist on making this been seen and drawn, in the voted entirely to tracing the this meeting augur well for the very clear!) It may appear to effort to reach the goal of 100. pro and con for continued progress of Canadi- arguments outsiders who are not initiated Worms, diatoms, desnoids, lar- what little is known of the an, Newfoundland, French and into the thallophytic rites and vae of everything contraction American investigations of the metazoa and nature of muscular mysteries that the students of else imaginable, have been recovery. His discussion ichthyology and oceanography and Botany at Woods Hole enjoy drawn and called various forms centered about the chemical of this region. Cod, haddock the swimming and tennis to a of Protozoa. Many new Pro- and energetic relations which and mackerel are the principal degree incompatible with all tazoa, of this type, have un- have been observed to date species of fish being studied the preconceived notions of the doubtedly been located if the verified and unverified. jcrntly by the nations con- life habits of botanical neo- drawings are to be considered On the Saturday .just past, cerned. Mr. Sette who is in phytes. But we do woik ! For valid- Dr. took possession charge of the mackerel investi- MacDougall and Dr. Amberson the past three weeks we Dr. Baker most certainly have of the lecture platform, for a gations in the U. S. will con- have collected, classified and the of the whole series to some of the tin at Woods Hole during the sympathy devoted "chucked-out" a good part of class in the matter of recog- energy relations of living tissue. major portion of the summer. the available and visible marine nizing species for some of the Because of the large number of A conference of investigators flora of these parts. We have drawings turned in. Hats, cats, non-registered attendants at interested in various phases of waded through all the ditches babies' bibs and whatnot all the past lectures, a list of aquatic biology covered at the dogs, and oozzy ponds in the neigh- have all been observed in the those scheduled for the coming station, pursuant to^he call of borhood. We have rowed right microscope, in the form off pro- week will be announced regu- Doctor Albert Mann of the manfully across the harbor to spective protozoa. leads larly in this column. Dr. National Museum. The sev- This Am- Pine Island, and then when the to a notice which should be berson's series follows: eral meetings were well attend- — boats have stuck, climbed out : Saturday, July 17 "Electro- ed and such matters were dis- published Mem.bers of the into the briny deep and pushed biologic cussed as the close and extend- summer colony are hereby Phenomena and Their them back home again- Last not to lose sight of Interpretation. ed cooperation of investigators warned but not least, twice has the their Monday, July 19 who are interested in the or- toy Pekingese dogs on the — Conclu- good ship Cayadetta carried a Jbeach, inasmuch as one near- .sion of Saturday's Topic. ganisms which compose the gallant (if somewhat erratic sighted member of the class Tuesday, July 20—"The Ef- fundamental food supply of looking) crew to far and dis- recently brought one in and fect of Variation in the-Oxygen our marine and inland waters. tant isles. The first long trip it, it Pressure on the Energy Rela- drew thinking was a new was to Pennikese and the sec- species Ciliate. tions of Living Material." (Continued on Page 8) of Also any ond (from which we are just real pets the Wednesday, July 21 "The Protozoan on — recovering) was to Nashawena ticker," concluded his talk grounds should be carefully Mechanism of Oxidation in and Pasque. guarded, for there is danger of Living Tissues." with a discussion of root hair We have already had two 'losing' anj'thing that looks Thursday, July 22 — "Res- psychology, much to the de- seminars on Monday evenings. like a single-celled animal. pii'atory and Calorimetric Re- light of the audience. The first one of the season was lations, with Special Reference This week's seminar will Various methods of taming addressed by Mr. Fogg, who to the Eggs of Marine Forms have the Rev. A. M. Keefe, "the Protozoa seem to have been gave an illustrated lecture on Abundant in this Vicinity." who will speak on "Sargassum, perfected in the laboratory. the "Flora of the Selkirks," Friday, July 23 — "Electric with Notes on the Sargassum .Some lay claim to especially and by Dr. R. Taylor, Fish," with a demonstration. W. who Sea." On July 26, Dr. Fish of well-trained and tamed forms. spoke of his algae Saturday, July 24—"Oxida- —collecting the Fisheries will speak on They can make them hold still, experiences in the region. tion" Potentials. same "Life in the Open Ocean as turn over, wiggle a flagellum, The discussion that followed Regarding the last lecture. Seen from the Arcturus." Both or sit up and take food to dem- dealt largely with the mosquito Dr. Fenn has not yet decided of these meetings will be held onstrate the mouth, all at will. crop in the Great Northwest whether he will accept at Dr. in the old lecture hall, and The favorite method, as ob- and certain culinary triumphs Amberson's hand the honor of from dark rumors that pervade served, seems to be that of composed of flour, baking pow- giving it. this laboratory life, we feel gentle talking to the beasts. If From the writer's personal der and water, greased uP ^ that steamed Myteli and fudge anyone should happen to walk observation, only the little with bacon fat and suc- increase the purely bio- through the laboratory and flipping of a coin could pos- may cessfully only when cooked in logical interest of these occa- note someone talking, appar- sibly help him make up his the great open spaces. sions. ently to himself, they should mind. The second seminar of the No account of the life of a not consider him as a patient During the last week, work in the laboratory season was addressed by Dr. botany student, however, is for a Psychiatrist. He is mere- has been C. H. Farr, who lectured on the complete without a word or ly trying to humor the source transformed from the rountine class "Physiology of Root Hairs." two about our "quizzical" of one of his "100 recognizable —assignment variety of Farr initiated drawings." expierment to somewhat less Dr. us into the staff of instructors. Of late, organized activity. It has con- activities of root hairs when no day is complete without "a sisted of group woi-k on prop- subjected to various mechan- little review—not a test, in any have in We our midst this erties of frog muscle, respira- ical and chemical stimuli, and sense of the word, you under- summer, Mr. E. L. Duffas, tory studies on frog muscle and after showing us a very lengthy stand,—just a diagnosis!" Are prominent author, and writer and voluminous record, famili- we not unique? We certainly marine eggs, etc. ; the energy .for the New York Times. (Continued on Page 8) arly termed the "root hair are! !

PAGE EIGHT EMBRYOS PISCES JELLY FISH TOWN TOPICS (Continued from Page 7) (Continued from Page 2) The work in the course up to Woods Hole, with its little date has covered the develop- the possibility of bringing to ble, just couldn't be placed un- harbors filled with fluttering- ment of the Teleosts, Coelen- the attention of the younger der the grand head of Proto- sails, its verdant hills breathing terates, squid and Crustacea. biologists some of the many zoa. But we certainly had our DUt a welcome fragrance, and Dr. Goodrich gave the lectures problems which are worthy of first real introduction to the its cozy farms reflecting its on the Teleost Embryology, Dr. immediate attention, ways of biological profession when cheery spirit, is a true beauty Plough the Embryology of the gaining the cooperation of es- tourists passing Penzance spot; at this time of the year Coelenterates, Dr. Grave the tablished institutions, and other ponds in which the "inverte- especially, it overflows with. Embryology of the squid and things of mutual interest. As brates" were gleefully dis- liappiness and wide awake Dr. Packard the Embryology of an immediate result of the porting themselves, exclaimed, people. Wide awake people the Crustacea. meetings a committee will be "Hey' James, will you look at who live near together, but Two special lectures have appointed to carefully consider all those crazy people!" But many of whom do not know of fact been given thus far by inves- the situation and report at a the difference lay in the one third the activities sur- just as tigators concerning the work in later date. Visiting delegates that we were laughing rounding them. So this, dear Poor their special fields of research. participated in a collecting trip uproariously at them. reader, will be our aim in the steamer Phalarope. creatures future, to keep tlie dwellers of Dr. Stockard of Cornell Med- on the ignorant Woods Hole in touch with each ical College gave a most inter- Deputy Commissioner Lewis Did you ever see the "rose- other and with the current esting lecture on the effect of Radclift'e and Elmer E. Higgins petaled blossoms" of the Tu- events of the day. We hope the environment on the embry- Chief of the Division of Scien- bellaria lifting in the water La you will co-operate with us. onic period of life. tific Inquiry, have visited the like a miniature garden of on a tour of inspec- But Dr. Young Dr. Clarke of Johns Hopkins institution France roses? now in the fact that also gave a very interesting tion — Investigations informed us of The ladies of the M. E. station, others "perfectly good" talk on the development of the progress at the they were Church will hold their annual the near zoological fam- vascular and lymphatic systems contemplated for member,', of the sale in the ve.stry of the church matters of general preponderous and the differentiation of wan- futui-e, and ily carrying the on Wednesday, July 21, at 3 policy as well, received atten- Coelenterates. And dering cells. Dr. and Mrs. name of p. m. Aprons, fancy articles, delicate, lace- Clarke drew their conclusions tion. again, a most candy and home cooked food egret of feathery white- from observations made on th'5 The qauarium is being con- lake will be on sale. introduce! as tail of a tadpole. .stantly visited by numbers of ness was gravely do they The regular lectures for the people interested in the many Schizotricha. How of Mrs. James J. Marshal of coming week beginning Mon- peculiar fishes and other ani- stand up under the weight that wasn't a cir- Quissett is organizing a couple day, July 19, will be given by mals to be seen there. An un- it all? But thrill we got of teams of women golfers at Dr. Rogers on the Embryology usually large lobster and a cumstance to the the the V\''oods Hole Club. During of the Echinoderus. wreckfish are among the late when Dr. Young found medusa form the summer these teams will Wednesday, July 21, Dr. arrivals. The wi-eckfish, the free-swimming that encounter formidable oppon- Henry Fry will give a special second individual to be caught of Clytia and announced into ents, at the various golf courses lecture on Parthenogenesis. in American waters, is of Eu- this was its first entrance extraction. spent the scientific world. on the Cape and golf enthusi- On Saturday, July 24, Dr. ropean He in the York But we didn't even wait for asts are awaiting the tourna- Charles Fish of the Bui-eau of the winter New like some of a Woods Hole fog to disappear ments witii considerable inter- Fisheries will lecture. He has aquarium and now the before we were frantically try- est. been working on the larvae the rest of us is here for are ing to dislodge some of found daily in the tow. summer. Some seahorses expected soon. Dr. Bennett's Platyhelminthes Miss Helen Burkart, director In the afternoon of the last from our pipettas. Such a of the Seymour School of Mus- day of the study of fish embry- the effect of celebrating hit. time as we had, all but grow- ical Re-education at Washing- ology July 6, the class enjoyed ourselves 21st birthday on Monday. ing triclad intestines ton, D. C, is stopping at the. a trip to the fish traps. The systems Nataie Sidman of Montclair trying to trace out Rowen cottage this summer. Cayadetta was used for the little beasts New Jersey has been visiting when the hungry Miss Burkart is taking pupils. trip. Those who became so in- Cecile Conklin during the past had simply gorged themselves quisitive about the process of week. with a sumptuous repast of the hauling of the traps that they Miss Joan li^ay has returned' Monday evening a beach coal dust. Rather the idea you went close to them in the .skiff from a recent' trip abroad. party was held at Quisset in know of tracing a black thread found the trip a rather moist honor of Sidney Britten's birth- on a black carpet with all the one. We rather think the col- day. electric lights turned off. But Ho-all ve citizens! Come one lecting crew enjoys splashing Tuesday the mail was ex- we found a rather effective —^come all ! Come to the Par- the "bug hunters". At any rate ceedingly heavy but it seemed means of getting around the ish House Wednesday, July 28, the haul was an exceedingly to be all for one person. Glad- difficulties—smash them gent- and enjoy yourself. Home large one for this time of the ys Holmes was the lucky girl ly but firmly presto, the din- cooking, candy, fancy work, year. It was estimated at — receiving innumerable pack- ner gone, and the dinner hand- tea, ice cream, and grab ! The about a half ton. The forms ages, letters and postcards. ling apparatus appears. annual fair of the Church Work collected were mostly scup, This was Gladys' birthday. In If anybody wants to find out Association of the Church of dogfish, puffers and squids. the afternoon a two tabl'. as much about Annulata as the the Messiah. A good time Before returning Capt. Veeder bridge party was held at the invertebrates intend to learn, guaranteed! Don't miss it! gave the class an added treat M. B. L. Club in her honor- we'll say that Dr. Martin is lec- by taking them into Vineyard Sunday, July 18 was Jack turing July 20, 21 and 22, Sound thus prolonging the ride. ANIONS AND SNOITAC Harrington's birthday. It was while Dr. Bissonette follows Last Friday morning the celebrated by another party at that subject with the Bryazoa (Continued from Page class 7) went out on the Nereis to Quis.set. on July 23. collect plankton. Towing was Anna Eggerdink and DonTiie output of muscular tissue on done through the Hole and in Getchell spent Tuesday in New ,Nature records the death of stimulation (using a real feras Hadley Harbour. The plank- Bedford. Professor A. Magnin, formerly thermostat) and a repetition of ton collected proved to be very Mrs. Holcomb has been away professor of botany and director some of Dr. Loeb's experiments rich in Crustacean larvae. for the week end, spending of the Botanic Garden, Univer- on the varying of certain prop- The past week has been a Saturday at New Bedford and sity of Besancon; of Professor erties of gelatine with ph. Sev- very big one for birthdays in Sunday at Provincetown. W. F. Shanks, professor of phy- eral members of the class have the Embryology cla.ss. Red We iiear that Guy Horsley siology in the University of undertaken independent prob- Britten was absent from lab took Lida Brannon to Falmouth Leeds since 1923 and formerly lems; but these have not yet part of the day Tuesday and Saturday morning to have her lecturer in physiology in the matured sufficiently to be cal- believe it we may have beo; hair cut. University of Glasgow. led researches.. : : The Collecting Net VOL. 1. NO. 2 WOODS HOLE, MASS., THURSDAY, JULY 29, 1926. TEN CENTS TOWN TOPICS Laboratory Activities Distinguished Biologists Lifeless Body Found Friday, July 30, 4:30-6:00 P. M. Botany Tea- M. B. L. Club. Off Hedge Fence Friday, July 30, 8:00 P. M. Deliver Lectures Put! Put! Put! Sounded Evening Lecture Auditiirir.m. Open to the public. of the engine of the steady beat "The Properties of Certain Arti- Guard Base 239. as the Coast ficial ]\Iembranes" by Prof. L. Leading Biologists Give Evening she cut through the cahn waters Michaelis, John Hopliins Uni- about one-half mile off Hedge versity. Lectures To Enthusiasiic Saturday, July 31, 9:00-12:00 M. Fence Lightship, southeast of Dance, M. B. L. Club. Audiences Nantucket. Suddenly the trusty Monday, Aug. 2, 8:00 P. M. engine stopped, and the base Botany Seminar drew alongside a dark object Old Lecture Hall. Open to the and floating in the water. The ob- Public. "Mosaic Diseases The twenty-ninth annual series of evening lectures is now Leaf Variegations", by Fanny the ject was hoisted aboard, and Fern Smith. well under way and the members of the laboratory have been surprise. Be- crew drew back in Tuesday, Aug. 3, 8:00 P. M. privileged to hear a number of important communications on fore them lay the limp body of Evening Lecture diverse subjects. In addition to the lectures by Drs. Chambers a man long since dead. Auditorium. Open to the public. ''Absorption of Irons by Orange "It was awful!" said the quar- and Jennings, which have already been reported, talks have and Walnut Seedlings", by Dr. a been given by Drs. Pearl, Coghill, Redfield, Metz, termaster. "I judge he was Howard S. Reed, University of Fenn, man of about forty or forty-five California. Witschi and Patten. Abstracts of these lectures, with the Friday, Aug. 2, 8:00 P. M. years. He was about five foot exception of the last two are given below. ten, and wore a merchant marine Evening Lecture Auditorium. Open to the public. dungarees. He had on light Alcohol and Longevity "Reef Building- and Land Forming NEW ARRIVAL IN brown shoes and gray stockings. Plants", by .Dr. Marshall Howe, STURTEVANT FAMILY The regular series of the even- Two things that I noticed were N. Y. Botanical Garden. ing lectures at the Marine Bio- peculiar. He had a long knife logical Laboratory was opened fastened in his belt, and he had The Collecting Net Dr. and Mrs. A. H. Sturte- on Tuesday, June 29 by Dr. a small hole in the back of his vant announce the arrival of a ^Raymond Pearl who is professor head. This latter might have fine baby boy on Monday. Dr. Robert Chambers was |of biometry and vital statistics been caused by striking some- appointed chairman of the in the School of Hygiene and thing as he fell. We didn't know Public Health. title of Dr. name Committee whose dut^' CLUB DANCE The him, and were unable to locate Pearl's lecture was: "Alcohol was to select a title for our him, so we took him to the Ma- A SUCCESS and Longevity". new publication. Those serv- ri]ie Hospital in the Vineyard. A restudy was made of the ^, , J, , I ing on the committee were a sound of revelry He is still there, and as yet un- There was g^g^^g ^f extreme alcoholism or Dr. Robert Chambers, chair- by night Beneath the mystic identified." n^o^jerate drinking as compared man, Drs. Clark, Dawon, Ed light of Japanese lanterns were, ^,ith total abstinance in man. Bed- wards, Fry, Harvey, Knower, Judge Walsh from New gathered the beauty and the To eliminate usual probability ford is visiting his relatives on Lancefield, Lewis, Packard, chivalry of forty-two states and of errors in conclusions on this the M. H. Walsh estate of Woods Mavor, Pantin and Speidel. three foreign countries. From subject which are too gener- Hole. The- committee, after due the confines of the sedate old M. ally largely assumption on inade- consideration, decided upon L. Club issued forth the allur- B. quately tested data; the cases Woods Hole fire apparatus "The Collecting Net" for the ing strains of music; the mourn- were selected with special care was called out last week to aid permanent name of the new ful of the saxophone, the note and the records made and check- Falmouth in extinguishing a weekly. It recommends, also, dreamy tones of the violin, the ed up by experienced students. stubborn fire in 'the town dump that the entire list of names be tmg-a-hng Of the spritely banjo, Ij^^^jjy ^^^.,,^3 ^^^^ t^^bjes wer. at Gifi'ord and Jones street. printed in the forthcoming is- the beat of the stacatto drum, '^Y^^wn illustrating the various sue of "The Collecting Net" tc the sustaining rumble of the and problems involved, proving as afi'ord entertainment to its all fairness piano. In Aye ask .^e author's conclusion that mo- readers and to indicate the dif- you: speak of Paul Currents in Hole why White- i^g^.g^e indulgence gives a more ficulties which confronted the oi- Vincent Lopez man when we ^^^^,^ ^^^,^^^ ^^^.^^ ^han either committee. this excellent aggregation This week the current in the have ^ drinking or total abstin- Hole seems to run from Buz- Miss Sarah Dunlap submit- of native talent m our very ance. zards Bay to Vineyard Sound ted the winning name and she midst? Growth of Nerve Cells according to the following will shortly receive the $5.00 We doubt if there is anyone schedule prize. The second choice of in Woods Hole who does not Professor G. E. Coghill of the July 28 7:59 P.M. the committee was "Lab Lines" know what we are trying in our Wistar Institute of Anatomy and " 29 8:56 " which was submitted by feeble way to describe. But, lest Biology, on Friday evening, " 30 9:52 " there should be some poor soul July 2, delivered a lecture on " 31 10:56 " The entire list of names sub- who was out of town that night, "The Early Development of Be- Aug. 1 11:50 " mitted follows: M. B. L. En- let us say forthwith that we re- havior and Related Nervous " 2. .. .12:09 A.M. lightener, Heterozoids, Trial fer to the dance given by the Structures in Amblytoma." Dr. " 3 1:06 " and Error, Missing Links, M. B. L. Club for its members Coghill summed up in finished " 4...;. 1:59 " Amphioxious, M. B. L. Catal- at the club house on Saturday form the main results of his " 5 2:48 " yst, Puffers Digest, M. B. L. evening, July 24th. work of the last twelve years, In each case approximately Dope Sheet, aMoeBaLette, Col- Promptly at nine o'clock, the published in the Journal of Com- six hours later it reverses itself lecting Net, Biolog, Bio-Hop- music by an excellent orch'jstra parative Neurology and other and runs from the sound to the per, M. B. L. Seine, Embryeller, of five pieces began. At first, papers. His clear diagrams and bay. There is a period of about W. H. Indicator, Hole Thing. only a half dozen cor.ples took demonstrations of relationships 15 minutes when the surface water appears to be stationary. (Continued on Page 8) (Continued onPage 8) (Continued on Page 7) .

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ing would have materially helped limit, since there was no more This will be set back on the The Collecting Net another. land to be had for either town grass and will have three stories Issued under the auspices of An hour spent in the labora- resident or laboratory worker. and a good basement. At first of scientific worker The very life of the laboratory about three-quarters of the The M. B. L. Club tory another could probably be spent in no seemed threatened when the whole will be built in form of an better way. Mutual discussions "beach lots" were opened up, to angle with the angle opening Club Oflficers of the problems mt by the in- be added to the already growing southward toward Center street. D. J. Edwards Pres. dividual workers is most produc- "Crow Hill" section. Later came Later another wing will join the C. C. Speidel Vice-Pres. tive in the formation of new the Gansett property, and finally east end of the angle. M. Sampson Sec.-Treas. ideas. the new undeveloped tract for The plans of the apartment Florence Tinkham.C/iai'r. House Com. The proposal to initiate at the further building. house show twelve very attrac- Marion Rea Chair. Social Com. beginning of the next season a This seemed to provide amply tive family suites, each with liv- system whereby this can be ac- for the future growth of the ing room, kitchen, and bath; complished deserves the hearty settled part of the community, half of these with two bedrooms Editorial Staff support of every one interested annually returning to the labora- and half with one. In addition Ware Cattell Managing Editor in the progress of scientific re- tory as their summer home. But there are two suites with two Helen H. Cattell, L. B. Clark, Anna search. The general plan will be Woods Hole residents had connecting bedrooms and private C. Dunlap, Associate Editors. to have the different investiga- reached the limit of their powers bath between on each floor; Contributing Editors tors volunteer to devote one day to accommodate the additional while along the hall there is a Margaret Speidel. /)n'es(i(/afor News during the season to showing increasingly large number of row of eight to ten single bed

Helen I. Morris Algae other investigators the work laboratory workers who come rooms with a bath in common at C. H. Willey Aozotorp that is being carried out in their only for a season or two, and the end of the hall.

F. I. Hollander Our Bacia respective laboratory. These who do not yet wish to take on On the first floor there is a Cecile Conklin Embryos volunteers will profit: the responsibilities of regular lai'ge living room for common the privilege of residents. Since many of us use by those not provided A. S. Eichorn . . .fiio-fOH of Fisheries (1) By with Eleanor Sloane .Proifoelhelmathcoida learning about other work and residents must have bathrooms, a private one. The basement Helen Jennings To^vn Topics visiting other laboratories. electric lights, automobiles, etc., also contains trunk rooms, store (2) By reducing the number rents and room rates for the rooms, and a laundry and of interruptions resulting from transient summer visitor are apt kitchen for common use. There Cooperation in Research persons droping into their lab- to climb. Hence many who have is also a furnace by which the oratories to learn of their work desired to come for a season or building can be heated for any Our civilization has pro- while they are in the midst of so, have found rates and open- wishing to stay in cold weather; gressed rapidly since man first carrying out an important series ings prohibitive. The situation a very important provision. learned that cooperation and or- of experiments. has led to the building of dorm- There is a full equipment of elec- ganization were essential to his (3) By the satisfaction of itories for this class of worker. tric lights, running water, advancement—nay, even to his realizing that they are doing The laboratory developed screens, and necessary furniture. existence. Likewise cooperation their utmost to promote scienti- dormitories some time ago from It is expected also to maintain in research and scientific pro- fic research. dwellings which came into its family suites in the Hubbard gress go hand in hand. The field hands, and postponed the time House, as at present. Rates are of science has been split up into The cost for the printing and of effectually meeting this need not yet fixed but will be far be- components so diversified and the paper alone in our last issue until the last minute. These low anything now asked. specialized that one person alone amounted to S83.75. We sold dormitories have grown to sur- The other brick building, the longer comprehend one no can about 380 copies of our weekly prising proportions for both new dormitory, will likewise be of its major divisions. Yet fund- at 10c each and we carried ad- single men and women and for three stories and a basement and amentally they are inter-related, vertising material to the extent families; but still there is a will stand on the Drew lawn, in hence for intelligent research iof about S30.00. We thus find steady demand for really ade- front of the Drew House. It close is essential. cooperation ' ourselves somewhat better off quate quarters for the very type will face the Eel Pond on the Some workers are reticent financially than we had predict- of young investigators not yet corner of East and North about letting others know just ed. We cannot hope to increase established who would be greatly streets. what they are doing or they It is planned for 100 students, how our income greatly by an in- benefitted here and who could I are doing it. This attitude is to creased number of readers for help so materially in developing one wing to hold 50 women, tKe be condemned, exceirt perhaps other 50 men. The basement they are limited ; but we can look the laboratory's work. holds storerooms, on rare occasions in the field of forward to devoting a little more It is for this still unsatisfied boilerroom, medicine and surgery. This is space to advertisements. Every need, so important to the very etc. The first floor has a large not in the interest of science, member of the laboratory should life of the enterprise represented social room, placed centrally and even though in some cases it may make a special point of patroniz- by the Marine Biological Labora- openmg into a patio with garden be better for the ego. A captain ing those stores which insert an- Itory, that the newly announced To each side of this central ar- in the war who leads his men to rangement are six or seven bed nouncements in our columns. ! brick dormitories and apart- rooms, battle for his own glory is not a They are contributing to out ments are to be built. These each with two beds, and good soldier. He must coordin- support, and it is our duty to buildings will provide quarters running water, while nearby is ate his activities with those of reciprocate. at low rates for many not placed a large wash room with toilets, the others for the good of the in the present dormitories, some showers, etc. Each of the other whole. two floors are similarly arranged Those who helped in preparing of which will still be used. for 37 students; one-half for A research vvorker is support- the directory and whose names Eight houses, including the men, the other for women. Cer- ed almost without exception are not on the editorial staff are homestead and the old brick tainly there is nothing left to be directly or indirectly by charity, S. Wright, Walburger A. Peter- building, now serve as dormitor- desired here. The bathrooms although in the end the commun- son, and Margaret Sumwalt. We ies and belong to the laboratory. ity reaps dividends far in excess are and large social room can be grateful for their assistance. The Dexter House has been a of its contributions. People heated. In addition to all this, favorite dormitory for families should not be taxed, and benevo- it is planned to put several beds LIVING ACCOMMODATIONS and some single students ever lent persons should not donate in each of the rooms of the Drew since it ceased to be a hotel money, that one group of in- FOR LABORATORY House to care for 35 or 40 where some of us boarded. Its dividuals may be glorified at the WORKERS younger men; and similarly to use will now be discontinued. expense of others and to the fix up the Kidder House or the . The Ritter House, with family \ (Continued from last week) Whitman House for 35 or 40 detriment of scientific progress. suites always in demand, on the girls; Investigators at our own lab- This ever increasing demand corner of West and Center H. McE. K. oratory are not sufficiently ac- and insistence of invading sum- streets, opposite the old lecture quainted with the problems and mer laboratory workers and hall, will now be taken down. Who sa?d Woods Hole wasn't methods of their co-workers for friendt; who came along soon The Whitman House nearby, a, popular place? In the past the greatest productiveness in created i' new situation in the now the Women's dormitory, on week there have been more their research. It turns out that little town. Rooms were scarce, the next lot, will be moved. So yachts in the harbor of Woods in countless cases the knowledge available hou es fewer, and rates there will be ample room for the Hole than there have been since of what one investigator was do- went up unti' the s'Ky was the new brick apartment house. the war. . ,

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Abbreviations Amberson, W. R., asst. prof, phys., Cattell, M., instr. phys., Cornell Med. Grant, C. W., instr. bact., Battle Botany Building Bot. Pennsylvania. Br. 214. Creek. Br. 111. Brick Building Br. Fenn, W. O., prof, phys., Rochester. Chambers, R., prof, anat., Cornell Grant, Jean F., instr. St. Mary's Sch. Lecture Hall L. Knowlton, F. P., prof, phys., Syra- Med. Br. 328. (N. C). Bot. 3. Old Main BuildinR- 0. M. cuse. Chen, T. Y., grad. stud, protozool., Grant, Madeleine P., asst. prof, zool., Columbia. Rockefeller Buiiciing Rock. Hartline, H. K., asst. in Woods Hole Br. 314. Mt. Holyoke. 0. M. 32. Chidesler, F. E., prof, zool.. West Grave, The abbreviations used for the course. B. H., prof, zool., Wabash Virginia. Br. 344. (Ind.). Br. 234. positions and institutions are the BOTANY Choate, Dorothy, stud, zool., Penn- Grave, C, prof, zool., same as those incorporated in Washington I. Investigation sylvania. Br. 217. (St. Louis). Br. "American Men of Science." Thus, 226. Christie, J. R., assoc. neniatologist, Guthrie, Mary J., asst. taking Dr. Amberson as an example, Dugger, B. M., prof, plant phys.. prof, zool., U. .S. Dept. Agr. Rock. East. Missouri. Br. 336. his position during the regular col- Washing-ton (St. Louis). Clark, Mrs. E. L., grad. stud, anat., Hague, Florence, asst. prof, phys., lege year is assistant professor of Allen, C. E., prof, bot., Wisconsin Pennsylvania Med. Br. 311. Oregon .'.gr. Rock. physiology at the University of Penn- (absent) North. Clark, E. R., prof, anat., Pennsylvan- Hancs, F. T., assoc, sylvania. His work at the laboratory Brooks, S. C, Dept. Public HeaUh, Rockefeller ia, Med. Br. 311. Institute. Br. 208. is carried out in the Brick Building Washington, D. C. Clark, L. B., grad. stud, zool., Hop- Hartline, I^. K., grad. stud, phys., Robbins, W. J., prof, bot., in Room 309. Missouri. kins. Br. 315. Hopkins (absent) Lied. Br. 229. Cobb, N. A., agr. technologist., U. S. Harnly, Mar'e L., lab. assist, to Dr. Schramm, J. R., Editor-in-Ohief Dept. Agr. Rock. East. Morgan, Columbia. THE STAFF Biological Abstracts, Pennsylvania. Br. 321. Cole, E. C, asst. prof, biol., Williams. Harnly, M. ll., grad. stud, Lillie, F. R., Director, prof, emb., (absent) zool., 0. M. 24. Columbia. Br. 314. chair, dept. zool., Chicago. II. Instruction Cole, L. J., prof, genetics, Wiscon- Harvey, E. N., prof, phys., Jacobs, M. H., Associate Director, Princeton. Lewis, I. F., prof, biol., Virginia. sin. Br. 118. Br. 116. prof. gen. phys., Pennsylvania. Collett, Mary S., assoc. ZOOLOGY Hazen, T. E., asst. prof, bot., Bar- prof, phys.. Hayden, Margaret A., asst. prof. nard. Western Reserve. 0. M. 4. zool., Wellesley. O. M. 5. L Investigation Taylor, W. R., asst. prof, bot., Penn- Coolidge, T., grad. stud, biochem. Haynes, Rachel, histologist, Com- Calkins, G. N., prof, protozool., Co- sylvania. Harvard Med. Br. 107. mis.soon Stand. Biol. Stains. O. M. lumbia. Copeland, M. prof, biol., Bowdoin. Base. Conklin, E. G., prof, zool., Prince- Br. 334. Haywood, Charlotte,, grad, stud. ton (absent). INVESTIGATORS Covell, W. P., asst. anat.. Rockefeller zool., Pennsylvania. Rock. West. Grave, C, prof, zool., Washington Inst. Br. 209B. Hazen, T. E., asst. prof, bot., Amberson, W. R., asst. prof, phys., Colum- (St. Louis). Ccwdry, E. V., assoc. memb.. Rocke- bia. Bot. 24. Pennsylvania, Br. 309. Jennings, H. S., prof, zool., Hopkins. feller Institute. Br. 209B. Heilbrunn, L. V., asst. prof, Anderson, Pearl, inst. zool., Mary- zool., Lillie, F. R., prof, of emb., Chicago. Craighill, 'Caroline. Br. 223. Michigan. Br. land. 0. M. Base. 330. McCIung, C. E., prof, zool., Penns- Cuajunco, F., instr. anat., Univ. Hemmeter, J. C, prof. clin. Armstrong, P., instr. anat., Cornell med., sylvania. Philippines. Br. 111. Maryland. L. Med. Br. 318. 33. Mast, S. O., prof, zool., Hopkins. Curtis, W. C, prof, zool., Missouri. Hess, Olga T., grad, stud., Brown. Avery, Mrs. M. S., bacteriologist. Morgan, T. iH., prof. expt. zool., Co- L. 28. 0. M. Base. Am. Univ. Beirut, Syria. Br. 111. lumbia. Darby, H. H., instr. biol., N. Y. Hess, Walter N., prof, zool., Avery, B. F., prof, anat., Am. Univ. De Parker, G. H., prof, zool.. Harvard, Univ. Br. 342. Pauw. Br. Beirut, Syria. Br. 111. (absent). Dawson, J. A., instr. zool.. Harvard Hickman, Jane F., grad. stud. I'.ool., Arvo, Impi, res. asst. zool.. Union. E. prof. zool. , 0. 29. Missouri. Br. Wilson, B., Columbia. Br. 343. M. 217. DeForest, D. M., instr. biol., Union. Hinricks, Marie A., Nat. Res. fellow, II. Instruction Arzberger, E. G., plant path. Dept. Br. 343. Chicago. Br. 335. Dawson, J. A., instr. zool.. Harvard. of Ag'ric. Washing-ton, D. C. DeGraff, A. C, instr. phys., N. Y. Hisaw, F. L., asst. prof, zool., V/is- Martin, E. A., asst. prof, zool.. Col. Baker, H. N., . gi'ad. stud, zool., Univ. Med. Br. 110. eonsin. L. 26. City. N. Y. Hopkins. O. M. Base. Donaldson, H. H., prof. neur. Wistar, Hogben, L., assoc. prof, zool., Mc- Ccle, E. asst. prof, zool., Williams Baker, W. B., assoc. prof, biol., C, Inst., Br. 117. Gill. Br. 213. Bennitt, R. instr. biol.. Tufts. Emory. 0. M. 21. Dolley, W. L., Jr., prof, biol., Buffalo. Holt, L. E., assoc. in pedratrics, Hop- Bissonnette, T. H., prof. bioL, Earth, L. G., grad. asst. biol., Michi- Br. 339. kins Hosp. L. 29. Trinity. gan. Br. 217. Downing, R. C, asst. zool., Wabash. Hoskins, Mrs. M. M., asst. prof. anat. Grant, Madeleine P., asst. prof, zool.. Baskerville, Margaret, asSt. prof, Br. 234. N. Y. Univ. Col. Dent. Mount Holyoke. phys., geo. med. Br. 305. Duggar, B. M., prof, plant phys., Hcwland, Ruth B., asst. prof, biol., Willier, B. H., asst. prof, zool., Bennitt, .R., instr. bioL, Tufts. 0. Washington (St. Louis). Br. 122A. N. Y. Univ. Br. 315. Chicago. M. 25. Edwards, D. J., assoc, prof, phys., Hughes, T. P., Ass't. Rockerfeller Young, D. B., assoc. prof, biol., Benson, Gertrude C, grad. stud, Cornell Med. Br. Institute. Arizona. zool., Michigan. Br. 217. 214. Ellsworth, R. M., asst. physician, Hulpieu, H. R., grad. stud, zool., McClulIen, Helen, lab. asst. in Bergner, A. Dorothy, grad. stud, Hopkins Hosp. Br. 302. Hopkins. Br. 312. Woods Hole course. zool., Columbia. Br. 314. Humphreys, G. H., grad. stud. bio. Bigelow, R. P., prof, zool., Mass., Fales, Doris E., grad. asst. zool., chem.. Harvard Med. Br. 108. PROTOZOOLOGY Inst. Tech. Br. 340. We.'rtern Reserve. Rock. North. Inman, O. L., prof, biol., Antioch. 1. Investigation Bissonette, T. H., prof, biol., Trinity. Farr, C. H., assoc. prof. Bot. Br. 114. See Zoology O. M. 31. Washington (St. Louis). O. M. Irwin, Marion, assoc. phys.. Rockefel- Blumenthal, R. grad. stud, phys., Base. II. Instruction ler Institute. Br. 207. Pennsylvania. Br. 217. Fenn, W. O., prof, phys., Rochester Calkins, G. N., prof, protozool., Co- Jacobs, H., prof. gen. Bodansky, O., res. asst. chem. Colum- Med. Br. 313. M. phys., Penn- lumbia. bia. Br. 122C. Fogg, J. M., Jr., inst. bot., Pennsyl- sylvania. Br. 102. Baker, W. B., assoc. prof, biol., Jennings, prof, zool., Bodine, J. H., asst. prof, zool., Penn- vania. Bot. 22. H. S., Hopkins. Emory. sylvania. Br. 220. Fogg, L. C, grad. stud, zool, Colum- Br. 304. MacDougall, Mary S., prof. ZOol., Johnson, Helen R., asst. biol., Brown. Bowen, Edith S., instr. zool.. Hood bia. Br. 314. Agnes Scott. (Maryland). Rock. North. Folger, H. T-, instr. zool., Michigan. Br. 233. Johnson, H. instr. biol., Col. City EMBRYOLOGY Bowen, R. H., asst. prof, zool., L. 32. H., Columbia. Br. 327. Fry, H. J., asst. prof, emb., N .Y. N. Y. 0. M. Base. I. Investigation Just, Bowling, Rachel., stud, biol., C'olum Univ. 0. M. Base. E. E.,. prof, zool., Howard. See Zoology bia. Br. 331. Gabritschevsky, E., as'st. genetics, Br. 228. Kahn, M. C, instr. hygiene, Cornell II. Instruction Bowman, P. W., instr. bot., George Univ. Moscow, Russia. Br. 332. Med. Br. 121. Goodrich, H. B., prof, biol., Wesleyan. Washington. Bot. 22. Gardner, Mary S., grad. stud, biol., Kapp, Eleanor M., grad. stud, phys., Grave, B. H., prof, biol., Wabash. Breifenbacher, lect. zool. McGUl. Br. Bryn Mawi-. Br. 315. Pennsylvania. Rock. West. Packard, C, assoc, Inst. Cancer Res., 306. Gates, F. L., assoc. memb. Rockefeller Karns, Hilda E. teach, biol., Jr. High Columbia. Bridges, C. B., res. asst., Carnegie Institute. Br. 209A. Sch. (N. J.) Br. 122. D. Plough, H. H., prof, biol., Amherst. Inst. Br. 332. Gates, G. E., head biol. dept., Judson Keefe, A. M., prof, biol., St. Nor- Rogers, C. G., prof. comp. phys.. Brieger, F. G., Rockfeller. res. fel- Col., Burma. Br. 217. 'beck's (Wis.). Bot. 5. Oberlin. low. Bussey Inst, Bot. 6. Genther, Ida T., asst. instr. phys., H. McE., prof, anat., Ala- Brooks, S. B., biologist. Hygienic Wisconsin. Br. 122C. Knower PHYSIOLOGY Br. 115. Lab., Washington, D. C. Bot. 4. Glaser, O. C, prof, biol., Amherst. bama. F. P., prof, phy.3., Syra- 1. Investigation Brooks, Mrs. M. M., assoc. biol., Br. 204. Knowlton, Br. 106. Bradley, H. C, prof. phys. chem., Hygenic Lab., Washington, D. C. Glusker, D., grad. stud. phys. Penn- cuse Med. Koehring, Vera, instr. zool.. Smith. Wisconsin (absent). Bot. 4. sylvania Med. Br. 309. Br. 217. Carrey, W. E., prof, phys., Vander- Brown, D. E. S., instr. phys., N. Y. Goldfarb, A. J., prof, biol.. Col. City chief Dept. bilt Med. (absent). Univ. Br. 342. N. Y. L. 34. Kuhn, Lieut. Harry A., Toxicology, Chem. Warfare Ser- Lillie, R. S., prof. gen. phys., Chicago Byerly, T. C, prof, zool., Iowa State Goodrich, H. B., pra(f. biol., Wes- vice, Arsenal. Br. 217. Mathews, A. P., prof, biochem., Cin- L. 23. leyan. Br. 210. Edgewood asst. prof, zool., cinnati. Calkins, G. N., prof, protozool., Col- Gordon, Isabella, Res. Worker, Im- Lancefield, D. E., Columbia. Br. 1. II. Instruction umbia. Br. 331. perial College, London. Lancefield, Rebecca C, asst., Hosp. Jacobs, M. H., prof. gen. phys., Penn- Cattell, W., res fellow biol., Memorial Grand, C, asst. anat., Cornell Med. Rockefeller Institute. Br. 206. sylvania. Hosp., N. Y. Br. 123. Br. 328. PAGE FOUR THE COLLECTING NET

Wilbur, Lois, instr. phys., Pennsyl- East, Elizabeth W., Wellesley, zooL Plunkett, C. R., instr. phys., N. Y. INVESTIGATORS—Cont. vania. Br. 217. Eggerdink, Anna G., Hunter, emb. Univ. Br. 1. Pennsylvania, Landis, E. M., grad. stud. Ijhys., Wilnelm, J. F., Jr., asst. zool., Wa- Else, F. L., instr. zool., Pollack. H. med. stud., Cornell Med. Pennsylvania. Br. SCl'. bash (Ind). Br. 234. emb. Br. 328. Res. fellow neur Esaki, S., asst. prof, zool., Chicago, Lewis, I. F., prof, bid., Virginia. Williams, R. G., Nat. Pollister, A. W., asst. biol., Colum- Bot. 26. Pennsylvania. Br. 311. emb. bia. Br. 314. asst. prof, zool., Farr, Marion M., asst. zool., Vassar, Lillie, F. R., prof. Z30l., Chicago. Willier, B. H., S. E., asst. prof, phys., Penn- zool. Br. 101. Pond, Chicago. U. M. 27. sylvania Med. Br. 216. prof, zool., Columbia. Field, Madeline E., asst. phys., Mt. Lillie, R. S., prof, phys., Chicago. Wilson, E. B., Popa, G. T., chief assr. emb., Buka- holyiike, phys. Br. 326. Br. 322. re.st (Roumania). Br. 225. asst. prof, biol., Gaffney, Catherine A., Hunter, bot. Loeb, L., prof, path., Wash. Univ. Wilson, J. W. insti-. zool., Iowa State. Gardiner, Mary R.. asst. prof, biol., Med. Br. 122C. Potter, G. E., Brown. Br. 329. to Dr. Witschi, Earlham (Ind.), protozool. Long, Margaret E., grud. stud, zool., L. 23. Witschi, Mrs. E., asst. Br. Gelback, Elizabeth asst. biol., Pennsylvania. Br. 217. Rand, H. W., assoc. prof, zool.. Har- Univ. Basel, Switzerland. L., Goucher, protozool Loucks M. M-, fellow phys., Minneso- vard. L. 30. 127. lect. zool., Univ. Basel, Getchell, Donnie C, asst. biol., Colby, ta. Br. 110. Ratcliffe, F. N., grad. stud, biol., Witschi, E-, emb. Lucas, A. M., instr. zool., Washing- Princeton. Br. 110. (Switzerland). Br. 127. grad. stud. chem. Goebul, W. F., asst. chem.. Rock. ton (St. Louis). Br. 111. Redfield, A. C, asst. prof, phys., Wolff. W. A., Br. 8. Inst., phys. Lucke, B., asst. prof, path., Penn- Harvard Med. Br. 107. Pennsylvania. protozool Yale. Gordan, Isabella, res. worker. Imper- sylvania. Br. 310. Redfield, Helen., xNat. Res. fellow, Woodrutf, L. L., prof, ial College, London. Lynch, Ruth S., instr. zool., Hopkins. Columbia. Br. 314. Br. 323. Alvalyn £., asSOC. prof, Griffin, Grace, Columbia, bot. Br. 304. Reznikoff, 'P., assoc. anat. instr. med., Woodward, 24. Hansen, I. B., Wesleyan, emb. Lyons, C, stud. zool., Alabama. Br. Cornell Med. Br. 328. phys., Maine. L. Young, D. B., prof, biol., Arizona. Hahnert, W. F., De Pauw, zool. -!' Rogers, C. G., prof, phys., Oberlin. grad.., 0. 33. Hardesty, Mary, Newcomb, zool. Manwell, Reginald D., senior Br. 218. M. Averill A., asst. bio- Harrington, J. T., Dalhousie, emb. asst., Amherst. Rowlee, Silence, instr. bot., Welles- Zimmerman, Reserve. Br. 314. Herman, Myra, grad. stud., Columbia, McClung, C. E., prof, zool., Pennsyl- physics, West. ley. Bot. 1. emb. vania. Br. 219. Salant, W., prof, phys., pharm., Herskowitz, I. A., Columbia, zool. McCutcheon, M. asst. prof, path., Georgia Med. STUDENTS Hess, W. N., prof, zool., De Pauw, Pennsylvania. Br. 310. Schevring, Ludwig, Int. Ed. Board The abbreviations used are the prof, biol., phys. MacDougall, Mary S., Fellow (Munich, Germany) (ar- 5ame as m the list of Investigators. 22. Hewes. Edna M., grad. stud. Roches- Agnes Scott. 0. M. riving the first week of Aug.) In the case of Miss Arnold the in- instr. ZOol., ter, zool. McMullen, Eleanor C, asst. zool., Columbia. is an un- Schultz, J., formation given is that she Hewitt, Dorothy C, Mt. Holyoke, Cornell. L. 31. Br. 314. dergraduate student at Wellesley tchr. Rockfeller zool. McNamara, Helen, Schrader, F., assoc. prof, biol., Bryn that she is taking the College and Hinchey, Mary C, instr. zool., Institute. Br. 207. laboratory. Mawr. Br. 125. course in botany at the HoUins (Virginia), emb. A., asst. prof, zool.. Col. Martin, E. Schrader, Mrs. I. H., instr. biol., Bryn If the person in question has a posi- 2. Hitchcook, D. I., assoc, Rock. Inst., City N. Y. 0. M. Mawr. Br. 125. tion other than that of an under- zool., Hopkins. phys. Mast, S. O., prof, Schwartzbach, S., med. stud. Mary- it is so indicated. graduate student Holcomb, Mrs. Daisy Y., instr. zool., Br. 312. land. Br. 122B. Dorothy E., Wellesley, Bot. stud, biol., Maine. Arnold, Arkansas, emb. Matthews, Annette, Scott, J. P., photographer, Science Avery, B. F., prof, anat., .A.m. Univ. Hollander, F.. Nat. Res. fellow, med., L. 24. Service. 0. M. 6. Union. Beirut, Syria, Zool. Yale, Phys. Mavor, J. W-, prof, bid.. grad. stud. phys. Penn- Scott, W. J., Beale, Alice, Radcliffe, Zool. Holmes, Gladys E., Brown, emb. Br. 343. sylvania. 0. M. 7. , ,, Bean, R. C, teach, biol.. Girls' H. S., Holmes, M. Thelma, instr., biol, Syra- Means, J. H., prof. clin. med.. Har- stud, emb., Shearer, E. M., grad. Boston. Zool. phys. vard Med. Br. 110. cuse, Princeton. Br. 110. Zoo'.. Beaver, P. C, \Va:)ao:i, Holton,^ W., staff memb. Cair.egie Ruth G.,__ protozool. Metz C. Smith, D. C., res. worker, Harvard Mt. Kolyoke, Harbor. Br. 222. Bonner, Miriam C, ' Ho^sley . G. W. VTrginia. emb. Inst. Cold Spring Med. Br. 217. leet. med., Emb Hummel, Katharine P., zool. Michaelis, L., resident F., res. asst. plant Smith, Fanny Bing, F. C., Pennsylvania, Phys. Hunt, T. E., Jr., Chicago, zool. Hopkins. Br. 319. (St. Louis) phys., Washington Borden, Mabel A., Dalhousie, (Can.) Hurlbutt, Ellen L., instr. zool., Miller, H. M. asst. to C. Grave. Br. Con- Br. 122A. Bot. necticut, zool. 226. res. asst. phys., Penn- Smith, W. A., Boyd, Marjorie. instr. phys., Mt. Irwin, Marion S., instr. zool.. Carle- Mitchell, W. H. Jr., grad. stud, proto- svlvania. Br. 205. Holyoke. Phys. ton, zool. zool.. Harvard. Br. 217. zool., Son'neborn, M. .T, grad. stud, instr. biol., assoc. prof, phys., Brannon, Lida C., Dana Jeffers, Katharine R., Missouri, zool, Mitchell, P. H., Hopkins. Br. 303. 233. Hall, (Mass.) Emb. Kellicott, Janet, Barnard, emb. Brown. Br. Spaulding, Janet, res. asst. anat., zool., Co- Britten, S. A., Hamilton, Emb. Kinney, Elizabeth T., grad. asst., Morgan, T. H., prof. exp. 317. Cornell Med. Br. Brown. Helen J., instr, St. Mary of Washington (St. Louis), phys. lumbia. Br. 320. anat., Speidel, C. C, assoc. prof, Vir- Springs (Ohio) Bot. Klinger, Carol, bot. Morrill, C. v., asst. prof, anat., Cor- Wabash, ginia. 0. M. 28. Katherine, teach. bioL, 27. Buehler, Kuniz, M., assoc. Rockefeller Insti- nell Med. L. zool., Kaiser Stern, C., res. fellow Albany H. S., Bot. tute, Rock. North. Morrison, Mary E., grad. stud, phys., Wilhelm Inst. Br. 333. deM., asst. phys., S. Pennsylvania. Rock. North. Campos, F. A. Lev/is, Sara I., instr. bot.. Northwests Stockard, C. R., prof, anat., Cornell Paulo Medical Sch. (Brazil) Emb. ern, bot. Morse, S., assoc. biophysics, Cleve- Med. Br. 317. Canavan, W. P., instr. zool., Penn- Liu. C. L., Cornell, protozool. land Clinic. Br. 341. neur., Strong, O. S., assoc prof, sylvania, Protozool. L.. Huping Moses, Mildred, res. ass't. Carnegie Lu, H. Christian (China), Columbia. Br. 8. Carpenter, Esther, asst. zoo!., Wis- emb. Inst. Br. 223. Sumwalt, Margaret, grad. stud, phys., consin, pjiiib. Nachtsheim, H., fellow Int. Ed. Maclean, Bernice L., asst. zool., Mt. Pennsylvania. Rock. West. Chase, A. M., Amherst, Zool. Board. Br. 333. Holyoke, zool. Svenson, H. K., asst. prof, biol., Chen, H. K., grad. stud., Illinois, McCoy, O. R., grad. asst. zool., Wash- Nadler, J. E., instr. phys., Georgia Union. Bot. 2. Emb. ingLon (St. Louis), zool. Med. Br. 110. Pennsyl- Taylor, 1. R., instr. phys., Chen, T. Y., grad. stud., Columbia, McGaun, R. C., Jr., Nassonov, D., asst. zool., Leningrad Amherst, zool. vania. Br. 217. Protozool. (Russia). 0. M. 3. MacKay, Mary E., asst. zool., Dal- R.. asst. prof. bot., Penn- Taylor, W. ] ciark, Elizabeth B., Radcliffe, Bot. Imusie (Can.), phys. Nomura, S., asst. prof, phys., Im- ylvania. Bot. 25. Clarke, G. L., Harvard, Zool. perial Univ. Japan. McKlnney, Mary A., asst. prof, biol., Thomas, Francisca K., Secretary to Cline, Elsie, Hopkins, Bot, Austin State Teach., protozool. Nonidez, J. F., assoc. anat. Cornell Dr. Means, Mass. General Hosp., Climenko, D. R., Dartmouth, Med. L. 22. Emb. McMullen, D. B., grad. asst. zool., Boston. Connard, Mary H., Vassar, Oliphant, Dolores, stud. ZOol., Mt. Bot. Washington (St. Louis), zool. Thomas, G. W. med. stud. Harvard Conklin, Cecile L., instr., Goucher, Rutgers, bot. Holyoke. Bot. 1. Main, R. J., Med. Br. 108. Emb. Orbison, Agnes, asst. prof. ZOOl., Markle, M. S.. prof, bid., Earlham Titlebaum, A. stud. emb. Columbia. Craighill, Caroline Elmira. Br. 336. B., lab. asst., Car- (Ind.), zool. Br. 314. negie Inst. (Washington). Packard, C, assoc, Inst. Cancer Re- Marsland, D. A., instr. biol., N. Y. Uhlenhuth, Mrs. E., res. asst. to Dr. Copeland, search, Columbia. O. M. 26. J. J., Earlham (Ind.), Univ.* protozool. Uhlenhuth. Br. 122D. Bot. Page, L H., chemist, Eli Lilly. Br. Miller, Helen M., Washington (St. Uhlenhuth, E., assoc. prof, anat., Crawford, 325. W. W., grad. asst. zool., Louis), phys. Maryland Med. Br. 122D. Missouri, Palmer, G. D., asst. prof, chem., Zool. Miller, R. M., Lafayette, zool. Uhlemeyer, Bertha, asst. prof, proto, Kansas State. O. M. Base. Crosman, A. M., grad. stud., Colum- Morris, Helen S., Hunter, proto. zool. Washington (St. Louis). Br. Pantin, C. F. A., physiologist. Marine bia, Protozool. Morton, H. S., Dalhousie (Can.), 226. Biol. Assoc, Plymouth, Eng. Br. Cuaiunco. F.. instr. anat., Univ. phys. Vicari, Emilia M., med. stud., Cor- 324. Philippines, Emb. Nalin, Laura J., asst. zool., Missouri, nell Med. Br. 317. * Parmenlcr, C. L., asst. prof, zool., Daniel, G. E., Arkansas, zool. zool. Wallace, Edith M. artist to Dr. Mor- Pennslyvania. Br. 221. Dawley, Charlotte, asst. zool., Wash- Nelsen, O. E., instr. zool., Pittsburgh, gan, Columbia. Br. 321. Pasquini, P., Int. Ed. Board Fellow, ington (St. Louis), zool. emb. Walters, Mary J., med. stud., Penn- asst. prof, phys.. zool. Br. 315. DeForest, D. M., instr. biol., Union, Nomura, S., Imp. ' sylvania. Br. 205. Peebles, Florence, phys. L. 21, phys. Univ. (Japan), phys. Wecse, A. O., prof, zool., Oklahoma. Diller. grad. asst. zool., Perkins. E. B., grad. stud, zool.. Har- W. F., instr. biol., Franklin Parpart, A. K., Am- vard Med. L. 25. and Marshall, protozool. herst, protozool. stud., Harvard stud. Smith, Perlzweig, W. A., assoc. med., Hop- Wheeler, P. H., med. Dowling. A. S., grad. stud.. Harvard, Parpart, Mrs. E. R., grad. kins Hosp. Br. 319. med. Br. 210. phys. emb. Parker, asst. biol., Yale, zool. Peterson, Walburga A., fellow ZOol., Wieman, H. S.. prof, zool., Cincin- Drayer, C. S., Ohio Wesleyan, zool. R. C, Oberlin, zool. Chicago. O. M. Base. nati. Br. 334. Duryee, W. R., Yale, zool. Parsons, Elizabeth, Dyer, asst. hygi- Payne, Nellie M., Nat. Res. fellow, Plough, H. H., prof, biol., Amherst. Wierda. J L., inst. anat., Cornell, Br. Helen A., pharm. enic lab.. phys. Pennsylvania, zool. Br. 126. 312. Washington, D. C, THE COLLECTING NET PAGE FIVE

.Pcrrine, Ruth R., Oberlin, zool. SUPPLY DEPARTMENT Linton, E., parasitologist, Dept. of Seiwell, H. R., assist, in zool., asst. res. zool., I Zool., Peterson, Daggmar H., N. Gray, G. M., curator. Pennsylvania, room 146. to Dr. P. S. Galtsoff, U .S. B. F., J. Agri. Exp. Sta., bot. Veeder, J. J., captain. room 123. I MacCallum, G. A., parasitologist, Bal- Madeline E., RaddifTe, zool. -Pierce, I Lewis, E. M., engineer. timore, Bureau of Fisheries, Sette, O. E., assist, in charge, Div. Pinkston, J. O., instr. biol., Southern, Leathers, A. W., head, shipping dept. Woods Hole, room 144. of Fishery Industries, room 140. Stough, Ala., phys. Crowell, Ruth S., secretary. p-_i,: r- D J ,^„ H. B., asst. prof. zool. Idaho, Perkins, E. B., Harvard,u room 123. Pike, M. H., Michigan, zool. McAfee, Cora L., secretary. room 123. Schroeder, W. C, field assist, at Popa, G. T., chief asst., Bukarest, Ballard W. W., collector. Wilson, C. B., prof, of biol., State large, Roumania, emb. Conklin, P., fireman. U. S. Bur. Fisheries, room Normal School, Westfield, Mass., 140. 123. Preu, P. W., Cornell Med., emb. Crane, S., collector. room Davis, W. A., collector. Reinhard, E. C, instr. zool., Buffalo Godrich, J., deckhand. Soc. Nat. Sciences, zool. Healy, D. C., collector. Rich, Robins, Sweet Briar, zool. Hilton, A. M., collector. Robertson, D. F., Missouri, phys. Hobbs, K. L., collector. g-rad. asst. zool., Dal- Robb, R. C, Jackman, W. L., collector. zool. housie, Lawrence, L. T., collector. Rogers, Edith, Goucher, zool. Lewis, E. M., engineer. EXHIBIT Rossmeisl, Elsie C, Smith, zool. Lillie, W., deckhand. Rowell, L. S., instr. zool., Vermont^ Lowney, L., substitute engineer. zool. Mclnnis, J., collector. Pearse, R. STUDENTS—Cont. L., collector. Robinson, W., ships carpenter. Scientific Instruments Schwind, J. L., asst. biol., Yale, zool. Tressler, W. L., collector. zool. Wamsley, F. W., collector. Sears, Mary, Radclitfe, zool. Whitelaw, R. N. S., collector. .Seton, H., Columbia, protozool. BUILDING AND GROUNDS Severinghaus, A. E., assist, zool., Co- July 1 9th to 30th lumbia, protozool. Hilton, H. A-, supt. buildings and grounds. Shattuck, G. E., Wesleyan, zool. Larkin, T., supt. mechanical dept. Shields, M. C, grad. instr. biol., Phipps, R. E., mechanician. Phillips Academy, zool. Hemenway, W., carpenter. -Showers, Edith, Smith, protozool. LECTURE HALL Bisco, A. H., storekeeper and head Sloane, Eleanor, Wilson, zool. janitor. Smith, G. H., instr. bot., Univ. Illi- nois, bot. NATIONAL RESEARCH St. John, J. H., instr. parasitology. COUNCIL Army Med. Sch., protozool. Cole, L. J., chair, Taussig, J., Harvard, bot. div. biol. and agr. Elliot, Bausch & Lomb Optical Co. TeWinkel, Lois E., assist, zool., Bar- Edith L., sec. Board Nat. Res. Fellowships, nard, protozool. biol. sciences. Executive Offices and Manufactory Thompson, M. Helen, Knox, zool. Thome, Louise C, Sec. to Dr. Cole. Turnbull, Virginia E., teacher, Dor- BUREAU OF. FISHERIES chesttr H. S., bot. Rochester, N. Y. Snyder, Prof. Underwood, Katharine, A. B. Vassar, J. O., zool., Stanford, zool. room 118, Director. Buhrer, Van Cleave, C. D., asst. zool., Chi- Edna M., (at Fisheries Lab. cago, zool. with Dr. N. A. Cobb), junior nem- atologist, Van Duyne. S. Elizabeth, phyS. and U. S. Dept. Agric, room teacher, Goucher, emb. 123-5. Vordemberge, Anna M., Goucher, Bullington, W. E., prof, biol., Ran- bot. dolph Macon (Virgiinia), room FIRE Walker, Harriet P., Smith, emb. 123. ALARM KEY Christie, "Walls, G. L., Tufts, zool. J. R., assoc. nematologist, SPECIAL SIGNALS Warbasse, Agnes, Barnard, zool. U. S. Dept. of Agri., room 123. West, L. S., prof, biol.. Battle Creek, Cobb, N. A., nematologist, Dept. of 22 Daily Test Signal at 12 o'clock noon and 4:30 P. M. protozool. Agriculture, room 123. 33 General Alarm, followed by a box number. Weston, Dorcas, technician, zool. Conger, P. S., diatomist, asst. to Dr. 4 Forest Fire. This may be followed by a box number. Albert Willey, C. H., instr. biol., N. Y. Univ., Mann, Carnegie Institution, 12 Chimney or other Small Fire reported over telephone. Washington, protozool. D. C, room 123. 21 No School signal at 7:45 A. M. Wolf, Opal M., assist, zool., Wiscon- Connolly, C. J., instr. comp. psy.. 55 Aid requested by ''out of town" call. sin, zool. Catholic Univ., Washington, D. C, Woods, F. H., instr. zool., Missouri, room 123. All persons are warned to comply with the new "right of way" law zool. Corder, Margaret N., sec. to Dr. for fire apparatus and not park within 600 feet of any fire, and Worraley, L. C, Dartmouth, zool. Cobb, room 123. also to "pull over" and permit apparatus to pass. Worth, Evelyn W., Penn State, bot. Crosley, R. W., assisting Dr. P. S. Wright, S., fellow zool., Wisconsin, Galtsoff, U. S. Bur. Fisheries, If you do not know how to operate a fire alarm box, ask any fireman zool. room 123. and he will be glad to show you. Visitors are welcome at any Wu, C. F., Wisconsin, emb. Drayton, Jessie E., U. S. Bur. Fish- fire station during the day. Zeek, Pearl M., med. stud., Columbia, eries, Washington, D. C, sec. to protozool. director. Fisheries Lab., room 118. Box Location Box Location Eichorn, A. S., asst. in zool.. Western ADMINISTRATION 14 Phinney's Boat Shop 341 Hilton's, Reserve, Cleveland, 0., storekeep- Glendon Rd., W. H. McNaught, F. M., business manager. er Fisheries Lab., room 131. 15 Tower House 342 Nobska Pt. Section, W. Hole Crowell, Polly L., asst. to the business Fisii, C. J., assoc. acquatic biol. U. S. 16 Terrace Gables Hotel 343 Fenno's Farm House, Quissett manager. Bur. Fisheries, room 115. 17 Vineyard Sound Hotel 345 Marshall's House, Quissett Chambernin, Thelma I., Secretary. Fish, Mrs. Marie P., field assist, at 18 Maravista District 346 Quissett Four Corners MacNaught, Jeannette, office asst. large, U. S. Bur. Fisheries, room 19 Davisville District 347 School House, W. Hole LIBRARY 115. 23 Cor. Morse R. & Palmer Av. 343 Carlton Estate, Nobska Ford, Regina M., asst. librarian, U. 232 Surf Drive 349 Gansett Section Montgomery, Hugh, acting asst. lib. S. Bur. Fusheries, Washington, 234 Almshouse 35 West Millfield Sts., Montgomery, Hugh, acting assistant room 143. & W. H. 235 Queens' Buyway 36 U. S. Buoy Yard, W. Hole Lawrence, Deborah, secretary. Galtsoff, Mrs. P. S., technician, assist, Railroad Station Oliphant, Dolores, typist. to Dr. Galtsoft", Bur. of Fisheries, 236 37 Steamboat Wharf, W. Hole Veader, Marjorie, typist. Woods Hole, Mass., room 122. 237 Jones Road & Gilford St. 38 Prospect St., & Buz. Bay Ave. Griffin, Charlotte, file clerk. Galtsoff, P. S., aquatic biol., U. S. 238 Clinton Ave. & King St. 39 Penzance Point Section Look, Elizabeth, file clerk. Bur. Fisheries, room 122. 24 Falmouth National Bank 41 East Falmouth Post Office CHEMICAL SUPPLY ROOM Goffin, R. A., collector, U. S. Bur. of 242 Teaticket Post Office 412 Sandwich & Brick Kiln Rds. Fisheries, Woods Hole, room 119. 25 Wood Lumber Co. 413 East Falmouth, Fuller's Cor. Strong, O. S., assoc. prof, neur., Co- Gray, L E., asst. prof, of zool., Tu- 26 Falmouth Grade Sch. Main St. 42 Menauhant District lumbia, Director. lane, 123. room 27 Cor. Main and Walker Sts. 43 Waquoit District Wolff, W. A., grad. stud, chem., Penn- Hall, F. G., prof, of biol., Univ., Duke 28 High School, Main & Srore Sts432 Fresh Pond District sylvania, Asst. Director. room 123. 29 Cor. Clinton & Scranton Aves. 45 West Falmouth District ASSISTANTS Heinly, Helen M., (at Fisheries Lab. 32 Hose No. 5 Station, W. Hole 46 North Falmouth District Ballard, Mary, stud., Mt. Holyoke. witli Dr. N. A. Cobb), junior nem- Gunning Point District 47 Dunlap, Anna C, stud., Wellesley. atologist, U. S. Dept. Agric, room 324 Megansett Haas, Dorothea, stud., Mt. Holyoke. 123-1. 325 Sippewisset Hotel District 48 Silver Beach Hale, J., stud., Oberlin. Hoffses, G. R., supt. U. S. Fisheries 326 Quissett Harbor House 49 Hatchville District Holbert, Pauline, stud., Elmira. Station, Woods Hole, room 117. 34 Quissett & Buz. Bay Aves. 492 Ashumet District

Jennings, B., stud.. Friends Sch. , Lepkovsky, S., res. worker, Dept. of

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THE SEA URCHIN DiSTINGUISHED BIOLO- that in the males an unusual re- ceives it only from the mother. GISTS DELIVER LECTURES lation exists between the mater- While the cytological study of nal and paternal chromosomes. the female has not IT PRICKS WITHOUT been com- This opens up new lines of work pleted, peculiarities of distribu- DISCRIMINATION (Continued from Page 1) to compare with the condition in tion are expected to be encount- the females and to explain dif- ered that supplement those of with great trepidation It is between structure and function ferences with other forms. male. .that we learn of the establish- in the establishment of reflexes Many lantern slides were shown C. B. B. ment of a daily newspaper from the primary system to to illustrate this interesting re- is to be the official organ Muscular Activity which those of increasing complexity in port o fprogress. •of the Marine Biological Labora- On July 21, in the fifth of the amphibian larvae give a new (2) The cytological phenom- tory. The staff selected by the nd fundamntal clew to problems ena o fthree species of the rather series of evening lectures, Dr. ;€xecutive commdttee is given be- struc- of nervous regulation and primitive fly Sciai-a were inves- Wallace 0. Fenn, professor of -low: ture The speaker ended with tigated. The groups physiology at the University of Dr. Thomas Hunt Morgan, chromosome the general conclusion that nerve and the characteristics of the re- Rochester, treated the members .Editor-in^hief. cells continue their growth and duction process were found to of the laboratory to an interest- Dr. Henry J. Fry, Assistant establish new relations during be essentially the same in all ing discussion of certain phases Editor. life. We should not then think three species and to differ very of the energetics of muscular Dr. C. R. Plunkett, Business of the nervous system even in widely from in contraction. Dr. Manager. conditions found Fenn was the adults of higher forms as a set other diptera studied. fe- first American student to work Miss Louise Duggar, Private The of fixed and finally differentiated male possesses four pairs of in the laboratory of Professor .Secretary to the business mana- elements but as constantly cap- chromosomes and the male those A. V. Hill, in University College, -ger. able of changes and extensions four pairs and in addition two London, and much of his lecture It will be a csae of the sur- in its units, with new possibili- very large chromosomes that are was devoted to an account of the vival of the fittest, but we think ties of reactions and associa- therefore referred to as "sex- work carried out by him in this that our weekly will persist de- tions. limited." After the last sperma- laboratory. Using the delicate spite our formidable competitor. H. McE. K. togonia! division the ten chrom- methods for the measurement of Blood Respiration osomes apparently do not con- heat devised by Hill, Dr. Fenn All members of the laboratory jugate, but segregate into two was able to show that the Alfred Redfield. lare invited to attend the christ- Professor C. groups with a monopolar spindle- muscle, following stimulation, of the Harvard Medical School, ening of Clark's trusty sailboat One group of four is cast off in liberated more energy when it Respira- at 3 :00 P. M. on Saturday after- gave a paper on "The a small bud. The other group, was allowed to shorten than of Blood" in noon. A bottle of Canada Dry tory Proteins the four plus both of the sex-limited when shortening was prevented, theauditorium, Tuesday evening, will be broken across the bow. chromosomes, there undergoes and that the muscle is able to 6. varied behavior It has not yet been decided July The an equatorial division and a sec- adjust the energy expanded to capacities of hemoglobia in whether it shall bear the name and ond bud with five chromosomes the load to be lifted. This was vertebrate blood and of hemo- "Ima Gona" or "Sinkanaa." is given off (two sex-limited true even when the load was al- invertebrate blood in cyanin in chromosomes and three of the tered after the muscle had begun relation to oxygen and carbon committee was organized to four other chromosomes). One to shorten. Furthermore dur- A dioxide were set forth very fully telephone in the office of the four pairs of chromo- ing relaxation a definite libera- install a and thoroughly by the speaker. of the custodian of apparatus. somes divides but both daughter tion of heat takes place which is A considerable series of animals receiver only was deemed halves remain in the main cell proportional to the load to be The were studied and many curves body. This main cell body then lowered. These facts were sufficient. the and tables were thrown on transforms directly into a sper- brought out by a number of in- screen furnishing a valuable set "tricks," Dr. bicycle race is to be staged matozoon, one coming from each genious as Fenn A of comparative data for refer- between Wesleyan and Colum- final spermatogonium, all sperms aptly called them, by means of ence in further blood studies; bia shortly. The Columbia rep- bein galike with seven chromo- which the load on a muscle and a surprising individualitj resentative will be assisted by somes. The mode of inheritance could be changed at any time and variability was discovered his chromosomic group. of a mutant character was such during the actual process of con- own in the behavior of the blood of as to suggest, that a male re- traction and relaxation. various organisms along these Dr. Darby is trying to work lines. off superfluous flesh on the H. McE. K. dance floor. The outlook is Genetics of Sciara bright if the floor holds. He THE ELIZABETH THEATRE also has the record of being the Dr. C. W. Metz. of the Station MASS. only man to play a 7-0 tennis for Experimental Evolution at FALMOUTH, match. Cold Spring Harbor, on Tuesday evening, Julv 13, delivered a lec- WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY, JULY 28—29 Dr. J. A. Dawson, president ture on "Aberrant Features of Matinee Wednesday Only at 2.30 of the International Horseshoe- Chromosome Behavior and The foremost actor in America in the screen adaptation of Mel- pitching Association and general Genetic Behavior in Sciara and ville's "IMoby Dick," the epic of the New Bedford Whaling Days. manager of the Amoeba Distrib- the Problems They Present." The tang of the sea—the thrill of the chase—all the adventure uting Corporation of America, Two abstracts of this page have and romance of the lives of the intrepid heroes of a famous era in has been having the "goll darn- been received by The Biolog and this masterpiece of the deep. dest" time this summer. Be- since, to a certain extent, they Admission 50 Cents; Children 25 Cents sides taking charge of the in- supplement each other, both are vertebrates, commuting week printed below. FRIDAY, JULY 30, 1926. ends and pitching horseshoes, he (1) The lecturer described a "THE SAVAGE" has been appointed official novel relationship between the With BEN LYON and MAY McAVOY chaperon of the Dalhousie con- chromosomes of the two sexes in Come over—meet the savage—he's a bad, bad boy, but you'll tingent. the fungus-gnat Sciara, and sev- love him—he never was much in a dinner coat—^but in a bear skin eral peculiarities in chromosome he knocks 'em all cold Dr. Read Ellsworth's "limou- behavior, including the regular COMEDY TOPICS sine" has been accepted by the occurrence at one spermatocyte community. Any one wishing division of a monocentric mito- SATURDAY, JULY 31, 1926. to use it should apply to the sis, involving cell division and Matinee at 2:30 physician of the laboratory but chromosome segregation. In Zane Grey's "BORN TO THE WEST" be sure to bring pliers along to these flflies the male possesses A Paramount Picture with JACK HOLT and RAYMOND HATTON turn the key. Dr. Ellsworth is two more chromosomes than the If you have red blood in your veins, this picture is for you. his buying gasoline in single female, which are confined to the Slam-bang action—thundering thrills and pleasing romance. gallon lots and before the sum- male line, "sex-limited." PATHE NEWS COMEDY mer is over he hopes to wean the Both microscopic study and car. breeding experiments indicate ;

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Conklin during the week end. ALGAE Brannon entertained a boy | Lida Estate of M. H. WALSH Where do we get our

friend. ! This week's tale of adventure One thing that must not b? ROSE SPECIALIST DRY GOODS begins fittingly with the seminar forgotten is the peach treat that WOODS HOLE STATIONERY held Monday evening in the old Climenko held last Tuesday. Bob ] lecture hall. The Rev. A. M. Every member of the class re- Roses Shrubs BATHING SUPPLIES Keefe who spoke on "Sargassum, ceived a peach, especially Dr. Perennials Eveigreer. at with Notes on the Sargassum Rogers. Sea," and completely destroyed Planting and Pruning any lurking romantic notions THE TENNIS TOURNAMENT that any of us may have had of Mrs. Snow^s "Isle of Lost Ships." The this All the tournaments—men's aftermath of the seminar con- SAMUEL CAHOON Store and women's singles, men's large pot of mytili. sisted of a doubles and mixe ddoubles—are Wliolesale and Retail KODAK FILMS crackers, and an overwhelming to be finished up this week' if Dealer in Developing of fudge concocted by the ; and Priating supply possible. The women's singles hand of Fanny Fern Smith.; Fish and Lobsters are all played off except the fin- This feast was prepared in lab, als, which will be between Miss Woods Hole Tel. 660 - 6G1 unanimous vote, it was but by a Field and Miss Holt. In the Good Work Quick Service decided that the moonlight on Falmouth - 329 men's singles, Lancefield is up the beach was irresistable ; and to the final bracket. Goodrich after all, if one is eating that, and Bennett have yet to play. the first time, it's Well Fed means a Clear Head. mytilus for Lewis plays the winner, and Est. 1892 Phone 410 it in the dark. So Can you work witli an empty better to do will be between Army marched down then the finals stomach? the Botany Lancefield and one of these HAIR DRESSER the sea with the commissary Home Cooking Just Like to three. Shingling and Bobbing department bringing up the rear. Mothers After the edibles had disap- DANCE AT THE CHAS. H. NUGENT Eat and be satisfied at peared, we sang all the songs we formerly L. L. Eldridge Mrs. Harry Handy's knew in all the keys available M. B. L. CLUB Woods Hole Near Drawbridge MASS. and in as mnay parts as could WOODS HOLE, (Continued from Page 1) be wished until someone suggest- ed getting back in time for the advantage of it, but by 10 o'clock morning lecture, and the army there were approximately a hun- Special Closing Out Sale demobilized. dred people dancing on both of FALMOUTH seminar is ad- .This week's floors of the club. Fish of the Fish dressed by Dr. During the evening, delicious HARDWARE RESTAURANT whose subject is Commission, fruit punch was served which "Life the Open Ocean, as on was rendered doubly delicious by MAIN ST., FALMOUTH Arcturus." The EASTMAN'S Seen from the the warmth of the evening. commissary department shows It is generally agreed that the MAIN ST., FALMOUTH H. TOYOTA, MgT. signs of continued activity and dance was by all odds the most all looks well. delightful affair ever given in Dr. Lewis announces that the the club, and on all hands we Chicken, Steak, Chops, Twelfth Annual Indoor Track hear nothing but the most lavish Fish. and Field Meet will be held in untiring efforts of ]n-aise for the H. MALCHMAN & BRO. the Botany Laboratory on Mon- the members of the dance com- Chop Suey and Chow Mein day, Aug. 2. mittee of which Mrs. McCutch- eon was chairman. THOMAS MALCHMAN, Prop. Open 6:30 A. M. to 11:00 P. M. EMBRYOS "THE COLLECTING NET"

(Continued from page 1) Beginning Tuesday Dr. Pack- Clothiers, Hatters and ard lectures the embryology class Ebb Tide, Woods Hole Ph, THE SEA ROPIN on fertilization and cell lineage. Protoplasm, King Crab, Puffer, Furnishers Breakfast, Dinner, Sup{*«r Dr. E. E. Just gave a special lec- Woods Howler, Woods Holler, ture Friday on fertilization. Embee-yeller, Amylopsin (A Afternoon Tea This has been a very busy Digest of Laboratory News), week in the lab. Dr. Rogers W. Hole News, Embielle, Ob- Main St. Falmouth MRS. CRITTENDEN didn't seem to mind the heat and servation, Data, Round the Lab Phone: 667-3 thought we ought to work even Group, Time Killer, Demon- if we did have headaches. Most stration, Lab Lines, Cattellog, of the students are repeating ex- Confucian, Aristotle's Lantern, periments that were failures Squirt (Issued Weekly), Town during his reign, but that is all Pump, Sea Horse, Amebocyte in the interests of science and (It (Circulates), Fog Horn, M. DOLINSKY & CO. nobody really cares. MarBioLab News, Limulus, Catherine Hinchey entertained Volvox, Agassiz News, M. B. L. :: during the week Miss Lydia News, Bug Hunters Snews, M. TAILORS :: Fletcher of Providence, R. I. B. Lism, Lobster Claw, Aquari- Dr. Lindsey and Mr. Matteson um, Larboard Log, Biologue, For prompt service and first class work call at of Seymour, Ct., visited Cecile Woods Hole Mixer. M. Dolinsky & Co., Main St., Woods Hole, Mass., =B who make a specialty of W C DAVIS COMPANY HOME FURNISHERS They also do FALMOUTH MASS Cleaning, Pressing, Dyeing and Making =a — The Collecting Net

VOL. 1. NO. 3 WOODS HOLE, MASS.,THURSDAY, AUGUST 5 TEN CENTS TOWN TOPICS Laboratory Activities The Falmouth Nursing Asso- UNCATENA ADRIFT ciation will give a fete on Vil- Friday, Aug. 6, 4:30-6:00 P. M. lage Green in Falmouth, on Bureau of Fisheries Tea. OFF J UNIPER POINT Thursday, Aug. 5. The follow- Friday, Aug. 6, 8:00 P. M. Even- ing attractions are listed: ma- ing Lecture. "Absor^ytion of rine biological exhibition, KaLions and Anions by Plant Roots", by Dr. Howard S. Reed, Coast Guard Boats Prevent Stranding of Well- Judj', fortune tell- Punch and Graduate School of Tropical ing, clown ring throwing, put- AcricuHture, University of Cal- Krtown Passenger Boats ting match, Bridgewater band, ifornia. .7(3 block dancing, and booths dis- Saturday, Aug. 7, 8:60 P. M. Club Plays. Auditorium. Open to Shortly after leaving the dock at Woods Hole, pensing everything imaginable. Tuesday the Public. Ticl

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held at the M. B. highest portion'neuitral red and iodine--- solution, lology-• tea was Fisheries bonv plates the — i Bureau of members of the class 'L. Club from 4 :00 to o :bO. and, mtiie front' and the widest near Certain seem to have a propensity for like the other affairs of the class (Continued from Page 1) the middle At the present I finding particularly nervous it was a big success, as all will time the length of the carapace ] at, beasts, for they claim that every testify who were there. It was aside from the superficial re- is three feet and the width feet, time a horse-shoe lands at the noted that several of the male^ semblance of parts, the only its widest portion is two | the buildmg, the pro- members of the class were ab- I outside homology that exists is between while the weight is over one peg their part as sea-horse and [tof.oa pro\-es that he possesses at sent, failing to act the head of the i hundred pounds, attributes of liv- hosts at the tea. There is some horse. The con experimentation has : least one of the the head of a little by hav- it ing things, namely irritibility, italk of penalizing these stricted"portion oFtl^e s'ea:horsfi , on this turtle but ' ,,een done - '" • • ' it by "jump-ung them stand treat lor the does not correspond with the that after entering nd demonstrates is known aftex least "ten feet." Maybe I whole class the first warm with the' out to sealing at ._ neck of the horse but water it will swim _ t i. iu- the protozoologist m question [noon that comes abng. Let^this abdomen, the fish having no true •ittracted by the darker blue of cilia, rather than feet. be a warning to the hosts of fu- ! means ten neck. the water It will move away are occa- ture teas. i At any rate, the beasts There is a curious modifica- from transparent and opaqiie isionally given rather severe cen- Last week Dr. C. L. Liu of tre tion of the finless tail, which de red orange and green, it moves such times Ihe stud,, several prives the fish of locomotion, toward transparent or opaque .sure at protozoology class spent restrict- of living forms cute torms hos days with friends in Maine. He however it giv?ives the tail a new ),i,.e The young under given way to some extent to the bi'ought back some cultures of function— prehension —result ed environment are found to be preparation of stained perma- which have been ing from its power to curl in- photop'hilous. responding .to a pond water Here the bugs are in- wards and sideways. The tail of low illumination Iment mounts. found to contain some very large^ area -- subjected to the drastic meas- protozoa. is wound around the stem of teresting ures of sticking, stopping, stain- some plant and the body held hie h illumination. On Saturday, July 31st, Dr. quite erect. The body is thrust ing and studying. G. N. Calkins gave the last of a Arrivals outward at various angles, the Recent But^^ on the whole, the labora- series of thirty lectures. The Collector, Brook- tail being wound around ths^ Borodin, N. tory"work fcTr the" past week has lecture work is over one week N. Y. Bureau oi plant in a double coil. One eye ' lyn Museum, ^^^^^ rather sparse, due to activi- before the formal closing of the Laboratory, room 1-^-.. U-j^g will look in one direction and [Fisheries outside. The protozoology course due to the fact that Dr. rpj^^^j^.g^^^y^ Harvard I the other will remain in position' Fries, E. G. B., p-j^j^j^j-igj^j j^^^jy 22nd, Calkins sailed for Europe on Bureau ol This Graduate School. ^^.^^g ^^ ^^j.^j^t g^,(.(,ggs_ The Cft.w- wav. [ or roll the opposite i Sunday, August 1st. Laboratory, room lio..^^^^^^, ', Fisheries demonstrates clearlv that the jp^j ^Yie dock at 11 :45 with The identification of species fish can move its eyes independ- a merry crowd of about 40 peo-|jjj Woods Hole Reminiscences i ^he laboratory is completed each other, and in dif- aboard. Atter a delighttui ently of Dr. Edward Linton gave aniPle j^,^^ ^^^^^ ^f ^^le class is now oc Its actions trip across Vineyard Souncl tho i ferent directions. extremely interesting lecture ^.^^^jg^ ^^,j^^ making slides and remind one of a near-sighted boat docked at Tarpaulin Cove. ^^^. last Thursday evening to a de- |g^.|^|^yjj^g ^j^^ ^^^.^^ examina- person. The day was an ideal one for lightful audience at the Fisher- tion which comes Monday morn- When it releases itself froin . picnic, and the swimming wa:^ ies. The subject of his talk was ing, August 9th. support it moves in a vertical iyery enjoyable The sandy its Reminiscences of Woods Hole," The social end of the class has plane, tail curved inward, the beach is an excellent one and the and manv a chuckle was heard been well taken care of this past dorsal fin undulating like a • • place IS a delightful picnic as he related curious incidents week. On Thursday an ice screw propeller, and its pecto- ground. The dinner provided of his earlv acquaintances here. cream and cake party was held rals vibrating in harmony. was certainly not the least en- He told of the founding of the with the funds left over from The natural food of the sea- joyable part of the program. Fisheries, and about the lives of the class picnic. On Saturday horse consists of small Crusta- Dinner was in order immediately men connected with it, as Spen- another ice cream and cake cea, such as copepods, sand flea,':-. after landing, and it is astound cer Baird and Vinal Edwards party was held on the proceeds shrimps and the young of higher '"? ^oat-ride and a picnic Dr E. G. Wilson added a few ^fa^..^^ of a series of. class pictures. forms. In aquaria a substitute i"^"" ^1°.^ one s appet te. remarks and brought out the has been devised in the form af fI" t^e morning s lecture, the fact that he became affiliated! the larvae of the common gnat class marvelled at the enormous SOUTH HARPWELL with the Bureau of Fisheries or mosquito. The fish will capacity of some of the ciliates. four years earlier than the HOTEL BURNS slowly approach its food, peer- as regards food. In the after- speaker of the evening. Re- ingg atai Uit aimand suuuemvsuddenly theuue am-ani > „„,„.„j „„-! noon, everyone proceeded to f reshments were s^i ved and fl disappears. as though sucked demcnstrate a quite similar ca- Fifty guests fled from the m i -"^ , . Q-,7Qi.irr,na — - . ° » everyone Spent an en.ioyauie in. The food must be at rest for : pacity, devouring a tremendous Ocean View Hotel at South "evening, is too to get sau- the .sea-horse slow quantity of my till, lobster, Harpwell, Me., as the house was anything moving. sage, pickles, etc., etc. too num- destroyed by fire at midnight This popular curiosity can be AOZOTORP erous to mention so that the flames seen in the aquarium of the original self must have been re last Friday. The were of Fisheries. It is a re- possible visible 20 miles at sea. Bureau In the lectures by Professor duced to the thinnest cent addition, having been ob- discussion, 'ayer surrounding the "gastric The origin of the fire was un- Garv N. Calkins, the , „ ., . ^ tained during the past week vacuoles. Also the., fact was of the derived organization of! determined. A fiery cross had from the New York Aquarium pointed out in the morning, in „! protozoa has given place to the hill ' been burning on a nearby by Robert A. Gofim, collector of - - the specific case of didinium,, more interesting subject of the shortly before the fire in the the bureau. that after a heavy meal, he must fundamental organization, or the hotel was discovered but wheth- not be disturbed in any way, as The Logger-Head Turtle fundamental vital activities of er sparks from that or from the the slightest irritation will bring The logger-head turtle, Chf'- living things, as exemplified by hostelry's kitchen started the about the bursting and conse onudce, is the large sea-turtle ihe protozoa. In the laboratory, flames, firemen were undecided. j^uent di.s.solution of the animal seen in the Bureau of Fisheries : the inces.sant hunting for species injured but .Those on the picnic know exactly No guest was is the fourth vear! those already pool. This different from practically lost all their possess-

! how Didinium feels at such a it been on exhibition. found and drawn still continues. that has | ,^ime, tor they telt lust that way. ions. captured in a fi.shermen |lt is both a disappointment and It was stood on an to At_ least they .sat around very The hotel which net in Buzzards Bay directly i a source of some satisfaction quietly for a considerable time eminence, overlooking Casco beyond Penzance Point. Each [go over a drop of pond-water, no one venturing to exercise, bay, formerly was the Lawson winter it is di.splayed in the City 'and when the various forms certainly not in the water house and for 50 years was one Aciuarium of Bo.ston and in the come into the field of the micro- the best known in Maine. It About 4:30, after an afternoon i of summer it is brought back to- scope, to be able to recognize a by Eli Perry, Port- i of .swimming and boating and was owned Woods Hole to be placed in the large number of them, even as games al scrambled to get land. open pool though thev are not available | ready tor the trip back to Woods View House was When first caught this turtle additional species, because they The Ocean jHole when the Cai/adetta ap- to of our biol- was approximately one-half its have already been drawn. well known some on the horizon. It was present size, then weighing The protozoa are just as nerv-|Peared ogists_ who frequented the old usual truly the end of a perfect day. Harinvell Laboratory of bygone lous in spite of the j about from fiftv to sixty pounds, as ever, j days. Its carapace is covered withldoses of such "nerve tonics" asi Friday, July 23. the protozo- j 1

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THE SEA URCHIN services of Dr. Robert Chambers have become interested in the and Dr. P. Re-nikoff. It is be- effectiveness of various physico- [T PRICKS WITHOUT lieved that their troupe of well chemical properties on monster- DISCRIMINATION trained Amoebae will be a great formation on copper-penny em- H. MALCHMAN & BRO. It was seriously suggested by drawing card. bryos. The lecture-program for an influential member of the last week was as follows: THOMA.S MALCHMAN, labo;'atory community that this A sad accident occurred in Monday, July 26. Dr. B. column be christened ''The Botany Lab the other day. Jo- Meigs, Some Aspects of the Re- Prop. Drosophila." The editorial S',af: seph Copeland severely sprained lation between Nutrition and carefully considered this pro- his shoulder while attempting Health. posal which seemed especially to pat himself on the back for Tuesday. July 27, Dr. E. M. Clothiers, Hatters and appropriate owing to certain having identified, all by his own Lanciis, Physiology of Capil- circumstances which can be ap- little self, ,iust as many algae as laries. Furnishers preoiaied better by them than had one of the teams. The sym- Wednesday, July 28, Dr. D. J. by most of the readers of the pathy of the general public is Edwards. Heart Physiology with paocr. However, their better solicited. Particular Reference to Conduc- ^ judgment prevailed, and hence tion. i Main St. Falmouth its present name. It appears that a representa- Thursday. July 29, Dr. Hall-! tive of the Society for the Pre- owell Davis. Metabolism of

[ A certain prominent botanist •v'entino of Cruelty to Animals Nerve. L. demonstrated his enthusiasm attended Dr. Chambers' lecture Friday, July 30, Dr. Frank for dancing at the Club House and demonstration. He was Lillie, Protoplasmic Conduction. on Saturday night by his rapid horrified at the wanton cruelty Saturday, July 31, Dr. K. Where do we get our and determined entrance of bayoneting a living soul. Hartline, Some Photo-biologic DRY GOODS through the doors of the club. Court action will be taken. Reactions. He turned out to be more un- On Thursday of last week. Dr. STATIONERY j popular than one would suppose. The biologist who delivered Knowlton took over the labora- BATHING SUPPLIES he almost went down tory work from Dr. Amberson. Although the Sedgwick Memorial Lecture j on his knees and presented a the evening of July 27 appro- The list of the remaining lee- at on j pathetic picture of pensiveness priately celebrated the event tures in physiology follows; and persuasiveness, two charm- with his family by dispensing Monday, Aug. 2, Dr. F. P. ing young ladies absolutely re- with bicycles and using in their Knowlton. The Mechanism of Mrs. Snow's fused to dance with him. place his four-chromosome car Nervous Conduction, with an as a means of conveyance to the Analysis of the Various Phases. Store benefit of those who For the laboratory. Tuesday, Aug. 3. Dr. Knowl- KODAK FILMS want to know—the new fire ton, Conclusion of the Above. alarm was selected because of Developing and Printing OUR BACIA Wednesday, Aug. 4, Dr. C. F. its musical quality. It is known A. Pantin, Some Phases of unofficially as the sick cow and Ameboid Movement, with Par- the dying calf. Extra! Fenn Says "No Fair" ticular Reference to Ionic Influ- Good Work Quick Service ences. caught Dr. Robert Chambers It will be recalled that in the Thursday, Aug. 5, Physiology train with fifteen seconds to his first, last, and only issue of the Picnic. spare on his last trip to North Well Fed means a Clear Head. Question Mark, it was rumored Fridav, Aug. 6, Dr. P. H. Truro. Last year's record Can you work with an empty that, in order to come to a de- Mitchell. stomach? shows that in one case he had cision in the weighty problem— Saturday, Aug. 7, Dr. Kno'wl- thirty seconds less to spare. Home Cooking Just Like Who Should Give the Lecture on ton. Comparative Physiology of Oxidation Potentials on July 24 the Nervous System. Mothers Dr. Patten's lecture has born Eat and be satisfied at Drs. Fenn and Amberson would Monday, Aug. 9, Dr. Knowl- immediate fruit. One of our probably find it necessary to tno. Conclusion of the Above Mrs. Harry ladies could not come to a lec- Handy's have recourse to the flippant and the Course. ture because, as her friend put WOODS HOLE, MASS. process of coin-tossing. Such T it. she was aftiicted with ostra- has been the case. But the mat- codermitus. ter has been decided, not by the hand of Fate alone, according The third floor "banana THE SEA ROBIN to your correspondent's inter- H. A. DANIELS group" is performing "Morgan- view with the victim. Breakfast, Dinner, Supper atic" marriages this year again In introducing his lecture on among their Drosophila. WOODS HOLE Afternoon Tea — July 24, Dr. Fenn took the opportunity .to make certain very Mrs. Calkins and Mrs. Dunlap grave charges against his col- MRS. CRITTENDEN are organizing a woman's secret league and opponent in the mat- Phone: 667-3 societj'. The nature of the so- ter. According to his statement, ciety is veiled in mystery, but there is ample evidence that the ICE we learn that the qualifications CREAM penny employed in the contest for membership are startling. was, like some of the products THE of our genetics laboratory, a COLEMAN & BELL The official representative of two-headed monster. Realizing the U. S. Post Office at Woods DRINKS COMPANY the seriousness of such an alle- Hole has organized his staff so Incorporated gation we made haste to inter- that the New York morning Manufacturing Chemists view Dr. Amberson, but he "had papers, mailed daily during the nothing to say," further than NORWOOD, OHIO summer, will reach their sub- that he had been as horribly REFRESHMENTS U. S. A. scribers now at the laboratory shocked by the accusation as we on or before Christmas Eve. had. Since then we have been Mr. Walter 0. Luscomb, we unable to locate Dr. Fenn, so learn, has just traded his horse that the ultimate outcome of the for a second-hand motorcycle. allegation is as yet uncertain. Open from 8:30 A. M. Patronize Our Apart from its human inter- Until 11:00 P. M. Ringling Bros, and Barnuni est, this episo'de has had a pecu- Advertisers and Bailey have engaged for the liar effect on the physiology winter at outlandish salaries the class. Several of its members PAGE FOUR THE COLLECTING NET

present facilities '' and with its I Dr. Patten Lectures on Dr. Michaelis Talks on The Collecting Net is doubtless necessary to impo;ie His Spitzbergen Trip Semi-Permeable Membrane Issued under the auspices of limitations on the number who The M. B. L. Club can eat there. All must appre- ciate that this necessity for The evening lecture of July On Friday evening, July 30. limitation presents a very difii- 22, "Hunting for Missing Links Professor Leonor Michaelis, o* OflFicers Club pi-oblem, but is there not Johns Hopkins University, lec- cult in Spitzberger," was given by D. J. Edwards Pres. room for improvement. If the tured on the subject "The Pro- Dr. William Patten, professor C. C. Speidel Vice-Pres. question could be presented be- perties of * Certain Artificial M. Sampson Sec.-Treas. fore the members of the corpor- of biology at Dartmouth college, Membranes as a Model for Cell Florence Tinkham .C/ioi'c. House Com. ation at their next meeting we and well known through his Membranes." Dr. Michaelis de-

Marion Rea Chair. .Social Com. believe that they would approve numerous publications which ! scribed the properties of a series of membranes of cf some modification of the pres- are based on embryological and different de- ent arrangement. grees of permeability. These Editorial Staff ana/comical studies of rare differences arise from varia- Ware Cattell Manayiny Editor Many of us do not realize that beauty and marvellous techni- tions in the size of the channels Helen H. Cattell, L. B. Clark, Anna Dr. Merkel Jacobs, professor of jai excellence. A large and ap- or pores through the membrane, C. Dunlap, A. Ranger Tyler, Assi:- physiology at the University of preciative audience heard Prof. permeability decreasing as the date Editors. Pennsylvania, has been conduct- tiiai 3 graphic account of his pore diameter diminishes. Thus Contributing Editors ing a course in calculus for the "hunt." The hunt was inspired thoroughly dried collodion Margaret Speidel. /»7'esfi(/afor News [biologists at the laboratory. by the information that there membranes are much more ef- Helen S. Morris Algae There is no fee of any descrip- had been found in the northwest fective, than are the more per- C. H. Willey Aozotorp tion connected with the course. corner of Spitzbergen certain meable and more porous collo- are fossil called F. I. Hollander Our Bacia His lectures, whose contents animals, Ostraco- dion membranes usually used. Cecile Conklin Embryo-i of immediate applicability to the terms, in a very wonderful state Membrane permeability for problems of biology, and a mas- of preservation. These fossils, ions A. S. Eichorn. . .i>i/)-e>a» of Fisheries can readily be studied by Eleanor Sloane .Proifoelhelmathcoida terpiece in clearness and sim- in Professor Patten's words, obsi.'rvations upon electrical po- Helen Jennings Town Tojyics plicity, are given on Tuesday hold the key to his scientific tential differences arising across and Friday afternoons at quar- problem, the origin of the verte- the membrane when it separates SCIENTIFIC WORKERS ter of five in the Old Lecture brates ; hence the expedition to solutions of the same electrolyte Hall. Those of us attending, Spitzbergen. in different concentration, or AND THE MESS greatly appreciate the time and The first part of the lecture equal concentrations of two dif-, trouble that he is taking to teach dealt with the position of the ferent electrolytes. In the first All members of the M. B. L. us how to wield a tool which is Ostracoderms "on the great instance theory demands that, if rejoice at the very moderate becoming increasingly more es- highway of evolution." Regard- the diffusion of one ion be com- charge made for food at the I sential in all fields of biological ed as the connecting link be- pletely suppressed, an E. M. F. mess, and yet one of the ele- investigation. tween the Giant Sea Scorpions of 51 millivolts will be observed ments which makes this possi- and the vertebrates, they resem- at 20 C when the concentration ble seems open to criticism. We are duly grateful to the We ble the former in the genera! ratio is 10:1. This E. M. F. is refer to the practice of charging assigning us laboratory for structure of the head, the paired produced by the definite orien- "outsiders" at the SIO.OO per 232 in the Brick Building Room jaws with lateral movement tation of anions and cations week rate. At best it can hardly official headquarters of for the rather than the forward-back- across the membrane producing be called a democratic principle, The Collcctiiifi Net. In so doing ward movement of all true ver- an electrical double layer. The and when it is applied to a fel- have given us what we they tebrates, the oar-like append- E. M. F.'s measured across dried low scientist who for one reason help us in our most needed to ages, the eyes and the minute collodion membranes closely ap- or another is not registered as a work. the spacious room And structure of the shell-like proximate the theoretical maxi- laboratory worker it Ijecomes es- satisfies vanity! our armor; on the other hand, they mum, values of 50 to 55 milli- pecially unfortunate. Take the All the business and editorial possess certain characters of th': volts being obtained. More per- case of a Harvard physiologist work is to be carried on in this fishes ; notably, fins and tail. meable membra'nes give lower who with his family visited the room. New copy, advertise- I Illustrations brought out these values. In the dried collodium last guest laboratory week as a : ments, etc., however, may be left points. membranes the movement o'f of certain members. The op- in Room 123 if it is more con- anions appears to be I There now followed an ac- almost portunity of talking to this Ivenient for those concerned. completely suppressed ; cations worker was of the greatest value count of the Hunter's experi- are able to move through the considerable group, as was There are two ways in which ences during his trip from New- to a pores. Across such membranes also the opportunity of hearing the readers of "The Collecting York to Oslo and thence to there is therefore the possibility lecture which he invited Net" can help forward its use- Spitzbergen. Numerous beauti- a was of an interchange of cations one of classes. fulness. They are: ful photographs and the lec- to give before the when the membrane separates This guest was charged over (1) Keeping one of the editors turer's descriptions made this informed about the activities solutions of two dift'erent elec- forty per cent, more than the fully the large part of the lecture. trolytes : anions of present and past laboratory Despite handicaps on one sort or are not ex- rest of us pay, thus in effect he workers. Notes on new arrivals, another, the "hunt" was a suc- changed. was asked to contribute toward departures, marriages, changes in cess. This differential effect upon our board. position ,etc. are read with inter- the movement of anions and ca- There is a large group of biol- est and appreciated by all. Returning from Spitzbergen, Making a special point of tions is correlated with the elec- ogists who annually visit Woods (2) Dr. Patten visited the State Mu- purchasing supplies from or in trical charge upon the mem- Hole for .short periods, and, al- seum at Stockholm where many other ways doing business with, the brane. In most membranes, as though they do not regularly firms that take advertising space in Spitzbergen Ostracoderms are in dried collodion, this charge is work in the laboratory, they our paper. And when this is done, under investigation by Profes- inform that "I saw your ad- almost always negative. Through contribute much to the support them sor Stensio. Thanks to Stensio's vertisement in "The CoUeeiing Net." "inch membranes positively the institution. of generosity. Professor Patten of Many charged cations can move, nega- these investigators come from had tlie opportunity to study We regret that the following tively charged anions are re- contributing laboratories, are what are prehaps the most per- jname was accidentally omitted tarded or completely stopped. former laboratoi-y members or fectly preserved fossils known [from the investigators' list in In protein membranes the memers of the corporation; and to science : blood vessels, cranial the "Director for 1926." charge is determined by the pH. as such have for years contrib- nerve, and other delicate struc- Esaki, Shiro, asst. prof, zool., On tlie alkaline side of the iso- uted to our welfare. They tures show up with such clear- Chicago (Keio Univ., Tokyo), electric point the charge is nega- should be welcomed to the lab- ness that they seem more like emb., Br. 121. ti\'e, and cations can penetrate; oratory as one of our group, and models than fossils millions of anmrs are retarded or stopped, the present discrimination Dr. and Mrs. Pantin of Ply- years old. The study of these and the E. M. F. ob.served in the against them, which in a num- mouth, England, who were in priceless specimens led Pro- "concentration effect" s'uows the ber of cases has been a source Woods Hole in June, have made fessor Pattern to conclude that more dilute solution to be ,lec- of ill feeling, should be abol- a flying visit California and the "missing link" in animal to tropositive. On the acid side of ished. are now back with us at the lab- evolution has at last been found. The mess is taxed to capacity oratory. E. E. J. (Continued on Page 5) THE COLLECTING NET—DRAMATIC SUPPLEMENT

HISTORY OF THE PLAYS THE M. B. L. CLUB

PLAYS FOR 1926 The M. B. L. Club was organized in An evening- of one-act plays, given 1914 and received from the Labora- by and for the benefit of tlie iVl. H. L. tory Officials the use the present Social and Tennis Clubs, has become of clubhouse to be used as a social an institution. They had their pre- PROGRAM center for those associated with the cursors in impromptu vaudeville per- M. B. L. and the Fish Commission. formances which had been gotten up The general exjienses are met by sporadically from time immemorial. The M. B. L. Club and The M. B. L. Tennis Club c:ub uues. In 1920, to meet the de- The first regular plays were presented mand for more space in the Club- in 1921^^ "Suppressed Desires" and present nouse, the decision to enlarge the "Behind the iSeyond" formed the porch at a cost of $1,590.00 required menu in a little theatre improvised The Annual Benefit Plays the raising of money. The enter- in the Mess Hall. It was there that tainment committee agreed that with Dr. Lyon blossomed out as a com- M. B. L. AUDITORIUM — AUGUST 7, 1926. only $21 in the trasury, it must de- edian without a peer. Auspices: Marine Biological Laboratory vise a plan for ''getting nch quick". For the next tnree years the plays Kapid action followed and vnthin a were given in Community Hall. In 1 —THE ROBBERY—a comedy by Clare Kummer montn tne first M. B. L. production, IdH'A tne progi'am consisted of ''The moaestly called "An Entertainment," Pot-Boiler", Workhouse Ward", "The was presented to a highly apprecia- Plate". first CHARACTERS and "The Willow The tive audience, and $22V was received mentioned was most fin- perhaps the (In order of appearance) by the club. The necessity of raising ished of all the plays which have yet enthusiastic de- Fielding L. C. Fogg more money and the been given, with the parts taken by mand for another play resulted in a Dr. Edie Upton Bobbie Rich Mrs, Lowtner, Dr. Lanton and second production in IdZl even more Lefevre, all actors. The accomplished Bob Hamilton D. F. Robertson successiul than the first. scenery for "The Willow Plate", de- John Upton C. E. McClung i:l,»74.oO hau been turned over for the Glasers to the tune 4.—THE DRUMS OF OUDE, a melodrama, by Austin Strong arranged by ciuD uses. Tne porch was completely Gallagher", in which Mr. of "Mr. CHARACTERS paid lor and tne remainder trans- Gray, Capt. Veeder, and Alfred Hil- Stewart, a sentry Jack Fogg ferred to a savings account to be used ton appeared on the stage for the Captain McGregor P. H. Mitchell lor special improvements for the first time. Club. One of tnese, the redecorating Last year the plays were given in Sargeant MacDougal W. W. Cranford of tne interior of the Clubhouse, is the new M. B. L. Auditorium. ''The Lieutenant Hartley W. F. Hahnert now in progress. The Club has for Philosopher of Butterbiggens", "The Mrs. Clayton Lida Brannon several years borne the expense of Medicine Show", and "The Raft", Hindustan Servants P. W. Bowman, repairing and transporting tne bath- were presented, with beautiful music ing raft, and is now sponsoring the between acts Wilson and A. S. Eichorn by Nancy newest venture of the M. B. L. the Lull. can still hear the Scene : Interior of palace occupied British Barbara We by in India, publication of "The Collecting Net", wails of Dr. Linton, the Philosopher, it IS now suggested that a West porch while for atmosphere, none of the 5.—THE COURTSHIP OF MILES STANDISH be built, and the need is evident after plays has surpassed "The Medicine (in modern dress) the last two evening dances. To Show". It would be difficult to de- nelp make this and later necessary three Mc- John J. J. Murphey cide which of the — Dr. improvements the Club will need ad- Clung, Dr. Lyon, or Dr. Simpson, por- Priscilla Miss Impi Arvo aitional financial support. This can traying Mississippi River characters, best be given tnrougn patronage of looked the most disreputable. Per- 6.—THE SAME OLD THING, a farce, by Roi Cooper McGrue the play to be presented this year, haps the prize should be given to Dr. CHARACTERS wnicii promises to be a greater suc- Lyon, whose costume came in part cess than tnose of ail preceding years. from the village dump, and in part Julia Elsie Bosmeisl as a result of dragging the pond be- She Janet Spaulding excellent surface is usually too moist hind the Lyon's Den. The balls soon become The Other Man H. S. Fry for fast play. The success of the plays has de- Qiscoiored and heavy, so that the He R. M. Ellsworth pended as much upon the workers be- greatest problem at present before Author F. Hollander hind the scenes as upon the actors. tne Club is the improvement of these A small army is required for direct- Scene: Her Boudoir. courts. Experiments are now plan- ing, making scenery, costumes and ned to determine whether tile drain- curtains, arranging lights, handling COMMITTEES age will suffice to keep them dry, or advertising, ticket sale, programs, wnether it will be necessary to build posters, and ushering. It is doubtful General Chairman E. R. and E. L. Clark tnem up by a liberal use of cinders there is to any- is whether be found Direction A. Keefe, Dorothy Glaser, E. L. Clark with a new surface on top. It where a more willing or efficient to use for this purpose any Scenery A. Hutton Vignoiles, R. C. McGaun, L. S. Rowell, planned group for such community enter- that may come to the Club in Eleanor Sloan. funds prises than in Wood's Hole. Need the near future. we add that the third essential, an Stage—Curtain: F. E. Chidester, C. A. Packard, E. A. Martin, The Club conducts an annual tour- intelligent and appreciative audience, D. E. Lancefield, M. Copeland. nament which brings out keen com- can always be counted on in Wood's petition in all events. Cups are pre- Costumes:. . .Mrs. D. J. Edwards, Mrs. Edwin Linton, Mrs. I. F. Lewis, Hole? sented to the winners in the singles Mrs. Meigs, Thelnia Holmes, Dora.s Weston, Katherine Jeffers. matches, and in the mixed doubles Properties: Elizabeth Kinney, THE TENNIS CLUB Marie Fish, Harriet Walker, H. S. the names of the winners ai-e in- Morton, May McKay, Madeline Field, Helen Dver, Ruth Lynch, scribed on the Strong Cup, a perma- W. H. DoUey. nent trophy given by William Strong The M. B. L. Tennis Club had its and kept in the Laboratory offices in Lighting: s. E. Pond, W. R. Duryee simple beginnings more than a quar- the Brick Building. Business Publicity:. .D. J. Edwards, E. R. Clark, R. Bennitt, ter of a century ago when Oliver C. Morrill, The liberal support given the Strong initiated play on the the level I. F. Lewis, Myra Sampson, Edith Elliot, Mary Howe, Marjorie Tennis Club by the Players' Club has .ground where the Mess Court now Boyd, Helen Miller, W. W. Crawford, etc. been for yeai's one of the strongest stands. This pre-cultural or Old factors in affording good tennis fa- Gravel period culminated in 1913, cilities at a reasonable cost to work- when the present Mess court was con- Hcskins, and I. F. Levris drew up a the players and the cordial backing ers at the Laboratory. structed with the liberal aid of Ben- pan of re-organization which was given by summer residents on Pen- jamin Strong. put into effect. zance and elsewhere in the neighbor- TICKET SALE As Oliver Strong gradually with- As attendance on the Laboratory hood. Three courts were built on Tickets for the plays will be placed drew from active play it became evi- grew it was felt that more courts land near the Breakwater Hotel pur- on sale at the M. B." L. Club Fiiday dent that a more formal organization were needed, and a successful effort chased from the Fay Estate in 1922. at 9 A. M. Prices: reserved seats, was needed. In 1917 a committee, to raise money for this purpose was There Beach courts lie too low for $1.25 and $1.00; unreserved seats, compo.sed of D. J. Edwards, E. R. carried through by the exertions of good natural drainage, so that the $.75.

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Dr. Micliaelis Talks on must be as carefully controlled by a geneticist, as was illus- NATIONAL RESEARCH Seriii-Permeable Membrane trated in the study of such char- acters as "abnormal abdomen" COUNCIL MEETING (Continued from Page 4) and "reduplicated legs" in Orosophila. The the isoelectric point the mem- The chromosomal mechanism customary summer meet- Special ommittee ses.sions of ing brane is positive, anions can that produces two sexes under of the executive committee groups having charge of certain of the penetrate, cations are retarded, certain "normal" conditions may Division of Biology and of tlie division's projects will and the more dilute solution is give quite a different result un- Agriculture of the National Re- also occur around this date. negatively charged. der other conditions. For ex- .enzymes may play the de- ciding OLD Genetics and Development role at any stage in the LECTURE HALL development of an organism. But MR. LLOYD RODS, between such enzymes and | . (Continued from Page Representatives 1) the primary controllers of de MR. C. H. ASH ( velopment, the genes, there is variations and variations due to prcbablv often a very long chain changes m environment are su- of reactions, though it is possi- perficially indistinguishable. In ble that some enzymes are di SPENCER LENS COMPANY the study of the size that Prin- )-ectly synthesized by the genes cess beans attain by growth, the in the course of their own BUFFALO, N. Y. genetic variations are reduce growth activities or during the practically to zero by self-ferti- so-called resting phase. lization which is the normal The emphasis put by various r?^ propagation of this method of writers such as Robertson upon bean. Johannsen thus able was the roughly sigmoid curves that ^o show precisely what was the seem to hold for the data of effect -jf differences in environ- many phases of growth was ment, and furthermore, was able Scientific criticized on the ground that the Instruments to demonstrate the stability of processes involved are often so the hereditary factors gen- from complex that such curves can eration to generation. have little more than descriptive for Biological In tobacco the puzzling physi- Research value. The nature of the rates ological problem of self-sterility of increase of populations, of in- was simplified by East's demon- dividuals, of organs, of cells and stration that three distinct but probably of most cell-organs arc- allelomorphic types of plant ex- ^ of this highly complex nature. isted. The failure to self-ferti- Conceivably, however, the lize could then be shown to be growth of the gene is of a sim- to the slower rate of due growth pler, more purely chemical, na- of the Send for Catalog pollen tubes where certain ture. Certainly the governing genetic constitutions were pres- agency of the synthesis of the ent. gene lies within the gene, which, The complex data known for in this special limited sense may i the increase of vigor cross- upon be said to grow by autocatalsi.s ing and the decline of that vigor C. B. B. ;upon inbreeding have been re- duced to relatively simple Men- Bausch & Lomb Optical Co. delian terms, and the problem Dr. E. J. Conklin, professor of put in shape for more purely biology at Princeton university, Executive Offices and Manufactory physiological investigation, some arrived in New York on Satur- of which has been carried out. day, July 31, on the Aquitania. Rochester, N. Y. On the other hand, the factors He will come down to Woods with which the physiologist Hole to attend the meeting of deals, temperature, time, etc., the trustees of the laboratorv. PAGE SIX THE COLLECTING NET

Proifoelhelmathcoida possible and stop as -few of the 2. —Use the tap with the finest nozzle. Dr. and Mrs. JuHus Bronfon- H20 globules as we could. Need- 3. —Place the nozzle upon the dish. brenner are rejoicing in the ar- less to say none of us were re- 4. —Holding the dish in the left hand, rival of a daughter, now about (Continued from Page 1) markably successful; so that we turn on the water with the two weeks old. Dr. Bronfon- right. (Care should be taken just about as damp as our brenner is in charge of the brate course subjected to this were to give the cock a vigorous Limulus course work in bacteriology this terrific expression. own great-grandfather and complete half turn.) we arrived. But the Nortli summer at the University of The invertebrates found out when 5. —Attempt to catch the falling dish flats proved to be the Chicago. last weel< that there are Falmouth with the right hand and show populated fields yet some effort to arrest stream- and worms, yea. and yet! most thickly "worms nozzle with left hand. The house of Dr. and Mrs^ visited perfect hordes of scal- ing (A more worms" to cover the world little practice wi'l be required Kenneth A. Rice in the Gansett OP^- fi^dl^'' ""abs clams ma- for the first foot underground. to master this change of region is nearing completion and nassa obseleta, and bit- The second fact that has beenilampas. hands.) occupied the Rice encountered and this will soon be by ; ' tmm were 6. drawings startling us is the discomfort- —When neighboring and family. t a case of It sufficiently ing knowledge that Annelid time it wasn 1 dresses have been could only find something" but spotted with salt water, retire anatomy may be just as compli- quickly and quietly to your Dr. E. G. Conklin who is mak- "If I could onlij identify all the cated to handle as a one man place. ing a trip around the world has things I've found." Coming row-boat out in the Hole. But 7. Repeat exercise twice each day. been heard from in China. so proud of our- — the circulatory system of areni- back we were that the sun burst forth cola proved so interesting to two selves our dampness and to _ evaporate members of the class that they ! Hallelujah chorus. actually stayed away from mess in the WHEN LOOKING FOR RELIABLE MERCHANDISE and hash for fifteen minutes to After four days delving into TRY finish a dissection. (Speaking the intricacies of Arthropoda of scientific enthusiasm and we have decided that lobsters as are denying the flesh.) But our dis culinary field of operation ARENOVSKI'S a sport for the m- sections were made in fear and | far too tame The Home of so we must needs trembling when Dr. Martin told j vertebrates, they go about the us in no uncertain terms that I discover how HART SCHAFFNER & MARX CLOTHING insteail "This is the first year for a long process of mastication I LAMfON & HUBBARD HATS time that we have been able to of performing the same rite on secure enough arenicola for them. And, when we speak of PRINTZESS SUITS, COATS AND DRESSES we become so tangled everybody—so remember, no one Limulus Everything in the Way of Sport Clothes can have a second helping!" No up in his nerve ring that we wonder our hands shook and one gaze delightedly at the simple Walk-Over Shoes* Busycon. Simple? member of the class almost died spirals of SATISFACTION GUARANTEED OR MONEY REFUNDED of shock when she discovered .Just wait until we have waded ventral in- through his nervous system on that she had made a FALMOUTH :-: :-: MASS. stead of a dorsal incision. Monday and then we may have But we did take time off from an entiVelv different story to the nereis pelagica and arenicola tell. to go to Kettle Cove. That is Anyone who finds his labora- we thought we were going to tory "work interfering with his Kettle Cove, but the winds and tennis, swimming, picnicking, or is reminded that THE Captain Veeder decided that we other business later in the were not going that far ; so much there is always time "to the glory of the skipper and evening to dissect another areni- the discomfiture of the inverte- cola. are m SCI ENTI FIC brates" (for reference see R. C. All invertebrates who Parker) we were deposited on a the habit of promenading in the requested either "shoreless coast" four miles i laboratory are balloon from the cove. Then one feeble |to equip themselves with MONTH LY go bare-foot for member of this cross country ex- ! tires or else to have been pedition a.sked Dr. Dawson 1 microscopic animals tremors plaintively "How far is it?" Hejso frightened by the FOR AUGUST individuals of a cleverly comforted, as he winked 1 caused by these that they at Dr. Cole, "Only a mile or .so." I weighty reputation The Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research. Professor John Then, that "so" turned out to be have stampeded and broken sev- M. Coulter. | three solid up and down hill jeral cover-glasses, Parrots At Home. Dr. Alexander Wetmore. you have heard a it biologically I miles; but was not Perhaps Hunting Bighorn With a Camera. Dr. Vernon Kellogg. unfruitful, because we succeeded 'donkey bray? No doubt you The Progress of Public Health In China. Dr. Reginald M. Atwater. in convincing one biologist that 'know the sound of a foghorn Shropshire sheep could not and Surely vou are familiar with the Politics and the Public Health. James A. Tobey. never can be goats. Woods "Hole fire signal. But Excursions In Experimental Psychology. Professor Raymond Dodge. invertebrate Then Friday Dr. Bissonnette have you heard the The Birth of Modern Science. John K. Robertson. and the fifty-five invertebrates soprano? The Friendship of Two Old-Time Naturalists. J. S. Wade. plunged into the Bryozoa for a Dr. Bennitt insists that the Geologic Romance of the Finger Lakes. Professor Herman L. good day's work. Did you know color of the Portuguese Man-of- Fairchi' d. that Lepralia boasts key holes War is ultra-violet. Radio Talks Science: The Planet Mars, James Stokjey; How that will never be .scratched up Dr. Dawson and Captain On Plants Behave When Diseased, Professor B. M. Duggar. by a fumbling key and Hydroides Veeder have decided that, in or- Fraser sports colors that would reduce der not to overload the Caya- The Peculiarities of the Sensation of Cold. Professor D. Harris. anv bathing beach "to a panic" detta, lunches shall be left on the field Queer Kettle; Pro- (.see H. McClellan for that ex- wharf on the remaining The Progress of Science: Electric Farming; A fessor Lucien Gallois; Variation of the Sun's Heat. pression). Twelve hours after trips. we had fini.shed up that job, we Then we stated last week that were setting out in a cool, clam- Guy Horseley took Lida Bran- THE SCIENCE PRESS my, damp and slightly moist non to Falmouth for a hair cut GARRISON, N. Y. Woods Hole rain for North Fal- but failed to mention the fac;- LANCASTER, PA. rode gaily homeward mouth. We felt like ship- that they GR.AND CENTRAL TERMINAL. N. Y. CITY wrecked mariners holding out in a butcher's delivery wagon. our tongues to catch the precious How to draw salt water in the Yearly Subscription $5 Three Months $1 Single Copies 50c rain drops, only our object this lab: time Mas to be as microscopic a.s 1. — Choose as flat a di.sh as possible. THE COLLECTING NET PAGE SEVEN CHILDREN'S SCHOOL Hair Cuts Shaves FALMOUTH OF SCIENCE Ladies' Bobbing Ding! Dong! Came the famil- RESTAURANT 'Woods Hole, general science, iar sound from the little old i animal biology, insects, plant MAIN ST., FALMOUTH schoolhcLise. The children of A. J. LEVESQUE

I biology, and nature and Woods Hole blinked. What devel- of plants. trips MainS treet Wood Hole H. TOYOTA, MgT. I opment Field could it mean? School in the

I are taken occasionally that the summer? They hastened to find children may see and study the out. I Chicken, Steak, Chops, I plants in their natural environ- Tel. 19-4 Water Waving It the summer of 1912 was ment. when a group of energetic wo- I Fish- school is SAKSOUCl & CARRAGHER j Truly the summer namelj-, Mrs. J. P. War- men, somethiug which Woods Hole BARBER SHOP basse, Mrs. T. H. Morgan, Mrs. Chop Suey and Chow Main should boast of, and heartily Falmouth, Mass. R. Crane, and Mrs. F. Lillie, C. support, for the study of science Scientific Scalp Treatment their had met to consolidate Open G:30 .A.. to ! brings one to a greater realiza- Hairdressing- Marcel Waving M. 11:00 P. M. carefully wrought plan into aii tion of life and of the many Shampooing Facials being that was to have Manicuring active — wonderful phenomena of our school for the chil- a summer busv world. dren of the town and the chil- I Helen Jennings. Compliments of dren of the faculty members, where, under careful guidance. Bug Hunters! We hear that it is a matter of PENZANCE GARAGE they might spend a few hours - Don't all over only a fev,' hours until wedding chase •each morning combining play WOODS HOLE, MASS. bells will peal forth for Dr. town for food for your with work in an educational Charles Parmenter. All we can beach parties. We way. The school started with Day or Night A. L. A. say is, we wonder how he es- have everything in our .a fairly large enrollment. caped this long! store next to the Post Phone 652. Towing , Science, singing and dancing Office were the main subjects taught, Dr. and Mrs. W. H. Addison with slight stress upon the FRESH BREAD, MEAT and their daughter Agnes are science. That first year there and ALL traveling in Europe this sum- CANNED was also a kindergarten class, a Estate of M. H. WALSH mer. They expect to spend most GOODS singing class for parents in the ROSE SPECIALIST of their time in Stockholm. QUICK SERVICE evening, and anything desired WOODS HOLE was taught. A pageant was LOW PRICES Miss Emilie Vicari, who has held at the end of the year. Roses Shrubs been teaching at Sweetbriar Col- Each year the enrollment Morrison's Market lege in Virginia, will be at Cor- Perennials Evergreen .grew, and for the last several Woods Hole. nell Medical next year. Planting and Pruning .years it has been approximately Mass. 100. The character of th(- Dr. Mary Mills Patrick is school has changed too, and is spending the summer in Woods now called "The Children's Hole. Dr. Patrick who has spent School of Science," a school foi SAMUEL CAHOON many years in Turkey as presi- the study of natural history un- Wholesale and Retail dent of Constantinople College is der the directio'^ of the Woods engaged in preparing a book on Dealer in Hole School Associa- Summer the Greek Stoics. tion. An executive committee Fish and Lobster.s with chairmens of the commit- Dr. Hallowell Davis, instrucl- Woods Hole Tel. 660 - 661 tees have direct management or of physiology at the Harvard 1 CLOTHES Falmouth - 32;' of the school,' and are glad to Medical School, and his family receive suggestions relative to were in Woods Hole from I PRESSED the work from members of the i Tuesday to Friday of last DYED association. Parents are re- Est. 1892 1 week. ALTEFVEE* Phone 410 quested to join the association Ofeljy/eries ; and membership is also open to Professor Michaelis was asked HAIR DRESSER anyone interested in the school. by one of our Woods Hole ladies Shingling and Bobbing "The latter is supported by vol- how he ever thought up his bril- untary subscriptions and by a liant experiments. The secret CHAS. H. NUGENT •guarantee fund. All children of his success is due to the fact, formerly L. L. Eldridge over seven years of age are elig- 'he said, that he had nothing else Woods Hole Near Drawbridge ible. At the end of the term to do. there is always a "Parents' Day" when the work of each Dr. B. M. Duggar left last class will be explained by the jweek for Ithaca, where he will Special Closing Out Sale

pupils and illustrated by the col- I remain until after the Interna- lections, apparatus, selected tional Congress of Plant Sciences M. DOLINSKY & CO. of which is being held at Cornell leaves from note books, etc. A Tailors University between August 16 HARDWARE complete schedule extends over i twelve weeks. The teaching and 2.3. Dr. Duggar is general MAIN STREET staff this year consists of Miss secretary of the congress. EASTMAN'S WOOD'S HOLE, MASS. Alice E. Clarke and Miss Kath- MAIN ST., FALMOUTH r ine A. Clarke, both from the WOODS HOLITES! Friend's School, Baltimore, Md.;

I Mr. Henry E. Wondergen, East w High School, Rochester, N. Y. THE ENTERPRISE ; and Mr. Rosseter D. Olmstead, while you are at Woods Hole this Summer. W C DAVIS-COMPANY chief of staff. Children's Uni- Published every Saitiirday. versity School, New York City. 3 Months, 75c ffOME The courses taught are natuie THE ENTERPRISE FURNISHERS study, plant life of Woods Hole, FALMOUTH, MASS. FALMOUTH MASS birds and their nests, animals oi =a PAGE EIGHT THE COLLECTING NET

he immediately undertook the EMBRYOS "'US cultures that Dr. Plough so- ALGAE I practical solution of his prob- carefully prepared will be appre- the usual gener- iciated and the informer amply The botanists last week were lem and with parts, was The lectures for the week are 1 rewarded. prepared for their weekly cruise osity shown in these on the Annelids, Mollusca, and did have a good story on. apparatus j We but their hopes were dashed to given all the scientific needed. Tunicates, Dr, Graves gave the Bob Climenko but as he refused and equipment that was ^ an untimely death when the ga'- Mol- or six pennies lectures on Annelids and 1 to have his name in the article. lant skipper reported a north- In 1923, five laboratory table lusca on Tuesday, Wednesday . in any connection other than the- easter blowing, a sinking baroia- were left on a explanation. Thesf and Thursday. Dr. Plough will treat he gave we will have to eter, squalls in the offing, a ty- with no found gradu- lecture on the Tunicates on Fri- forego the pleasure. phoon just behind Pine Island pennies have been number until day and Saturday mornings. Mary Catherine has a new. and a waterspout in the Eel ally increasing in there were On Friday, .July 30, Dr. E. E. room and a new roommate. Pond. The trip was called otT at "the last counting Just lectured on the phenomena and the lunch bequeathed to the 3S5 of them. has arrived of fertilization. zoologists, but Dr. Hazen, fear- Mr. Fogg as yet conclusion as to great part of the last week TENNIS ing the effect of so great a dis- at no definite A of this phenome- in anticipation of the appointment, gave us a little quiz the exact cause was spent It be the theory that class picnic which was held to make up for it. Like the Boy non. may Except for the men's doubles- or the origin 2. the Scouts, he maintains that "Be "like attracts like," Monday, August Though |all the tournaments are up to the that in the life weather was a bit discouraging Prepared" in his personal opin- may reoresent finals. Monday, Aug. 2, the of certain algae where and the heavy fog made it ad- ion is an excellent motto. He histories Lancefields play Iglehart and. give rise to a held the picnic at says that his classes are accus- a single cell may viseable to Lewis. Miss Iglehart, as soon later an expanded Kettle Cove rather than at Tar- tomed to being questioned at any filament and as this match is played off, will. Mr. Fogg stated the most time, and he feels that they colonial form. paulin Cove, day was a leave for Southampton where theory was per- due should be prepared to go collect- that the second successful one. Thanks are friends are an.xiously awaiting, although no Veeder for the prep- ing at any time. If you should fectly possible to Captain her delayed arrival. Field and zoospores of tho bounteous feed. see our budding algologists next quadriciliate aration of a Holt were to have played Thurs- been found week carrying buckets to mess, Casteria type had Space will not allow the full ac dav, July 29, thus finishing the the pile. Our or wearing bathing suits to lec- swarming around count of the menu but there ladies' singles, but the rain pre- we're own belief is that the old theory really was nothing lacking. A ture, it doesn't mean that | vented the game. Lancefield and spontaneous generation has group around the fire eagerly out "on location" but that we're of j Lewis again come together for summarily. prepared for almost anything. been disposed of too persuaded Dr. Packard to telllthe men's single as thev have willing to We are perfectly the famous story of "Hubert and so before. This week started off with :; {done often Because this field of investigation the Frog." A number of the collecting tour de luxe aboard leave of the departure of Mr. and Mrs. open to anyone interested, and party, wishing to mitigate the the S. S. Caijadetta to Cutty- Speidel, the men's doubles be- a consideration of the effects of the hearty meal, hunk and Black Island. The turn to came somewhat involved, but as disposal of this material. Mr. walked back to Hadley Harbor trip was a great success with it stands now. Patten and Pat- Fogg suggested turning the pile where they were picked up by the buckets and bottles fillecl, ten plav Strong and Harvey in to the one with the best the Cayadetta on the return Helen Brown's knee sprained, over the semi-finals. Lancefield and suggestions for its disposal. .lourney. and several bad cases of sun- Inmas play the winners. own idea was to test some burn reported. Speaking of Our Mrs. Climenko is visiting her "end to end" statistics. the botany department of these son, Robert. sunburn, buying lob- Dr. Lewis suggests Sidney Britten went to Mar- Professor Leon A. Hausman, strongly recommends picric j sters some Monday night. Per- acid, it soothes, heals, and im- blehead, Saturday, to meet his of Rutgers University, has re- however, the best idea parts a pleasing canary tint to haps, mother who returned with him. cently been made the science- would be not to kill the golden the affected parts. Mrs. Britten will spend some editor of Cowiiton's Pictured the quadriciliate zoo- Monday evening, what was goose or time at Woods Hole with Dr. Newspaper of Chicago. He has spores or whatever is at the bot- left of the gallant boataneers at- and Mrs. Knowlton. [also been invited to contribute the thing, but to let it go tended the seminar addressed by tom of Information concerning the studies of mammal hair and fur until we can build a botany Dr. Fish of the fish commission, on residence of the person who onlto the revised edition of the nearer the beach and have spoke on "Life in the Open lab Sunday destroyed the gonione- 'Encyclopaedia Britannica. who surrounded with ten- Ocean as Seen from the Arctur- it entirely nis courts. us." Afterwards a very juicy party was held up in the lab, consisting of steamed Mijtili and Uncatena Adrift watermelon. The Elizabeth Theatre Still .another event, not with- (Continued from Page 1) out marked significance, is the FALMOUTH, MASS. "coming out" into terpsichorean second one carrying her pet circle;^ of one of our revered Peckinese. Then the crew pro- HIGH CLASS PHOTOPLAYS as great staff. .The debut came a ceded to unload the cars, after Show Starts at 7.45 — Feature Picture at 8.30 surprise to all concerned and which the rest of the passen- Short Reels Repeated After the Feature Picture. great things are expected. gers disembarked. A COMPLETE SHOW AFTER 8.30 This week's seminar will bo A hurry call was sent to Saturday Two Shows at 7.00 and 9.00 O'clock on "Mosaic Diseases »nd Leaf Vineyard Haven which result- Matinees Monday, Wednesday and Saturday at 2.30 Variegations" with Dr. Fanny ed in the Pequot's being dis- Fern Smith officiating in the patched forthwith. This took FRIDAY, AUGUST 6th, 1926 double capacity of lecturer and over the task of transporting "SPORTING LOVER" lord high purveyor of the fudge. the otherwise disappointed with CONWAY TEARLE Treasure Trove passsngei-s to their destination. 7th, 1926 For four weeks we have been Back On Schedule SATURDAY, AUGUST started puzzled by a pile of mouldy Workmen at once "STILL ALARM" pennies lying on Mr. Fogg's repairing the break in the rod SPEEDING FIRE HORSES THRILLING RESCUES the It is the Master of All Fire Dramas table, and finally we nerved up and early this morning enough courage to ask the why Uncatena .sailed directly for MONDAY, AUGUST 9th. 1926 and wherefor of the accumula- Edgartown, reaching there a- "ELLA CINDERS" to tion—this is the story. bout four. She returned with COLLEEN MOORE schedule time In 1923, Mr. Fogg, deciding New Bedford on :45. 10th, 1926 that investigation was the occu- and left on return trip at 9 TUESDAY, AUGUST pation of the elite at Woods "PALS FIRST" Hole, decided to test with theory r-. Morton McCutcheon has WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11th, 1926 that money attracts money. bee" appointed assistant pro- "STELLA DALLAS" Like the eminent Skeptics Club, fessor of pathology. VOL. 1. NO. 4 WOODS HOLE, MASS., THURSDAY, AUGUST 12 TEN CENTS

Dr. Jacobs Selected at Meeting Laboratory Activities WILLIAM J. RING 1839-1926 of Trustees to Succeed Dr. William J. Ring, aged 87 years, Friday, August 13, 8:00 P. M. the third oldest man in Falmouth Evening Lecture. "Biology and the oldest resident of the village Students in British Guiana" by Lillie as Director of M. B. L. of Woods Hole, passed away at the Dr. H. D. Fish, professor of home of his daughter, Mrs. John L. zoology. University of Pitts- Condon, Wednesday, August 4, after burg'h. (Illustrated) Open to an illness of about two weeks. Mr. the PuMic. At the meeting of the Trustees of the Marine Biological Ring had previously enjoyed excel- Laboratory on Tuesday, August 10, Dr. Frank R. Lillie lent health, and had lived for some pre- years with his daughter, Mrs. John Investigators Picnic sented his resignation as Director of the laboratory. This posi- L. Condon, who is his sole survivor. tion has been held continuously by Dr. Lillie since 1908. Under He was a veritable source of in- his able administration the laboratory has become the leading A picnic for M. B. L. inves- formation, and enjoyed telling stor- institution of its kind in the world. His resignation does not ies of his early sea faring life, of tigators and their families has mean his withdrawal from participation in the general affairs Woods Hole in the old days vsrhen a person coming to the village came been arranged for August 16th. of the laboratory for he remains as president of the corporation; either by boat or by stage coach. The Caijadetta will leave the and the executive committee is to define the respective duties of Mr. Ring was well educated and president and director. well informed, having been at one wharf opposite the Brick Build- time an accountant, and his travels ing at 10:30 and 11:30 for Tar- Dr. Merkel Jacobs has been had given him a wonderful store of associate director for the past F. P. Knowlton, Syracuse paulin Cove. Return trips will knowledge. year and was appointed by University. well liked Metcalf, Oberlin, Ohio. He was well known and be made at 3:30 and 4:30. the trustees to succeed Dr. M. M. by the people of Woods Hole most William Patten, Dartmouth Those who wish to go on this Lillie. Dr. Jacobs is professor of whom had known him since early College. childhood. picnic should sign up on the of general physiology at the W. B. Scott, Princeton Uni- William Ring was one of the most form posted on the bulletin University of Pennsylvania and versity. intresting characters of Woods Hole. board of the vestibule of the is the author of extensive papers dulled his Dr. Woodruff Elected to Time had apparently not Brick Building. in his field. For some time Dr. memory, for in rich brogue betraying Important Positions would recall Captain Veeder has offered to Jacobs has been in charge of his Iri'sh ancestry, he Dr. L. L. Woodruff, professor the dates and places of events that help make the picnic a success the physiology course at the of protozoology at Yale Uni- took place in his boyhood. Snowy and will have clams and coffee laboratory. white whiskers formed a contrasting cooked on board the Cayadetta. versity succeeds Dr. Calkins as border to the ruddy glow of his Trustees Reelected Clerk of the Corporation. Dr. thiek-lensed The only expense connected with cheeks; and behind his The follov/ing scientists were Woodruff was also elected to the spectacles his eyes twinkled as he the trip will be for the clams, to elected by the members of the position of Secretary, p?-o tem, recalled the days' when he was a cover which expense a collection Corporation to serve as Trustees of the Trustees. sailor. will be taken up on the boat. on until 1930. Lawrason Riggs, Jr. re- Mr. Ring was born in Ireland All are expected to supply their was 1839, and when a young E. G. Conklin, Princeton May 14, own sandwiches, watermelon, elected treasurer of the Corpora- man 1865 went to New York. He University. tion, worked in Philadelphia and Boston lobsters or whatever is desired. Otto C. Glaser, Amherst Col- for a year and on December 19, 1868, Coffee will be furnished by the i-/' sinter? of Executive lege. came to Woods Hole to make his M. B. L. Club, but not cups and Committee Appointed home. For 20 years he was employed Ross G. Harrison, Yale Uni- spoons. Dr. Casv/ell Grave, professor at the Guano Works on Penzance versity. which is renierabered by the In case of of zoology at Washington Uni- Point change of plans H. S. Jennings, Johns Hop- older inhabitants of Woods Hole. of any investigator after Thurs- versity and Dr. Otto C. Glaser, After giving up this woi-k he was kins University. d.ny when the form for signing professor of zoology at Am- made foreman on the Woods Hole hersit College district roads, and was active in this will be removed from the Bul- v/ere elected to work until only five years ago. letin Board, please notify some The Tide in the Hole succeed Dr. Conklin and Dr. Funeral services were held from member of the committee which Stockard whose terms automat- St. Joseph's Church in Woods Hole includes Mrs. Mavor, Mrs. Mc- At the following hours the ically terminate this year. Friday morning. In- at 9 o'clock on Cutcheon, Miss Guthrie, Dr. current in the Hole turns to The Executive Committee of terment was in St. Joseph's Ceme- run from tery in Falmouth. Copeland and Mr. Svenson. Buzzards Bay to the laboratory is now com- Vineyard Sound: posed of the following trustees: Frank R. Lillie, NATIONAL ACADEMY Aug. 12 7:59 A.M. Ex. off. Chair- Aug. 13 8:46 A.M. man. Wei! Known impersonator to MEMBERS WORK HERE Aug. 14 9:31 A.M. Merkel H. Jacobs, Ex. Off. Appear In Woods Hole Aug. 15 10:18 A.M. Lawrason Riggs, Jr., Ex. Off. T. H. Morgan, to serve until Among the investigators Aug. 16 11:10 A.M. Aug. 17 11:55 1927. Coming—Monday, August 16, working in the Marine Biolog- A.M. 18 I. F. Lewis, to serve until 8:00 p. m. ical Laboratory this summer are Aug. 12:18 P.M. 1927. Elizabeth Gurrell Whiting, eight members of the National Aug. 19 1:10 P.M. Caswell Grave, to serve until impersonator, presenting "The Academy of Sciences. In each case the current 1028. Man From Home" at the Woods The National Academy has at changes six hours later and Otto C. Glaser to serve until Hole Community Hall. Admis- present two hundred and twenty runs from the Sound to the J9:s-. sion $1.00. Proceeds for benefit Bay. of E. Church. M. (Continued on Page 5) (Continued on Page 4) PAGE TWO THE COLLECTING NET

well more than equal to the occasion, was presented by William Strong ers were stroking the ball TENNIS rallies seemed making many fine returns from and which resides permanently and many of the interminable. The next two the net. Lancefield played a in the Main Building. Lewis Wins Men's Singles games followed service and the strong overhead and serving Lewis Triumphs 6-2. game and the combined offen- Miss Field Defeats set was Miss Field's at so often be- sive of this team, aided by a As has happened With a lead of 3-2 in the Mrs. Holt Woods Hole tennis his- decided unsteadiness on the part fore in second set, Mrs. Holt won two Lewis and D. E. of the Pattens, enabled them to Last week witnessed the com- tory, I. F. long deuce games. Coming from came together in the pull out a victory after two pletion of all the matches in the Lancefield behind and playing carefully of the men's singles. hard-fought sets. 8-6, 7-5. The tennis tournament. With the finals Miss Field evened the match at interest centered in this results, then, completely vindi- plaving of the finuls in the wo- Great 5 all. Mrs. Holt's beautiful, which was played on the cate the early defeat of Speidel men's singles on Friday after- match, free-swinging backhand and Court at 4 P. M., Wednes- and Hitchcock at the hands of noon, August 6, there came to a Mess forehand drives were unerring- August 4, and a large and Lancefield and Inman, and to the formal close the most interesting day, ly accurate now and in the next was in attendance. latter team goes the Men's ami successful tennis season in eager gallery two games, and with them the Lancefield, winning the toss, Doubles Championship for 1926. the armals of Woods Hole. set at 7-5, were hers. event was chose the court, and Dr. Lewis The men's singles The third set saw Miss Field who, took the first game on his own won by Dr. Ivey F. Lewis as steady as ever while her op- Miss JefFers to Lecture serve. Lewis then broke thru playing his customary steady ponent, playing with abandon, Lancefield's service and, placing A lecture on "The City of and accurate game, defeated Dr. errors. Both accuracy, ran made frequent Rome" will be given Thursday in straight sets, with marvelous D. E. Lancefield players, altho adhering mainly evening, out the next three games. With August 13, at 8 o'clock to the back court, took the net in the the score 5-0 against him Lance- small lecture room of the Paired with Miss A. Iglehart, often and their fine placing steadied and won his own Marine Biological Laboratory, Dr. Lewis was also victor in the field drew repeated applause from the service. Then there followed a by Miss Mary Jeffers, of Bryn mixed doubles. This team de- large gallery. Breaking thru long deuce game, productive of Mawr. The admission charge feated Dr. and Mrs. Lancefield, 3-1 the fourth ^ tor a lead of m brilliant rallies, which will be 35 cents. 7-5, 6-4, and won the right to many game. Miss Field was never went to Lancefield. The I On Thursday evening, August have its name inscribed on the finaUv Lancefield's on again headed by her adversary 19, Miss Jeffers will give her Strong Cup, the permanent Sh game was playing care- who seemed to tire rapidly, and illustrated lecture on "The event which is service. He was trophy for this altho she dropped another game Mediterranean Labor- fully at this point, hitting deep Cruise." This kept in possession of the the set was easily hers by the to the corners, and against any is one of the most popular travel atory. score of 6-2. of superb stead- talks and is anticipated with Lancefield and Inman won the but a player have stemmed the Miss Field's splendid victory much pleasure. This .lecture men's doubles by a circuitous iness would turned defeat into is the more remarkable in that will be given in the Community route when they defeated the tide and Lewis, however, pos- it was gained over the strongest hall for the benefit of the Pattens in a semi-final match, victory. the necessary margin of set of entries that this event has Church of the Messiah, Woods 8-6, 7-5, after having previously sessed returning seeming- seen here in recent years. It is Hole. won their finals match with consistency, shots from all cor- sincerely hoped that she will re- Miss Jeffers and Dr. Florence Speidel and Hitchcock by the ly impossible the court, and ran out turn to grace Woods Hole tennis Peebles are spending the sum- score of 6-2, 6-3. ners of his own ser- courts in the future. mer at their home. The Lan- Miss Madeline Field emerged the ninth game on set at 6-3. tern, Gardiner Road. They have victorious from a splendid list vice for the Men's Doubles singles Games went with service in recently returned from a lecture of entries in the women's Such a discrepancy crept into the second set until the fourth trip to the Pacific coast. by virtue of a hard-earned win the progress of the two brackets match going game when Lewis broke thru over Mrs. Holt, the of this event that it seemed vir- 6-2. and led at 3-1. Lancefield brought to three sets, 6-2, 5-7, tually to meet itself coming CHEM ROOM REACTIONS the score to 3-2 with a brilliant Loses back. The lower half moved The Chem Crew thinks you re a Lancefield love game and Lewis retalliated pretty good sort. doubles match, spectac- rapidly and Speidel and Hitch- The mixed by uncorking the most But all cock found themselves up to the the same they have their which was played on Monday ular placing of the whole match. spout, final round before even the afternoon, August 2, drew a He had his opponent constantly When investigators, sage and wise. second round of upper bracket Make large audience. Lewis and Igle- on the run and was finding the such requests that take the matches had been completed. prize. hart got away to a good lead in lines and corners with machine- One great man, absorbed in his work, their opponents This delay in the upper half was the first set, but like precision. The sixth game .Sets up, asks for one rubber due to the delayed arrival of Dr. cork. soon tied the score and for half was his and Lancefield trailed Another, as great, nonchalantly and Newton Harvey who was paired a dozen games it was anybody's at 2-4. Making a determined placid, with William Strong. Lance- Wants half match. Lancefield seemed both- stand, Lancefield kept his power- a pint of pure Osmic field and also in this Acid, the damp court which Lewis's backhand in Inman were ered by ful serve on While ordering several hundred but bracket, and on the chance that cc.s slowed down the bounds, the next game. But to no avail Of solutions made with Baker's C. they might come thru it victor- played a very strong game over- What looked like sure service P.'s, iously they played a premature head. Lewis and Iglehart broke aces were returned from difficult From speaking of hundreds, his voice finals match against Speidel and still resounds. thru Mrs. Lancefield's low- angles for placements and Lance- Hitchcock, beating them 6-2, He orders Squibbs Ether, five hun- bounding serve in the eleventh field's returns were finding the 6-3. dred pounds. game, coming to the net to make net. The seventh and eighth They ask for preposterous dye com- sharp placements; the next games went to Lewis and with Strong and Harvey finally met binations, game, and with it the set at 7-5, them the set and the match. William and Bradley Patten in For chlorides and sulphates and such preparations. was their's on Dr. Lewis's serve. Final score: 6-3, 6-2. a second round match and lost But the thing that surpasses all radi- second set produced some to them by the score of 6-4, 6-4. The Miss Field Wins cal cubing of the finest tennis seen during These two teams were very Is—"A seven-foot length of solid the entire tournament. Both The final match in the women's evenly matched and the conflict, glass tubing!" sides made many placement aces. singles followed immediately which was played at the Strong We find odds and ends that not rare- ly amuse, Iglehart in particular tak- after the conclusion of the court on Penzance Point, was Miss Absent mindedly left but intended afternoon. productive of fast brilliant ing the net at every opportunity doubles on Friday and to use. and angling sharply for points. Miss Madeline Field, the dark tennis. From trick apparatus of the intricate The issue, as in the first set, horse of the tournament, met This brought the Pattens into type. And what they came down for, to seemed at no time certain, but and defeated Mrs. Holt, the the semi-finals against Lance- Perly's lost pipe. and brilliant stylist, 6-2, 5-7, 6-2. field and Inman. The meeting Lewis's superior steadiness when we've walked to the and Then down uncanny trimming of the lines Miss Field won her own between these two teams took very last rack proved the deciding factor, and Mrs. Holt's serve and led 2-0. place on the Mess court at 4 And brought the requested shape and the set went to Lewis and Igle- Games then went with service o'clock, Friday, August 6, and size back, And decided the next'll be a moment hart at 6-4. until 3-1, when Mrs Holt double- despite the damp condition of of ease. of the winners will faulted badly and trailed at 1-4 the court produced many thrills. The names Nay—lo! and behold! — it's — "An- now appear on the cup for the The sixth, a long deuce game: The Pattens directed their at- other one please." mixed doubles tournament which went to Miss Field. Both play- tack at Inman, who seemed pH. THE COLLECTING NET PAGE THREE

THE MESS AND greatest reaction from the audi- ITS ORGANIZATION Saturday Night Club ence. There were some, how- ever, to whom the play seemed Very few of us know how the Plays uninteresting, and scarcly mess grew with the laboratory. Success worthy of the costume of the Since the beginning of the M. B. leading lady! L. the number of people has The plays had a most appreci- Productions Enthusiastically Received ative mounted steadily from year to audience and we think the year. With this increase the by Capacity Audience committee is to be congratulated the capacity of the mess hall has on choice of plays some one been enlarged several times. In of which was bound to satisfy. A very worth while program picket fences and gay flowers. We believe of 1918 it was necessary to take on some the "high of presented Incidentally brows" as part of the dining room the one act plays was these two, R. C. Mc- who perhaps suffer from to full Gann. ;;nd L. P. the a strong artistic piazzas on both ends of the din- a and enthusiastic house Rowell made .sense would on Saturday evening in the M. scenery themselves which they have regarded the ing hall. The next increase is program if B. L. is the after shown by the fact that the old auditorium. This manipulated with such effect. A ending the fourth play as sixth year in a series of program of such little scenes better mess hall, which was burned to which balanced and more fin- plays has been given for would delightful evening ished. the ground on March 17, 1920 by and make a Of the many good pro- seated only 250 while the pres- the benefit of the M. B. L. and for young and old. grame which have been given ent mess hall seats 450 people. Tennis Clubs. The moving Frere Jacques, a roundel, en- this program was undoubtedly The number eating at the mess spirits behind these plays have acted by a group of children the best. d. M. been Dr. Clark with Peggy as Jacques, in 1920 was less than 250; now and Mrs. who Frere 530 people obtain their food have been unsparing in their was spontaneous and delightful there. time and efforts to provide plays to which the audience responded To better acquaint the diners and casts to satisfy all appetites. in chorus. These song plays of H. A. with those who prepare their When one considers the short were true artistic merit and DANIELS food we have printed below a period of rehearsal, often but we hope we will hear more of them. list of the entire service force: a few days and never more than WOODS HOLE two weeks, one is impressed by The melodrama, "The Drums Student Assistants—Ballard W. W.; Barth, L.; Beaver, P.; Borden. the efficient co-operation of of Oude" by Austin Strong was Mabel,; Britten, S. A.; Carpenter, groups producing the plays. full of suspense and mystery and Esther; Crawford, Mrs.; Crawford, The directing committee con- the atmosphere was well sus- W. W.; Daniel, G. E.; Gates, G. E.; sisting of Dr. Keefe, Mrs. tained throughout. The two lead- Healey, D. E.; Johnson, Helen; Kin- Glaser, and Mrs. Clark deliber- ing parts gave an opportunity ICE CREAM ney, Elizabeth; Lillie, W. M.; Lu,

H. L. ; Lucas, A. M.; Maclean, B. L.; ately chose a contrasting pro- for finished acting, and the parts McCoy, 0. R.; McGaun, R. C; Mc gram of high and low brow were ably portrayed by Miss Mullen, E. B.; Miller, Helen M.; plays so that all tastes would be Brannon and Dr. Mitchell. The Pinkston, J. O.; Rich, Robbins; Robb, satisfied. It is easy background of an Indian city R. C; Robertson, D. F.; Rowell, L. not an DRINKS S.; Shearer, E. M.; Woods, F. H.; matter to strike a happy medium was colorfully painted in relief Zeek, Pearl M. but it is the general opinion that by Mr. A. Hutton Vignoles. Mr. Mess Personnel — Brooks, Amy, in this occasion it has been done. and Mrs. Vignoles gave gener- Boston Univ., waitress; Coombs, Mrs. Long intermi.ssion for shifting ously of their holiday in Woods C. C, Cambridge, chambermaid; REFRESHMENTS Coombs, Eleanor, Cambridge H. S., scenery, the bugbear of most Hole to make this play a success. waitress; Coombs, Mrs. N. E., Boston, amateur theatricals were clever- In fact, the success of the entire stewardess; Currie, F. S., Cambridge ly avoided by providing the same program depended largely on H. S., asst. dish washer; Downing, the willing efficient Isabelle, Newton Highlands, head setting for all plays, the only and group waitress; Drown, Emma, Wellesley, variable parts being in the im- of helpers of whom there were general worker; Elliott, Thelma, mediate center stage and the over 100 including casts and Open from 8:30 A. M. Maryland Univ., waitress; Fisher, L. furniture. committees. Special thanks is J., Ridge Tech., house man; Gray, first due to Mr. Larkin for his able Until 11:00 P. M. Caroline, Cambridge H. S., waitress; The play, "The Robbery", Larson, John P., Cambridge, dish like most of Clare Rummer's assistance. packer; MacDougal, Mary, Boston, plays is full of light humor and Between the acts following general worker; Murphey, J. J., philosophizing. The cast was the melodrama Miss Katherine Rindge Tech., chief dish washer; Tyler gave a splendid rendering Naterman, H. L., Tufts Med., asst to well chosen and the parts were chef; Nordstrom, Knute A., Amherst, played with remarkable finish of a Symphonic Etlude by Schu- chef; Pease, Mrs. Mary, Florida, mann. Unfortunately pianos do considering the short period of H. MALCHMAN & BRO. pastry cook; Pond, Frances, Haver- rehearsal. Dr. McClung was tha not take kindly to sea air and hill, chambermaid; Pond, Mrs. F., outstanding actor and after a it was a gracious act for any Haverhill, chambermaid; Ricketts, THOMAS MALCHMAN, Mrs. F., Boston, waitress; Ricketts, few more annual appearances musician to play on this partic- F., (asst.) Boston, pastry cook ; should qualify for the legiti- ular one. Prop. Roche, Elizabeth, Ireland, chamber- mate stage. The background of Passing from the sublime to maid; Roche, Margaret, Boston, chambermaid; Tyler, A. R., Rutgers, this play deserves mention for the ridiculous the vaudeville skit gen. asst.; Young, Mrs. J., Woods its effective simplicity. entitled "The Courtship of Miles Clothiers, Hatters and Hole, chambermaid ; Young, Virginia, The French folk songs drama- Standish", while well perform- Newton H. S., waitress. tized by the children were the ed, seemed out of place to some. Furnishers The marriage of Miss Doro- most artistic plays on the pro- A large part of the audience thea Chambers, cousin of Dr. gram in the opinion of many. consisted of students who gave Robert Chambers and Mr. They were like quaint pictures the last two plays, "The Court- ship of Miles Donald Blaisdell, of New York out of a French nursery song Standish" and Main St. Falmouth City, will take place at the book. In "Au Clair de la Lune", "The Same Old Thing" which the Church of the Messiah, Woods Peggy Clark as Mon Ami, Pier- were rather of college type Hole, on Saturday afternoon, rot, showed her natural histri- of burlesque, a most enthusiastic reception. It was the purpose August 14. A reception will be onic powers to advantage while held afterwards for their imme- Vicky Glaser at the window was of the committee to end up the WOODS HOLITES! of diate friends at Bobtucket Cot- aided by nature in representing program with plays lighter tage. a toothless, irate Pierre. Shed- vein after the really worth ding one's front teeth at seven while Indian play. This fact THE ENTERPRISE while you are at Woods Miss Hilda E. Karns has just has some advantages. The scene explained the drop in the pro- Hole this Summer. returned from a visit to Weston, shifters were an important part gram and apparent discrepancy Published every Saturday. in type of plays presented. Mass. where she delivered a of the picture in their blue 3 Months, 75c lecture entitled "Toads in our smocks as they brought in the The last play, "The Same Old THE ENTERPRISE Gardens" at the Hillcrest Gar- quaint blue door with a window Thing", a farce by Roi Cooper FALMOUTH, MASS. dens. with red curtains above, white McGrue seemed to get the : :

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locked day and night even To Serve Until 1928 residents of Boston. Dr. George The Collecting Net miscro- R. Lyman, professor at the Uni- rhoLigh they contain H. H. Donaldson, Wistar In- other equipment versity of West Virginia, a Issued under the auspices of scopes and stitute of Anatomy and Biology. totals perhaps a regular member of the Corpora- The M. B. L. Club whose value W. E. Garrey, Vanderbilt Uni- in some cases. tion also died. The fifty nine thousand dollars versity. It seems strange that the labor- members of the Corporation Vol. L No. 4. Aug. 12, 1926 Caswell Grave, Washington carefully guard attending the meeting rose and atory must so LTniversity. equipment costing only fifty or remained standing while Dr. Officers M. J. Greenman, Wistar Insti- Club dollars when indivi- Woodruff read the names of a hundred tute of Anatomy and Biology. D. J. Edwards Pres. investigators leave more these deceased members. dual R. A. Harper, Columbia tJni- C. C. Speidel Vice-Pres. expensive apparatus The following members at- delicate and versity. M. Sampson Sec.-Treas. of which even the doors tended the Corporation meeting in rooms A. P. Mathews, University of Florence Tinkham.CAau-. House Com. open. at 12:00 M. Tuesday: are often left Cincinnati. Marion Rea Ckair. Social Com. C. E. Allen G. H. Parker, Harvard Uni- R. P. Bigelow The Evening Lectures versity. S. C. Brooks Editorial Staff C. R. Stockard, Cornell Uni- H. C. Bumpus J. McK. Cattell Ware Cattell, Managing Editor, Helen learn with interest that versity Medical College. We McK. Cattell C. Dunlap, A. H. Cattell, Anna the trustees of the laboratoiT To Serve Until 1927 W. Cattell Ranger Tyler, Associate Editors. plan to take under consideration R. Chambers H. C. Bumpus, Brown Uni- Contributing Editors the question of the publication E. R. Clark versity. R. E. Coker Algae of the evening lectures delivered Helen S. Morris H. E. Crampton, Barnard L. J. Cole Fisheries at the Marine Biological Labora- Marv E. Collett A. S. Eichorn ... Bureau of College, Columbia University. Eleanor Sloane Jelly Fish tory. E. G. Conklin W. C. Curtis, University of M. Copeland Town Topics The laboratory undertook at Helen Jennings Missouri. E. V. Cowdry Sports one cime to publish, bind and sell J. M. Fogg George T. Moore, Missouri W. C. Curtis these volumes at a nominal sum, H. H. Donaldson Botanical Garden, St. Louis. but owing to financial difficulties B. M. Duggar W. J. V. Osterhout, member Restrictions this arrangement was discontin- Elizabetk H. Dunn of the Rockefeller Institute for D. J. Edwards ued in 1921. This is a loss to Medical Research. Mrs. E. G. Gardiner Probably no institution exists science and to the Marine Bio- W. E. Garrey J. R. Schramm, University of where research can be carried logical Laboratory. The lectures 0. C. Glaser Pennsylvania. B. Goodrich ' out with as much freedom as at are a fairly complete ndrror of H. . William M. Wheeler, Bussey C. Grave this laboratory. Red tape and the work carri2d out al the lab- Institution, Harvard University. E. N. Harvey petty regulations are almost un- oratory, and would eventually Margaret Lorande L. Woodruff, Yale A. Hayden known here, and our work is un- form a valuable historical series T. E. Hazen University. hampered by restrictions of en the progress of research h\ 0. L. Innian M. H. Jacobs doubtful wisdom. the biological sciences. Those present at the meeting H. S. Jennings We have always taken pride of the Trustees were: A. M. Keefe in this sense of informality and TRUSTEES MEET F. R. Lillie H. McE. Knower freedom. We view, therefore, H. H. Donaldson F. P. Knowlton with apprehension the recent W. E. Garrey F. R. Lillie (Continued from Page 1) C. Grave R. S. Lillie the practise of the locking of A. P. Mathews E. Linton balance rooms. Even the under- C. R. Stockard E. P. Lvon The complete list of the trus- graduates of our colleges and H. C. Bumpus C. E. McClung tees (except those listed above) F. Malone universities are allowed to use W. C. Curtis E. J. R. Schramm A. P. Mathews with follows balances of this character L. L. Woodruflf J. W. Mavor out supervision. And it is almost (As of August 10, 1926.) E. G. Conklin Mrs. E. B. Meigs injury to read O. C. Glaser P. H. Mitchell adding insult to Officio Ex S. Nomura the notice posted on the balance R. G. Harrison H. S. Jennings C. Packard that for Frank R. LiJlie, president of room doors and learn F. P. Knowlton Florence Peebles University of more sensitive balances the Cus- the corporation. M. M. Metcalf H. H. Plough todian of Appara,tus must be Chicago. W. Patten S. E. Pond consulted. Merkel H. -Jacobs, director. W. B. Scott F. H. Pratt C. R. Crane A. C. Redfield aside from belittling University of Pennsylvania. But even R. S. Lillie C. G. Rogers Riggs, Jr., treas- our intelligence and training it Lawrason E. P. Lyon J. R. Schramm is a great inconvenience. The urer, 25 Broad street. New York C. E. McClung W. B. Scott Stockard key to the balance rooms, so the City. T. H. Morgan C. R. L. L. Woodruff, clerk of the E. B. Wilson W. R. Taylor notice informs us, may be ob- E. Uhlenhuth of tained in a nearby room. But corporation, and secretary New Members of Corporation E. B. Wilson the board of trustees, Yale L. L. Woodruff what if the Custodian of the The following scientists were University. D. B. Young Key is absent? Many investi- nominated and elected to regu- Three of the thirty-eight life gators carry on work at night, Emeritus lar membership by the Trustees and therefore may need to weigh members of the corporation at- Cornelia M. Clapp, Mount J. H. Bodine, Ph.D., Univ. of Penn. material after the Custodian of tended this annual meeting. Holyoke College. C. J. Connelley, Ph.D., Catholic has retired. If it is Univ. of America. These were : Professor E. G. the Key Gilman A. Drew, Eagle Lake, necessary to lock the balance C. H. Farr, Ph.D., Washington Conklin, Mrs. E. G. Gardiner Florida. Univ. doors, might not some pro- and Professor E. B. Wilson. room W. 0. Fenn, Ph.D., Univ. of Roch- To Serve Until 1929 vision be made so that experi- ester. ments could be carried out in C. R. Crane, New York City. F. L. Gates, M.D., Rockefeller Inst. Dr. Walter E. Garrey, Pro- the absence of the Custodian of I. F. Lewis, University of Vir- J. T. Halsey, M.D., Tulane Univ. fessor of Physiology at the Van- F. L. Hisaw, Ph. D., Univ. of Wis- the Key? ginia. derbilt University Medical consin. The fact that to some it seems R. S. Lillie, University of Marian Irwin, Ph.D., Rockefeller School in Nashville, Tenn., ar- necessary to guard the balances Chicago. Inst. rived in Woods Hole, August 10, Cornell. under lock and key reflects per- E. P. Lyon, University of . Irving Paige, M. D., to attend the meeting of the haps upon those who have been Minnesota. Bradley Patten, M.D., Western Trustees of the Marine Biolog- Reserve Univ. using the ical Laboratory. Dr. Garrey has equipment in question. C. E. McClung, University of J. W. Wilson, Ph.D., Brown Univ. It is unfortunate that this is the Pennsylvania. just returned from a trip 31 1 Members of Corporation case, but it seems scarcely nec- T. H. Morgan, Columbia Uni- through Europe. essary to impose restrictions at versity. Two Life Members of the the expense of the convenience D. H. Tennent, Bryn Mawr Corporation died during the Dr. Livingston Farrand, pres- of the experienced investigator. College. past year. They were: Miss ident of Cornell University, is A large proportion of the in- E. B. Wilson, Columbia Uni- Amy Folsom and Miss Eugenia visiting Woods Hole with his vestitiators leave their rooms un- versity. Gardiner both of whom were family. : !'1

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bound by a stipulation and oath, ac- THE SEA URCHIN the University of New York, on R. Llllie, Professor of Embryo- cording to the law of the Custodian, April twenty second, 1863, with logy but to none others. University of Chicago and I will follow of treat- a membership of fifty. It was Director of the Marine Biologi- IT PRICKS WITHOUT that method ment whicli according to my ability at once afforded the public and cal Laboratory, Thomas Hunt and judgment I DISCRIMINATION consider for the bene- governmental recognition it still Morgan, Professor of Experi- fit of my balances, and abstain from holds. A recent development is mental Zoology whatever is deleterious and mischie- Columbia Uni- the vous. I will weigh no deadly poison awarding and administra- versity, C. E. McClung, Profes- The members of the staff for anyone if asked, nor suggest any tion of fellowships supported by sor of Zoology University of took a certain pride in the such counsel, furthermore, I will not the Rockefeller Foundation and Pennsylvania, E. B. Wilson, Pro- give to a novice an instrument to as- leading prick of this week; other grants, through its sub- fessor of certain a weight. Zoology Columbia but, alas, it has been censored sidiary, the Vv'ith purity and holiness I will pass National Research University, Charles R. Stockard, by individuals older and wiser my life and practice my art. I will Council. Professor of Anatomy Cornell than they. A member of the weigh not caustic soda without watcli The members of the Academy Medical College, Gaiy N. Cal- glass; nor v/ill I slop vitrei. I will '.'banana group", however, was Vi'orking in the laboratory are kins, Professor of Zoology Co- not weigh a chrystal that be deil- H. H. concerned; and should he wish qtitiicent, but will leave this to be Donaldson, Professor of lumbia University. Of the eight to be privately pricked he may done by the custodian of this work. Anatomy in the Wistar Institute, academy members, seven ard come personally, (or send a Into whatever balance rooms I enter H. H. Jennings, Professor of Trustees of the Marine Biolog- I will go into them for the benefit of representative) to room 211 Zoology Johns Hopkins, Frank ical Laboratory. science, and will abstain from every end see what v/as not fortunate voluntary act of mischief and des- enough to be classified among truction, and further from the pro- "the survival of the fittest." duction of blemishes or knocks, large or small. Whatever, in connection with my The well known botanist lias, professional practice or not in con- 'y/e learn, at the last moment, nection with it, I may see or hear in which ought not been awarded the Carnegit the realm of science to be spoken abroad, I will not di- Medal for Life Saving. vulge, as reckoning that all such should be kept secret. NEW UNIVERSAL While I continue to keep this oath On the first and second Tues- unviolate may it be granted me to day of each month at 10 :00 enjoy life, and the practice of the BINOCULAR MICROTOME A. M. and 3:00 P. M. the cus- art, res'pected by all men at all times; but, should I trespass and violate todian of apparatus will conduct and other custodian, in wrath, a balance users' test in the main this oath may the daily reprimand me! .hall way of the brick building. The fee for the license is §5.00. SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS Fragment of conversation The balance on which the test is Overheard at Whitiiian Houss taken must be furnished by the including 'applicant. The following condi- First fair damsel: Why he's tions are imposed: m.arried. Second fair damsel: What? (1) The applicant must have OUR NEW reached his thirtieth birthday. Married??? First fair damsel: Uh-huh. An affidavit must be presented ROTARY MICROSCOPE NO. 815 that come here hide to substantiate this fact. The men their marital entanglements un- (2) The applicant must be a der a bushel. citizen of Massachusetts and Second fair damsel: Oh! a must have been a worker at the case of burning their bridges laboratory for a period of at SPENCER LENS COMPANY behind them, I suppose. least thirty days. On Saturday evening at 10:37 BUFFALO, N. Y. (3) Before granting of the Miss Impi Arvo and J. J. Mur- license the applicant must phey announced their engage- solemnly promise (a) To wash ment in a novel manner. It has his hands and his face and already been rumored that Miss painstakingly dry them before Arvo has made reservations on entering the balance room; (b) the train leaving on the coming To speak, should it be necessary Saturday for Reno, Nebraska. WE MANUFACTURE to say anything, in a low and THE HIGHEST QUALITY carefully modulated voice to pre- NATIONAL vent resonance and consequent ACADEMY Microscopes and Accessories destruction of the more delicate MEMBERS WORK HERE Microtomes portions of the apparatus; (c) Projection Apparatus After locking the door and re- (Continued from Page 1) moving the key, to plug the key Photomicrographic Cameras hole with cotton to prevent the nine members, selected as the Field Glasses entrance of bacteria, dust, or foremost American men of Botanical Apparatus moisture. The following oath is r,;ience chosen from all fields. Photographic Lenses then administered to the license2 Tt is of interest to note that one Centrifuges of the founders of the Academy The Oath of Pondocrates Haemocytometers was liOuis Agassiz, who was the I sv.-ear by Gii'lileo, the physicist, founder of the Anderson School Spectrometers by Newton and by Einstein, and all Catalogues of Natural History on Penikese Refractometers the chemists and physicists that, ac- On Request cording to my ability and judgement, Island, and thus the foerunner Colorimeters I will keep this oath and stipulation: of the Woods Hole Laboratory. to reckon him who taught me weigh- Other Optical Products The Academy was organized ing equally dear to me as my parents; to share my substance with him who nurina: the Civil War, with two permits me the use of a balance, and stated objects; to afford recog- relieve his necessities if required; to nition to men of science having Bausch & Lomb Optical Co. regard his balances as on the same done work of great importance, footing with my own equipment, and Main Office and Factory: Rochester, N. Y. to teach them this art if they should and, especially, to aid the gov- wish to learn it, without fee or ernment in the solution of scien- stipulation, New York: Park and 42nd Sts. Chicago: 5 No. Wabash Ave. and that by percept, tific problems having a pratical lecture and every other mode of in- bearing on the conduct of the Boston: 333 Washington St. San Francisco; 28 Geary St. struction, I will impart a knowledge of the art to my sons, and to those public business. The first meet- of my teachers and to disciples ing was held in the chapel of | : : ;

PAGE SIX THE COLLECTING NET CORPORATION BY-LAWS BIOLOGICAL WORK Sebastopal, Crimea. Besides these there are three ichthyo- SEA ROBIN IN RUSSIA logical laboratories at Astrak- THE It is deemed appropriate at han, Baku, and Kerch, wihich are Breakfast, Dinner, Supper time to reproduce the By- this •The Collecting Net", hunting making investigations in applied of the Corporation of the biology and ichthyology. Afternoon Tea Laws more for human beings than for Marine Biological Laboratory. All of those stations exclusive fish,—happened to catch recent- These follow: of two (at Peterhof and Kerch) MRS. CRITTENDEN ly at the M. B. L. Club a rather existed before the war and I. The annual meeting of the Phone: 667-3 rare and interesting personage. revolution. The Moscow In- members shall be held on the Dr. N. Borodin, former profes- stitute publishes the "Journal of Tuesday in August, at second Experimental Biology" ; The sor at Fetrograd Agricultural the Laboratory, in Woods Hole, Peterhof Institute — "Travaux THE College, connected at the present Mass., at 12 o'clock noon, in de r Institut des sciences natu- COLEMAN & BELL time with Brooklyn Museum. The Wol^a each year, and at such meeting relles de Peterhof". COMPANY choose by bal- He came here to collect some Hydrobiological Station pub- the members shall Incorporated as well lishes "Arbeiten der Biologis- lot a Treasurer and a Clerk, who material for the Museum Station", and "Rus- Manufacturing Chemists shall be, ex officio, members of as for his studies on the rate chen Wolga Trus- sian Hydrobiological Journal" the Board of Trustees, and of growth of fishes. We asked NORWOOD, OHIO Baku and Kerch tees as hereinafter provided. Astrakhan, U. S. A. him about the biological studies laboratories pub- At the annual meeting to be held Ichthyological in Russia at the present time and high Reports", in 1897, not more than twenty- "Annual four Trustees shall be chosen, received the following short and Persons further interested in studied by the who shall be divided into four general information. the problems said stations look up the Bug Hunters! classes, to serve one, two, three, the improvement of gen- may With Don't chase all over and four years, respectively, and named publications which are eral Hving conditions in regard town for food for your thereafter not more than eight to be found among the serials to food and lodging, the scienti- beach parties. We Trustees shall be chosen annual- received by the M. B. L. library. in Russia gradually Although they are published in have everything in our ly for the term of four years. fic studies the store next to the Post These officers shall hold their resume their former trend, and Russian, the contents and summaries of papers are always Office respective offices until others there appear many new young qualified in their given in English and German. are chosen and biologists, disciples of pre-war FRESH BREAD, MEAT The President of the Being asked about the life stead. professors, though the number of and ALL CANNED the Director and and work at Woods Hole, Dr. Corporation, biologists is still far from Associate Director of the Borodin expressed his admira- GOODS the sufficient to fill all positions shall also be Trus- tion of the unique possibilities Laboratory ,_ staffs of the QUICK SERVICE on the scientific for biological investigation pre- tees, ex offico. Universities. Research work is LOW PRICES Special meetings of the sented by the M. B. L. in its II. carried on much better in the be called by the present state, and its rare ac- members may institutions which are not coji- Morrison's Market be held in Boston or commodations for the work. He Trustees to nected with teaching in the Uni- Woods Hole. Hole at such time and showed also a special interest in in Woods versities, because these institu- designated. the energetic life of students and Mass. place as may be tions are free from the rather young investigators in biology of the aggres- offending control different ( Continued on Page 8) who come here from representatives of the So- sive states and countries. viet Government, which puts Dr. Borodin, besides his FOREIGN BOTANISTS HERE its heavy hand on the education scientific books and papers, is FALMOUTH of the country in general. These plant the author of a book on the Professor B. Nemec, representatives try not only to "United States and Russia" and RESTAURANT physiologist, with Professor control the finances of the uni- is particularly interested in Domin, botanist, and Madam versities and colleges, but also MAIN ST., FALMOUTH American life and in education to intrude into the policy, plans Domin of Charles University, in general. Prague, Czechoslovakia, have of teaching, etc., which cause H. TOYOTA, Mgr. been visiting our laboratory this great trouble in the normal past week-end on their way to academic life, and very often Estate of M. H. WALSH Chicken, Steak, Chops, the International Botanical Con- causes the feelings of the educa- Ithaca. tors to become quite insuppor- ROSE SPECIALIST gress at Fish- Professor Nemec has long table. Only those who have WOODS HOLE been well known for his experi- succeeded in "accommodating Roses Shrubs Chop Suey and Chow Mein mental cytological investiga- themselves to the environments" tions, and has been recently en- or in "acquiring a protective Perennials Evergreens satisfied; all 6:30 A. M. to 11:00 P. M. gaged in a study of symbiotic coloration" feel Open or Planting and Pruning bacteria in plant cells. others suffer morally, more Professor and Madam Domin less .... Moreover, there is a are extensive travellers and ex- severe and imbecile censure of not excluding pect to visit the West Indies all publications Compliments of this Fall to continue their in- the scientific ones. To illustrate SAMUEL CAHOON vestigations on ecological pro- One farsighted Soviet censor in- Wholesale and Retail PENZANCE GARAGE sisted that the word "petro- blems. Dealer in graphy" must be substituted WOODS HOLE, MASS. Visiting Scientists by "Leninegraphy", because Fish and Lobsters Petrograd is named Leningrad. Day or Night A. L. A. Woods Hole Tel. 660-661 few of the visiting scien- institu- A Among the scientific Phone 652. Towing Falmouth - 329 tists who came down to Woods tions in which research work Hole for the meetings or for is carried on more or less nor- other reasons during the last mally the following must be few days are here listed mentioned: Institute of Experi- R E. G. Conklin, E. P. Lyon, W. E. mental Biology at Moscow, Dr. Garrey, A. P. Mathews, H. C. Bum- N. K. Koltzoff, Director, Peter- COMPANY pus, W. C. Curtis, J. R. Schramm, W C DAVIS M. M. Metcalf, B. Nemec, Professor hof Institute of Natural Sciences and Madam Domin, J. M. Cattell, near Leningrad, Prof. K. Deru- HOME FURNISHERS R. E. Coker, J. A. Detlefsen, H. H. gin. Director, Wolga Biological Donaldson, B. M. Duggar, R. G. Har- Station, Saratov, A. N. Behning, FALMOUTH MASS rison, J. E. Kindred, F. H. Pratt, a W. B. Scott. Director, Biological Station at —

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JELLY FISH Have you ever heard the Thorne, Louise, Titlebaum, Albert,. latest use of chewing gum? The Tyler, A. Ranger, Tyler, Katherine, Uhlenhuth, invertebrates have discovered Mr. E., Vanbaun, Dr. The invertebrates have wrig- and Mrs., Vicari, Emilio, Walters, that if you chew gum two Patronize Our gled away but this is the last Mary Jane, Wieman, H. S., Mavor, minutes furiously, out of it you Mrs. J., Witschi, E., Witschi, Mrs. E., little flagellum floating back- can model anything in five min- Wilson, C. B., Woodruff, L. L., Choate, Advertisers D., Grant, Jean, ward to show that we have been utes from a typewriter to a cir- F., Lynch, Ruth, Orbison, Agnes. here. And, honestly, we are cumoesophageal ring. But the interest afraid that the trail of our pro- in art soon waned, so The Torpedo Ray gress is indelibly impressed on the track aspirants tried their CAPE COD the M. B. L. and especially upon iuck at the charming pastime of For ages the a certain long-suflfering labora- three-legged races. torpedo has been AUTO COMPANY known to possess all the proper- tory which will be just a little Then for about an hour the in- ties that we LINCOLN worse and more battered after vertebrates were changed to now associate with it. Today as in FORD our struggle with the intricacies vertebrates of fish-like locomo- the past it FORDSON carries terror and wonder to of the anatomy of Busycon. tion for the swimming races. Authorized Sales and Service the layman. Its reputation is What an animal! Half the in- Prizes were awarded for men's so extreme that it has been FALMOUTH, MASS. vertebrates were reduced to, and women's free for all, mixed the nature of many episodes. well, we won't call it profanity back stroke race, cake carrying The organ by because we absolutely cannot, contest, in which the staff was which the tor- pedo produces this charge will not draw in three planes of pitted against the student repre> of electricity space. sentatives. is analogous to that ROBINSON of the Leyden jar. These elec- Evolutionary adaptation cer- But what we want to know is, PHARMACY tric organs are large flat uni- tainly played havoc with the why does everything have to end (IrU) form bodies, lying artistic temperament of the class so soon. Captain Veeder and on each side of the head. They consist of that day. But just before we Jack simply insisted that all the DRUG STORE SERVICE hexagonal prisms in contact finished the dissection, when de- invertebrates get back in time with the integuments above termination had reduced our for Mess even though half of us and be- TEL. FALMOUTH 212 low. Each of the prisms is jaws to rugged warning, we took had food all over our exteriors divided into tranverse compart- time off and had our picture as well as the interior— (that is. ments filled with taken. Twenty years hence, em- have_ you ever tried blueberry clear, jelly- like pie in a pie fluid and lined by an epi- bryo scientists at Woods Hole eating contest?). When Looking for Reliable thelium of nucleated corpuscles. will gaze at that picture with And then it was all over,- Merchandise Between the epithelium Try awe and envy and the present the invertebrates are no more! and the compartments are the invertebrates with hoary beards nerve Survival ramifications. Each organ re- will shake their heads and sigh of the Fittest! ARENOVSKI'S ceives one branch of the Tri- reprovingly, "This present gen- Est. 1892 Phone 410 The following list has been geminal nerve and four branches eration of invertebrates !—now compiled for the benefit of the of the Vagus. The magnitude The Home of when I took the invertebrate — world at large and those men- and the number of the nerves Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothing course ". But now the only tioned below in particular to bestowed on these organs in Lamson & Hubbard Hats thing we can think of is, "It's inform it and them of those who proportion to their size are very Printzess Suits, Coats and all over", plus an explosive have declared their intention of extraordinary. Nerves are given Dresses "darn" or something stronger. remaining in Woods Hole until to parts, either for sensation or So just to have a grand and Everything in the Way of Sport September 1, or longer. action. glorious good time together be- Clothes Those who will remain during The fish gives the electric fore August 9 rolled around the September are the following: shock voluntarily, when it is ex- Walk-Over Shoes whole invertebrate "gang" went Armstrong, P., Arvo, Impi, Arz- cited to do so in self-defence or to Tarpaulin Cove for the one berger, E. G., Bitldle, P. L., Basker- Satisfaction Guaranteed or ille, M., Bodansky, Bridges, intends to stun or kill its prey. and only picnic. We refuse to 0., C. B., Money Refunded Briggs, Mr., Briggs, Mrs., Bronson, However to receive the shock say we had a "grand and glor- Mary W., Falmouth -:- .:- Mass. Buhrer, Edna M., Cattell, the object must complete the ious time", that would be put- M., Cattell, W., Chambers, R., Chamberlain, galvanic circuit at two distinct ting it mildly and if we raved Thelma, Chen, T. Y., Chidester, F. points, either directly or through with the degree of enthusiasm E., Christie, J. R., Cla- path, H., Claasson, Mrs. J. H., the medium of some conducting we feel, such charming phrases Clansson, Mary, Cole, E. C, Cobb, body. A painful sensation may as "gush", "trash", et cetera N. A., Corder, Margaret N., Crosby, be produced by a discharge coii- would float by night upon the R. W., Curtis, W. C, Darby, H. H., De Forest, veyed through the medium of a fogs of Woods Hole. Do you D. M., Deins, W., Detlef- son, J. H., Duggar, B. M., Duggar, stream of water. The electric want to know what we did? Louis, Dunlap, Anna C, Dunlap, Mrs. currents created in these fishes well, just try and find out what K., Dunlap, Sarah, Eichorn, A., possess all known powers of we did not Elliott, Edith, Esaki, S., Field, M., do. Dr. Dawson is lectricity, Fogg, L. C, Fish, they render the needle getting just a little too versa- C. J., Fish, H. R., Fish, H. D., Genther, Ida, Gordon, L, magnetic, decompose chemical tile. Woods Hole. We are afraid CLEArSrED Grand, C, Grave, B. M., Guthrie, compounds, emit a spark, light PRESSED he will have to find larger hunt- Mary J., Hance, R. T., Harnly, Marie, an electric bulb. DYED ing grounds or enter Major Harnly, Morris, Hartline, H. K., Heilbrunn, When the torpedo is weakened ALTERED League baseball. Baseball as L. I., Heinly, Helen M., or near expiring it Herman, M., Hess, Olga T., Hughes, ceases to ntade ~ the invertebrates play it is an \_ promptly T. P., Hunt, T. P., Jeffers, Katherine, communicate the electric shock. experience never to be forgot- Johnson, H. R., Just, E. E., Keefe, After successive transmissions ten—mixed teams, good players, Rev. A. M., Kindred, F. A., Kindred, it must rest before it is able to bad players, reverse batting, Mrs. F. A., Koehring, Vera, Knowl- ton, F. P., Kunitz, M., Lancefield, D. produce another shock. It will underhand pitching, and a field E., Lancefield, R. C, Lewis, Ivy, Lin- sometimes allow itself to be that would have made splendid ton, E., Linton, Mrs. E., Maclellan, touched, this is a voluntary act. sled riding in January. And G. A., Mavor, J. M., McAfev, C. L McClung, With each effort of the animal with such a weight of hard caps, C. E., McClung, Mrs. C. E., McClung, Beth, to give a shock there is an ac- the swarthy team, headed by McClung, Virginia, McCu'tcheon, M. M., McKwen, Dr. companying depression of the Dr. Dawson, walked off the field McKwen, Mrs. Montgomery, Hugk, eyes and a great degree of bodily with Nachtheim, one broad grin. And, then H., Naaler, J. Ernest, quietness. we ate, and Napoleon's army had Nahm, L., Nassonov, D., Nomura, S., M. DOLINSKY & CO. Pasquini, P., Patrick, These rays are very common nothing on the invertebrates M., Packard, C, Packard, Mrs. C, Plunkett, C. R., in the vicinity of Gay Head Tailors when it came to "travelling on Sewall, H. R.. Schrader, I. F., Scott, Light being brought back on their stomachs". The food that Julian, Schrouder, W. C., MAIN STREET Schwartz- every trip of the Phalarope for disappeared bach, S., Sheuring, Dr. down fifty-five welJr Ludwig, exhibition Somneburn, M. Tracy, Smith, at the aquarium of WOODS HOLE, MASS. developed oesophagi was start- Wilbur, Stocking, Mrs. C. H., Synder, the Bureau and for experimen- ling in the extreme. J. O., Time out! Taylor, Ivan, R., Taylor, W. R. tal purposes. NET PAGE EIGHT THE COLLECTING Lewis, in since no botany trip can be con- Professor I. F. BY-LAWS ALGAE course CORPORATION sidered complete without some charge of the botany suddenly at the botanists cele- truly spectacular occurrence, the here, departed Last week the week upon the re- (Continued from Page 6) with a Monday Climax was afforded when Grace end 01 last brated as usual telegram announcing As the poster Griffin dived off the Cayadetta ceipt of a night seminar. father. the Botany and found she couldn't get back. the death of his The Clerk shall give lab predicted, III. Taylor^--- immediately- hopped Hole , Dr. .. of the mem- nonartrnpnt of WoodS notice of meetings off the deck Biological Laboratory out of his shoes and some daily SaHne_ Where do we get our bers by publication in Fern with a mighty splash, not even published in Boston presented Miss Fanny DRY GOODS newspaper [ ^--'~ Mosaic Dis- taking time to take off his STATIONERY days before such Smith (herself)"- in at least fifteen glasses. It was very dramatic BATHING SUPPLIES special and Leaf Variagations and in case of a eases at meeting, the class ad while it lasted, but it didn't last notice shall state After the lecture meeting the in long, because a skiff' had to be it is journed to lab and engaged purposeDu^rnose forJ.U1 which J the Tnrinnr Track and launched to pull them both in. Mrs. Snov/'s Store the Annual Indoor KODAK FILMS called. The events were Nevertheless it was an original y-five members Field Meet. Developing and Printing IV. T w e n t hotly contested. touch, and originality is our quorum at any exciting and Good Work Quick Service shallconstitute a the iJU- aim. The first of these was meeting. inch dash, a feat of great skill shall have Gorokhoff and his V. The Trustees and daring. The "thirty inch Professor of of the control and management refers to the length of a piece family are spending the summer Corporation; marsh- Millfield street. Dr. Goro- HAIR DRESSER the affairs of the string to which is tied a on of ita music ai they shall present a report mallow, and the point of the con- khoff is professor of Shingling and Bobbing annual noeet- marsh- College. Before taking condition at every test is to obtain the Smith of their ing; they shall elect one mallow whicb is swingeing at this position he was leader of CHAS. H. NUGENT President of the Corpor- the string by a choir in New York City. number the other «id of formerly L. L. Eldridge Chairman ex- ation who shall also be suction or any other means Trustees; they be- Woods Hole Near Drawbridge of the Board of cept anchoring the string Dr. C. L. Parmenter, assistant of the shall appoint a Director tween two incisors and using professor of zoology and Miss Laboratory; and they may tongue as a spool. This was Hazeltine Stedman, instructor and the choose such other officers won by Helen Brown with Fanny in zoology at Mount Holyoke think best; a close agents as they may Fern Smith running College, were married on Mon- Tel. 19-4 Water Waving compensation they may fix the second. The second event was day, August 2. of all the the SANSOUCl CARRAGHER and define the duties the Six Oar Race in which & and may the BARBER SHOP officers and agents; •water consuming ability of Dr. Safford of the Depart- them, Mass. remove them, or any of botany department was demon- ment of Public Health of Boston, Falmouth, the mem- except those chosen by strated to be phenomenal. The has taken what was once Vinal Scientific Scalp Treatment may fill bers, at any time; they third event was a relay in which Edwards' barn for the summer. Hairdressing Marcel Waving man- the Facials vacancies occurring in any eligibility was limited to Dr. Edwards used the top floor Shampooing or in Manicuring ner in their own number ability to whistle under ordin- until his death three years ago shall any of the offices. They circumstances. The physical as a museum. The house is lo- members ary from time to time elect and mental strain in this contest cated on Quissett Avenue, oppo- such to the Corporation upon was tremendous, and the exer- site Millfield Street. as they then terms and conditions tion required in whistling, Hair Cuts Shaves may think best. eating a gigantic milk cracker, Dr. Leon Augustus Hausman

sticks , VI Meetings of the Trustees saying "six, thick, thistle and his wife arrived in Woods Ladies' Bcbbirg whistling again, resulted, shall be called by the President, and Hole Sunday for a few days stay. cases, in a sort of or by any two Trustees, and the in several Dr. Hausman is Associate Pro- exhaustion. The Secretary shall give notice there- hysterical fessor of Zoology at Rutgers ,VESQUE event was a boxing match of by written or printed notice fourth University, and is well known New York pugi- MainStreet WoodHole sent to each Trustee by mail, in which the for his research on mammalian weaker sex) de- postpaid. Seven Trustees shall lists (of the hairs. All New England constitute a quorum for the feated the broke all pre- transaction of business. The challengers and (That was all the Board of Trustees shall have vious records. recorded). The last power to choose an Executive breakage bee m Committee from their own num- event was a spelling The Elizabeth Theatre Keefe triumphed, and to delegate to such Com- which Father ber, crowd gave FALMOUTH, MASS. mittee such of their own powers although the whole "manoeuvered". When as they may deem expedient. out on HIGH CLASS PHOTOPLAYS all the fudge had been consumed, VII. The accounts of the the last seminar of the season Show Starts at 7.43 — Feature Picture at 8.30 shall be audited Treasurer broke up. Short Reels Repeated After the Feature Picture. by a certified public annually Friday's trip to Gay Head A COMPLETE SHOW AFTER 8.30 accountant. was sufficient consolation for the Saturday Two Shows at 7.00 and 9.00 O'clock every VIII. The consent of absence of a Botany Picnic. The Matinees Monday, Wednesday and Saturday at 2.30 to Trustee shall be necessary collecting was exciting. It al- dissolution of the Marine Bio- ways adds zest to collecting if case of logical Laboratory. In there is surf and to Jiave to Thursday, August 12 dissolution, the property shall be sneak up behind the breakers disposed of in such manner and and grab, and then when you upon such terms as shall be de- have a basket full of algae to termined by the affirmative vote have a wave sneak up on you! of of two-thirds of the Board It has always seemed particular- Trustees. ly tragic to us that there is no IX. These By-laws may be instrument to record the sur- altered at any meeting of the prised expression assumed by a Trustees, provided that the no- botanist when he finds himself tice of such meeting shall state sitting down where he never ex- that an alteration of the By-laws pected to sit, and his hoard of will be acted upon. algae floating back to its native X. Any member in good habitat. Besides the surf, how- standing may vote at any meet- ever, there was the additional ing, either in person or by attraction of the Gay Head clay proxy duly executed. and lobster sandwiches. But G Net

VOL. 1. NO. 5 WOODS HOLE, MASS., THURSDAY, AUGUST 19 TEN CENTS

TOWN TOPICS NATATORIAL CON- TESTS COLORFUL Botanists Lecture Listen, everybody! On Tues- day, August 24th in the Com- Isabel Morgan Stars in Water 9 Drs. Reed and Howe Talk to Large and munity Hall, Woods Hole, the Sports August —Canoe Tip- Interested annual fair of St. Josephs ping Furnishes Thrills. Audiences Church will be held. Cake, The annual Water Sports candy and fancy work tables will Festivities of Woods Hole were Absorption of Ions Deposition by Marine Algae be on sale. Dancing in the held on the Cayadetta Wharf The evening lecture of August "Reef Building and Land on Monday afternoon, August evening, will furnish a good 6, "Absorption of Rations and Forming Plants", was the sub- 9. In more or less full view of time until midnight. On August Anions by Plant Roots", was an eager and numerous throng ject of an illustrated lecture the same affair will be re- 25th of spectators who lined the given by Dr. Howard S. Reed delivered by Dr. Marshall Avery peated in Falmouth. Come one shore, swimmers, divers and of the Graduate School of Trop- Howe, of the New York Botan- and all. The celebration begins paddlers of both sexes, old and ical Agriculture, located at the ical Gardens, in the Auditorium at three o'clock in the afternoon. young, made merry. Citrus Experiment Station, on Tuesday evening, August 3. Miss Isabel Morgan was the Dr. first Riverside, California. The ex- Howe spoke of the outstanding star of the occasion, different organisms which play librar- periments which have been done Miss Mary E. Wood, winning first place in three a part in the formation of land ian of the Boone Libra,ry, Cen- events, helping win the Girls' under his direction have been and pointed out that, contrary tral China University, Wuchang, Relay, and coming out victorious designed to study the absorp- to common belief, the corals are China, will give a talk on the in the Canoe Tilt. tion of different elements in the by no means always the mogc As has alway.s been the case important of these. In fact, a training of librarians in China, soil. The methods used were in the history of Water Sports recent survey of a so-called and on the new movement for similar to those used in stand- at Woods Hole in recent years "coral reef" resulted in the plac- establishing libraries in the ard balanced culture solution the success of the event was ing of the corals as fourth in the Chinese Empire. The affair will studies with the exception that due in large measure to the order of their effectiveness as be held at the home of Mrs. W. the plants were grown so as to patronage of Mrs. J. P. War- agents in building up land, first M. Crane on Thursday after- permit observation over an ex- basse. Sponsored by her, these and second rank being held by noon, August 26th. All those period of time. Orange festivities have become an an- tended marine algae. interested are cordially invited trees were grown in large metal nual feature looked forward to Of the minute to attend. containers for several years in algal organisms by many. which aid in deposition the order to simulate orchard con- The various events were ably Diatoms are by far the most A delightful musical was held ditions. The effect of the handled by Mr. Allen, a visitor significant. These forms, which at the home of Mrs. W. M. anions and kations of nutrient at the Warbasse residence, and are possessed of a siliceous Crane on Sunday afternoon, salts was determined upon the were announced by Mr. Hugh skeleton, exist in the plankton August 15'th. A program of basis of dry weight increase. Montgomery. Contestants were in countless numbers and dia- select music was rendered by At present the experimenters summoned to the end of the pier tomaceous earth, often Miss Use Huebner, pianist, and are attempting to determine the many and given instructions well in feet deep, occurs at several well Miss Nancy Wilson, cellist. effect upon the plants of traces advance of their event so that known localities. Those present were much en- of various rare elements when Many of these the contest was attended by the deposits are found in the tem- thused by the inspiring music they are added to the standard minimum delay. perate regions and on land and everyone spent an enjoyable culture solution. areas which have undergone consider- afternoon. (Continued on Page 3) J. M. F. able uplift in past geologic time. The larger marine algae If there is any inhabitant of PROTECTIVE ASSO. The Tide in the Hole which are important Woods Hole who should hold as land OFFICERS formers, belong chiefly to the his head very high it is Mr. ELECTED At the following hours the great groups Chlorophyceae Franklin L. Gifford, who has and Slight Change Made in Policy current in the Hole turns to Rhodophyceae. The former con- had his picture in the papers run from Buzzards Bay to tains, in the order Siphonales, twice this month ; once in the At the annual meeting of the V^ineyard Sound: such genera as Halimeda, Udo- New York Times, and once in Woods Hole Protective Associa- Aug. 20 2:08 P.M. tea, and Penicillus, all of which the Boston Post, as "The Artist tion held July 28, in the Lecture Aug. 21 2:53 P.M. are lime-encrusting forms and of Woods Hole". However, Mr. Hall a new group of officers Aug. 22 3:59 P.M. occur conspicuously in the Gifford is serenely unconscious were elected and the policy of the Aug. 23 4:51P.M. warmer waters of the tropics. of his fame, and paints on un- forthcoming year was discussed. Aug. 24 5:46 P.M. The presence of these plants on disturbed. Most of his paint- This Protective Association 25 6:31P.M. the beaches of southern Florida ings are of marine type, with Aug. was established five years ago :36 P. and Jamaica, for example, where that fascinating twang of the Aug. 26 7 M. to provide for some sort of pro- 27 their limy skeletons contribute sea worked in with every stroke Aug. 8:21P.M. tection to the vacant homes of to the gradual upbuilding of the of the brush, as only those who In each case the current the summer colonists. Since the positive land element, must be are well acquainted with the sea :hanges six hours later and inception of the organization regarded as of prime impor- and its life are able to express. runs from the Sound to the about ninety members have tance. Woods Hole has every reason to Bay. be proud of Mr. Giflford! ( Continued on Page 7) (Continued on Page 2) PAGE TWO THE COLLECTING NET

BOTANISTS LECTURE by author as well as by subject The Woods Hole Index matter. It is particularly de- (Continued from page 1) sired to obtain a complete set The second number of the Woods Hole is to be closed after of reprints, in duplicate, of arti- Woods Hole Index, published by this season. It has been a Among the Rhodophyceae, al- cles by investigators working the Dolphin Press of Woods unique landmark, and its loss so, are to be found a great num- in the Marine Biological Labora- Hole, under the editorship of will be felt not only by those ber of lime-encrustnig genera, tory, and such contributions will Dr. Elizabeth Dunn, has been who have purchased an occa- such as Lithothamnion, Litho- be especially welcome. released under date of August sional volume or sailing chart, phyllum and Goniolithon, which The General Education Board first. but also by those of us who have form flat, calcareous encrusta- has granted the library the sum Coral- is considered it as typifying the tions, and Galaxaura and The leading article by Dr. of ten thousand dollars, payable types. erudition of our community. lina, which are branched E. V. Cowdry, of the Rocke- over a period of five years for The Index we believe to have Earlier, when little was known feller Institute and the Marine the purchase of complete sets life histories of these a most interesting and useful about the Biological Laboratory, strongly of journals. The amount so far field in acquainting us with the organisms, many of them were advocating the increased use of available has permitted the pur- as corals and were possibilities of enjoyment and regarded canoes in this vicinity by those chase of fifty-seven such sets, acciuisition of knowledge of nat- called Nullipores. It is known physically and mentally compe- the most important being Pflug- lime-secreting ural history, and eagerly hope now that these tent. The article is obviously er's Archiv fur gesammte Phys- chiefly in that the vast fund of accumu- red algae, which exist based on extensive experience, iologie, Virchow's Archiv lated experiences of the older fur the warmer tropic and sub- and is replete with excellent ad- Pathologische Ayiatomie mid tropic waters are important habitues of the Hole will become vice and sagacious warnings, Phi/siologie and Comptes Rendus in the extension of the available to us through its pages. agents even against those snares of of the Academy of France. land areas. Many of them are T. P. H. canoeing into which the author On August twenty-eight there exceedingly beautiful in habit himself is reputed fall- to have will be held at Woods Hole a and bear a superficial resem- ! Trips are outlined, of en types LIBRARY NOTES meeting of representatives of blance to the true corals. canoes considered, the and even numerous scientific libraries In addition to the marine most advantageous position for The Library Report presented such as the New York Academy forms there are certain micro- the paddler (while paddling!) is by the Librarian, Mrs. Friscilla of Medicine, the American Med- scopic algae belonging to the described. It is quite refresh- B. Montgomery, to the Trustees ical Association, the Crerar Myxophyceae which occur m ing even mildly amazing and at their Annual Meeting con- Library, Biological Abstracts, hot springs, such as those in professionally con- that one who tained items of interest and im- Rockefeller Institute, Smithson- portions of the western United siders sagaciously the innermost portance to the laboratory, ion Institution, the Library of States, and may be materially structure of cells should commit particularly those in investiga- Congress, the Surgeon General's concerned in altering land sur- himself so irrevocably to arti- tive work. Library and numerous univer- faces. cles showing that the opportun- Since last summer seventy sity libraries to consider special In concluding the lecturer ity for work has been only one five periodicals have been added problems in library administra- dwelt upon the importance of of the attractions of Woods to our subscription list, raising tion. algae as fossil deposits. Many Hole! the number of those currently Some of the questions to be fossils, formerly supposed to be Charles J. Fish has written, received to over five hundred. discussed are the exchanging of of animal origin, have since from a somewhat economic In addition to these there are duplicates, the establishment of been shown to possess a micros- viewpoint, concerning the inves- about three hfimdred sets of a clearing house to dispose of copic structure identical with tigations of the New England journals which have suspended unwanted sets, the interchange that of some of the modern Fisheries. Infant mortality publication, more or less com- of books between libraries, the corallines. Others, in cross among baby cod, reaching the plete. The number of bound selection of special fields. of re- section, show the vegetative and astounding height of 5,999,998 journals exceeds twelve thous- sponsibility for a given library reproductive features of a type deaths from every six million and. and the choosing of journals for like Lithothamnion. eggs; the reason for the high The librarian is eager to subscription. It is altogether possible that concentration of cod in Massa- know of new journals appearing some of the most puzzling pre- chusetts Bay, and the possibili- and to receive suggestions as to The Biological Bulletin Cambrian deposits may be di- ties of such institutions as the the purchase of sets of period- rectly attributed to the products Mess completely exterminating icals not at present in our lib- of plant metabolism, j. ,i/. f. Since the enlargement of the the food fish of these regions rary, and useful in biological Biological Bulletin the accumu- Dr. Fish Lectures are all considered. research. lated manuscripts have all been "Biology Students in British A feature of interest to the Another item of importance published or are in press and it Guiana" was the subject of an more serious is a bibliography concerned the "new book cor- is now possible to issue papers interesting illustrated talk given ner". majority of the books of scientific papers dealing with A with a minimum of delay. by Dr. H. D. Fish, professor of in this collection are furnished the Woods Hole area. For the The attention of investigators zoology at the University of most part they concern marine by the publishers to the library at the laboratory is, therefore, Pittsburgh last Friday. The without charge as an advertis- fauna, but some are botanical. called to this condition. The next issue of the Collecting Net ing measure. In order to con- For the more cultured there is director will be pleased to re- will contain an account of his vince other publishers that this a poem bv Eleanor Addison en- ceive manuscripts for publica- lecture. donation is profitable the libra- titled "Falmouth to Woods tion in the October and Novem- Hole." One might suspect the rian asks that each person pur- ber numbers. QUADRANT ELECTRO- conditions epitomized existed chasing a book himself, or re- only before the days of Mr. commending the purchase of a METER MISSING Nickerson's busses, and the book after becoming acquainted Dr. Francis G. Benedict, di- rector schools of flivvers presumably with it through this means of the nutrition labor- A quadrant electrometer has spawning on the banks of the leave a record of the fact on the atory of the Carnegie Institu- disapocared from the confines Eel Pond. Marie Poland Fish bulletin board on the stack. tion of Washington, recently of ihf Laboratory and an ex- has described the habits of sev- Suggestion as to new books de- left Boston to attend the twelfth hau.stive search this summer has eral types of tropical fish occa- sirable to add to this collection International Congress of Phys- failed to reveal any traces as to sionally seen in these waters. will also be welcomed. iology to be held at Stockholm its in August. He will then make whereabouts. It was prob- The sail boat enthusiast receives There are on file in the library an ably lost in 1924 when the anonymous approbation from over thirty thousand separate extended tour of scientific Rockefeller Building was moved "F. E. K." in an article which, reprints, which are becoming institutions in the diflferent Eu- ropean countries, and will return from the edge of the Eel Pond- while interesting, leather fails to constantly more useful to in- to Boston about January 1. to its present site. tell us anything not of general vestigators. Twenty five thous- The instrument is worth well knowledge. and were received during the over two hundred dollars and past year as a result of an ap- The death is announced of M. Book Shop to Close Dr. Hitchcock, its owner, will be peal to members of nine Ameri- Albert Frouin, who for twenty- grateful for any information Of obituary nature, the edi- can scientific societies and the six years has been director of concerning this valuable piece of torial tells us that the Book PTiysiologlcal Society of Eng- the physiological laboratories of apparatus. Shop, so long established in land. These are being indexed the Pasteur Institute, Paris. — THE COLLECTING NET PAGE THRES

WATER SPORTS CHARMING SUMMER law, Mr. Lawrens Seelye of The COLLLECTING NET American University, Beirut, (Continued from Page 1) WEDDING HELD GIVES DANCE Syria, who, with his family, is in this country at present. Probably no feature of the Popular Bride Honored By The staff of The Collecting The matrons-of-honor were day was more popular with the Large Group of Friends Net sponsored a dance that was crowd than the Tub Race, altho Mrs. Laurens Seelye, the bride's held at the M. B. L. Club Satur- the Canoe Tipping ran it a Even the sun peeped forth sister, and Mrs. D. V. Garsten day evening, Augu.st 14. While close second. The winners of from the clouds of fog and rain of New Haven, a cousin. the former event were Miss not very many couples attended, behind which it had been hiding The bride was fortunate in Isabel Morgan for the girls, and a congenial time was enjoyed. the past while, to look upon the having her college classmate. George Duggar for the boys. About twenty couples were pre- pretty wedding of Dorothea Miss Katherine Tyler of Balti- A complete summary of the sent. contest Nesbit Chambers, of Constan- more, the accomplished pianist, follows: An orchestra composed of Boys' Race: 12 years and under tinople, and Donald Blaisdell of to play the wedding music. Jerry Boze, saxophonist, Alice Distance 50 yds. Winner: Lionel New York, at the church of the While the guests were assemb- McNaught. Flynn; Second: John Faggi. violinist, Mrs. Fish- Messiah last Saturday after- ling Miss Tyler played Lar- er, violinist, Girls' Race: 12 years and under and Mr. Fisher, Distance 30 yds. Winner: Letty noon. ghetto from Beethoven's 2nd pianist, made the air lively with Field; Second: Betty Patten. Decorations of smilax, bay- Symphony, Ave Maria by Bach appropriate music. Mr. Fisher Boys' Dive 12 years, and under. added variety to the program by berry, and woodland fern made Gcunod, and Handel's Largo. V/inner: R. Kaltenoora; Second: rendering vocal choruses to the John Faggi. and appropriate background for The bride's entrance was herald- selections. Gir'is' Dive: 12 years and under: the delicate Parisian frocks in ed by the Wedding March from Winner: Letty Field; Second: Betty Through the efforts of Miss Patten. flower colors worn by the bride Lohengrin and the ceremony Pearl Zeek the clubhouse was Boys' Race: 15 and under. Win- and her attendants. closed with the March of Men- very prettily decorated. Some ner: Ben Bacon; Second: A. Madeira. of the floral The bride, as fair as the delsohn. decorations were Time: 30 4-5 seconds. obtained from the house of Dr. lillies which graced the altar, The groom was attended by Girls' Race: 15 and under. Win- Chambers where they had been Isabel Morgan; ner: Second: Vera wore a white georgette dress of his brother, Mr. William Blais- used during the marriage Warbasse. Time: 39 seconds. cere- simple fashion elaborated with dell, and the ushers were: Mr. mony of his niece. Two baskets Boys' Dive: 15 and under. Winner: of Ben Bacon; Second: Eric Warbasse. deep embroidery. Her court D. V. Garsten of New Haven, batchelor buttons which were Girls' Dive: 15 and under. Winner: train of creamy chiffon satin Ahmed Hassan Bey, of Constan- used to decorate the piano at Isabel Morgan; Second: Sara Dun- tinople, Mr. the club, had been previously blos- C. W. Hinton and lap. embroidered with orange Dr. I. H. Page, both of New used by the bridesmaids at the been by Mrs. Boys' Race: 16 and over. Winner: soms had worn York. Their informal white wedding. Eric Warbasse; Second; Pete War- Robert Chambers at her own flannels and dark coats in basse. Time: 27 4-5 seconds. were The dance was considered de- Girls' Race: 16 and over. Winner. wedding and the point lace veil, keeping with the summer pic- lightful by all who attended, and Prisoilla Gurney; Second: Constance an heirloom of Mrs. Doughty- ture. expenses were more than met Prosser. Time: 32 seconds. Wylie, was sent from England After the wedding. Dr. and charging the modest sum of SI Boys' Dive: 16 and over. Winner: Mrs. Chambers gave a reception a couple. Eric Warbasse; Second: Herman for the occasion. at Bobtucket Cottage in honor Field. Miss Dorothy Applegate, of bride Girls' Dive: 16 and over. V/inner; the and groom. The WOODS HOLITES! Constance Prosser; Second: Eleanor maid-of-honor, wore pale green bride received standing on the Sloan. georgette and carried a bouquet same oriental rug on which her THE ENTERPRISE Boys' Relay Race: Won by Rudel in which larkspurs and yellow mother at the British Embassy while you are Marvin, Pete Warbasse, AValter Lil- in Constantinople, as well as the at Woods lie and Dana ALlen. gladioli mingled their blues and Hole this Summer. other brides of the family, had Girls' Relay Race: Won by Isabel golds. Her frock, of the same Published every Saturday. received their wedding guests. Morgan, Molly Wilson and Eleanor 3 Months, 75c design as the sheer pink gowns The relatives Sloan. present were THE ENTERPRISE worn by the matrons-of-honor Mrs. T. C. Blaisdell, of Slippery Boys' Tub Race: Winner: George FALMOUTH, MASS. Duggar. Time 1 min., 20 seconds. and the organist, was long- Rock, Pa., mother of bride- Girls' Tub Race: First Heat: groom; Dr. Mrs. waisted and full skirted and was and Talcott Isabel Morgan; Second Heat: Emily Williams, of New York City, Lillie. Final Heat: Isabel Morgan. bordered at the hem with many Miss Sonia W. Williams of Time: 38 seconds. petaled flowers of the same Boys' Canoe Tilt: First Heat: Eric Bronxville, N. Y., Rev. and Mrs. Warbasse and Bruce Crane. Second material. The flowing sleeves W. F. Williams of Stonington, H. A. DANIELS Heat: J. Ames and Ben Bacon. Final were formed from a shoulder Conn., Professor and Mrs. F. W. Heat: Ames and Bacon. Williams of New Haven, Conn., Giris' Canoe Tilt: Won by Isabel scarf of georgette caught at the WOODS HOLE Master Talcott Seelye, Masters Morgan and Vera Warbasse in one wrist. Graceful wide brimmed heat. Robert, Jr., William Nesbitt, hats of black and fascinating Edward Lucas and Bradford CAPE COD bouquets in pastel pinks, blues, Chambers. and lavenders completed the The out of town guests in- AUTO COMPANY ensemble. cluded Miss Mary Allen, of Wor- ICE CREAM LINCOLN Dorothea and Mary Averett cester, Mass., Mr. and Mrs. Archie A. Coates, of New York Seelye, the two small nieces of FORD FORDSON City, Miss Julia Hall, of Plain- the bride were charming in Authorized Sales and Service field, N. J. and Constantinople, DRINKS dainty flower-girl costumes of Mr. Stanley Knight, of New FALMOUTH, MASS. soft voile printed in sweet-pea Haven, Miss Mabel Nelson, of colors over green crepe de New York City, Mr. and Mrs. C. F. A. Pantin, of chine slips. Plymouth, England, Dr. E. Grace White, of REFRESHMENTS THE The bride, a Bryn Mawr and Chambersburg, Pa., Mrs. J. S. COLEMAN & BELL Columbia graduate, who has Winslow, of Fort Bragg, N. C, COMPANY been devoting her time to wel- and Miss Helen Gunther, of Incorporated fare and educational work in Englewood, N. J. Manufacturing Chemists Turkey was given away by her There were present also a Open from 8:30 A. M. large number of Woods Hole NORWOOD, OHIO cousin, Dr. Robert Chambers of friends who had known the Until 11:00 P. M. U. S. A. Woods Hole and New York, and bride on her previous visits was married by her brother-in- here. : : : PAGE FOUR THE COLLECTING NET

tcdianship of an experienced shown how to operate them. the laboratory is known The Collecting l\et worker who is ready to assume The system of requiring the throughout the world for its lack its administration. Issued under the auspices of the obligations involved in ex- worker to sign before entering of red tape in is excellent of library The M. B. L. Club change for the privilege of hav- the balance room an The government the ing Che balances in his room. plan. This fixes the responsi- and the "honor system" incorp- One wonders, however, if this bility, and he is likely t6 leave orated therein is worthy of comi- Vol. 1. No. Aug. 19. 1926 is the best possible solution. We things in perfect condition. His mendation. Any person con- learn that little or no damage immediate superior might be nected with the laboratory, (or Club Officers has been done since the adoption the next to use the balances! those who are not for that mat- is it necessary to lock the ter) may enter the stacks at any D. J. Edwards Pres. of this sj'stem, but we are con- But

balance rooms? If it is, can not time unquestioned ; books may C. C. Speidel Vice-Pres. fident that hand in hand with will. are M. Sampson Sec.-Treas. this improvement goes greater the key be placed in their im- be taken out at They vicinity lab- these priv- Florence Tinkham.Cftai)-. House Com. inconvenience and less usage of mediate where any treated with respect; it at Marion Rea Chair. Social Com. the balances. For two reasons oratory worker can obtain ileges are not abused. Why? one might hesitate to weigh ma- any time, and yet without incon- Because we have been placed up- terial when under normal con- veniencing himself or any one on our honor and realize our re- Editorial Staff ditions he would not think of else? sponsibilities; and because we Ware Cattell, Managing Editor, Helen doing otherwise. They are The following plan is humbly understand the treatment that H. Cattell, Anna C. Dunlap, Thomas (1) The time taken in locat- submitted should be accorded these tools. P. Hughes, A. Rang-er Tyler, Associ- ing the key, and the possibility (1) Place one of the Harvard ate Editors. of not being able to obtain i.t on Trip scales (the total value of In compiling the list of mem- Contributing Editors reaching the designated room. which falls under 820.00) in bers of the National Academy of (2) The reluctance of the once of the general laboratory Sciences working in the labora- A. S. Eichorn. . .Bi(reau of Fisheries younger workers to trouble floor. these tory this summer the name of Helen Jennings Toivn Topics rooms on each With those investigators in charge of scales it is possible to determine Professor Lorando Loss Wood- J. M. Fogg Sports the key who are older and busier the weight of a ten gram mass ruff was inadvertantly omitted. than they. to an accuracy of at least one Dr. Woodruff, who is Professor Gravity The object of the Laboratory per cent. In probably 95 per of Zoology at Yale University, is, of course, to make arrange- cent of the cases where the and has been on the Staff of In- The editorial appearing under ments whereby its apparatus weight of a material must be struction of the Marine Biologi- the heading of "Restrictions" can best forward scientific re- determined, the nature of the ex- cal Laboratory since 1905, is has been successful in provoking search. This policy is not nec- periment does not warrant more asked to accept our apologies a considerable amount of dis- essarily carried out by guard- precise measurements. This omission would not have, and has thus perhaps its so that it is cussion, ing equipment (2) Supervise in the most ef- occurred had it been possible to purpose. To the served a useful easily accessible only to fective manner the use of the locate a list of the present mem- of some it seems that both sides older and experienced investiga- more expensive balances. Two bers of the academy at the time not equally the question were tors. plans are possible. the note was written. We are considered, and the purpose of Locking the balance rooms (a) To retain the present glad to learn that the year book this note is to bring out some apparently does not actually plan, preferably modifying it in of the association is about lo be facts which were perhaps not prevent a novice from using the some way to make it somewhat placed in our library. known to their full extent at the scales and he is just about as less drastic. time the editorial in question likely to carry off weights or In this column last week it was written. weigh caustic soda without a (b) To place the better bal- ances in the rooms of the older was stated that the laboratory It is with consternation that container whether he has to investigators. responsi- discontinued publishing the eve- we learn the extent of the mis- hunt up a key or not. An ana- Here a ning lectures in book form in use of the balances of the lab- logous situation might be the ble person will be in the immed- 1921. The date instead should oratory. In 1924 and 1925 ig- case of the autoclave that was iate vicinity for a greater part of time. have been 1899. norance or carelessness resulted rather severely damaged by fail- the in the damaging of balances to ure to remove the flame until Of the latter two possibilities the extent of 8150.00; and last after the water had boiled away. (b) would obviously better safe- CONGRESS OF summer a set of weights certi- Had the autoclave been locked guard the apparatus from in- PLANT SCIENCES fied and standardized by the in a special room and the key injury due to ignorance or care- Bureau of Standards was inca- only available after signing for lessness. pacitated. The cost of replac- it, the accident would not have Placing the Trip scales in sep- An event of interest to ing lost parts and replating the been prevented. (The writer is arate rooms from the more ex- laboratory workers in botany weights with gold would have intimately acquainted with the pensive balances would have the is the meeting of the Inter- been equal to the cost of a new investigator, 'and knows where- two distinct advantages (1) of national Congress of Plant set of weights or §67.50. Al- of he speaks!) serving research better by mak-. Sciences at present in session at ready this year one of the five If these unfortunate condi- ing the operation of weighing Cornell University. No gather- kilogram balances has been tions under consideration are material as simple as possible; ing of like scope has been held seriously injured and the esti- caused by the carelessness of (2) of reducing greatly the un- since the session of the Third mate given for its repair is those making measurements it necessary use of the high pre- International Botanical Con- SIOO.OO. Four sets of ten milli- is a difficult situation. Investi- cision apparatus. It will do gress at Brussels in 1910. This gram riders have disappeared. gators and their assistants must much toward checking the in- Congress has never before con- Due to the deleterious effects of realize their responsibility. herent tendency to weigh mate- vened in this country. Dr. B. calcium chloride on the posts They must exercise the care in rial on precision balances when M. Duggar is general secretary and of sulphuric acid on the the use of precision apparatus biological factors and physical for the congress. The Congress wood work a 8150.00 balance that they would use when work- conditions introduce errors far is intended to bring together has been recently sold for ing with their own microscopes greater than those involved in leaders in all fields of botanical $10.00. and other delicate equipment. weighing on the Harvard Trip science, including plant chemis- If the facts were not indisput- But if they are due to ignor- balances. On authority we learn try, phytopathology, bacterio- able it would be difficult to be- ance the laboratory is in part that the atmospheric conditions logy, pharmacognosy and phar- lieve that such things would oc- responsible for the treatment of Woods Hole cause (unless maceutical botany, agronomy, cur at the hands of research accorded to their balances. professional technique is used) horticulture and forestry. The workers in an institution of this Directions for their use and the a three per cent error in the meetings will last from August kind. Protective action of some precautions that must be taken weighing of half gram samples. 16 to August 23. character was imperative and, should be clearly written and The present system is object- Among those attending from the locking of the balance-rooms prominently displayed. Unless ed to on two grounds the Marine Biological Labora- and the placing of the key in an individual can give satisfac- (1) Investigation is actually tory are Ethel Stippler, W. R. semi-inaccessible quarters was tory indications that he is thor- hampered by the inconveniences Taylor, S. B. Brooks, F. Hol- resorted to. It is interesting to oughly familiar with their use involved; (2) it hurst our sense lander, J. B. Scott, J. R. note however that the balances and care, perhaps permission to of pride and honor to feel that Schramm, B. M. Duggar, B. of highest precision are not use the balances might not be we can not be trusted. Nemec, Professor and Madame locked, but are under the cus- granted until he was personally Restrictions here are few and Domin. THE COLLECTING NET PAGE FIVE

THE SEA URCHIN A prises WOODS HOLE CONFERENCE ON i of the National Research ^°""'^"'- ' Evidence of interest DCCCADr-iJ IM A litir'niA-. 1 xi ^^. , •-. .^ ^ r, and of IT PRICKS RESEARCH IN AMERICAN COLLEGES action on the part of a group within WITHOUT a college, . such as the Research Com- DISCRIMINATION Twenty Four Colleges Send Representatives to Conference Here "ep^sentaUve^'f^m ^o^l^ge^ Tthl A certain individual will conferences already held will both The promotion of productive scholarship in American colleges was the serve to emphasize the importance probably be surprised to note of subject discussed at a conference of college and university representatives the movement to the chairman of the the sparsity of references to him held at the M. B. L. on Tuesday, August 17th. This and two similar con- division of Educational Relations of ferences held in Washing-ton in December 1924 and March 1925, owe their the National Research Council, and in the column this week. It is origin to the enthusiasm for research and initiative of Dr. Maynard Met- may hasten the appointment of a re- unfortunate that in the issue of calf, and to the realization by individuals and by institutions of the presentative from the division who necessity of encouraging research in American colleges. shall hold conferences with college August 5, there accidentally ap- .\t the first conference, which four- faculties. The National Research peared three notes concerning teen representatives of ten institu- some of the reasons why he, as a Council once convinced of the impor- this person. "Hold" was tions attended, factors militating university professor, was interested tance of the project can succeed in against research and methods of fa- in this movement to promote research obtaining- financial support if it is marked on the galley proof be- | cilitating research were outlined. in American colleges. At the present,.needed. Dr. McClung„ suggested„„ - that side couple of these pricks, a The possibility of forming a national time a large proportion of graduate if the colleges use the resources al- take full j but the printer did not organization was discussed and a students come from small colleges, ' ready available in furthering pro- cognizance of the general physi- committee was elected to formulate a receiving their inspiration for re- . ductive scholarship, the National Re- project. This search from teachers in insti- search Council will then be in a posi- ological fact that the reactions committee, consisting these | of C. E. McClung, tutions. It is desirable to relieve tion to ask for support for such evoked by intermittent stimula- Pi-ofessor of Zoology of the University of Penn- such teachers from heavy teaching . research. tion are far greater than those sylvania; Maynard M. Metcalf, schedules, and to supply them with Dr. Metcalf then gave a brief re- continued ex- Chairman of the Division of Biology adequate equipment that they may port of the results of the previous resulting from | and Agriculture be encouraged to continue their conferences, and stated that it citation. of the National Re- own was search Council, serving as Chairman research and interest undergraduates now realized by those interested in of the Committee; John A. MuUer, in productive work. This proposed the plan that the initiative should It is rumored that when a Vice plan of betterment of the academic President, Swarthmore College, , prominent member of the col- and Professor of Mathematics and life in colleges is one of the enter- (Continued on Page 8) Astronomy; lecting ci-ew combed his hair the George D. Olds, Presi- dent. Amherst College; Anne Young, he discovered a fish- other day Professor of Astronomy, Mount Hol- hook that he had been missing yoke College, arranged for a second for the past three weeks. conference to be held in Washington on March 20th, 1926. Invitations SHARE IN Miss Impi Arvo and J. J. were sent to colleges throughout tht? country requesting announced their en- that the College Murphey send the President, the Dean or some to gagement in a novel ma'nner member of the faculty interested in a large group of their friends en the promotion of research as a repre- CAPE AND VINEYARD ELECTRIC August 7 at 10 :37 P. M. It has sentative to this conference. already been rumored that Miss Twenty-four colleges sent repre- sentatives. A project was Arvo has made reservations for submitted and discussed. Methods already in COMPANY EARNINGS the train leaving on the ap- operation in different colleges for the proaching Saturday for Reno, encouragement of research were out- Neb. lined, and suggestions offered for in- creasing the opportunities and the stimulus for research in American Invest in your local public utility and share COAST GUARD PICKS colleges. in its earnings. It was agreed that a research com- UP CHINESE JUNK mittee in each college could do much to foster interest in research on the Whether your income is small or large you part of the faculty and the adminis- can put your dollars to work with assur- Many people in Woods Hole tration; and that recognition by such an organization as the National Re- ance of steady dividends at 6%. interest the dra- watched with search Council would facilitate gon colored Chinese junk that the work of such committees. After a day of discussion it was voted to offer the Hole during We you passed through request the Division of Educational the latter part of July. The Relations of the National Research Cape & Vineyard Electric Com- Council to organize a committee or which sailed across the pany Cumulative Preferred Shares "Amoy", board to s.tudy the promotion of pro- ce $100. Dividends Pacific in 87 days three years ductive scholarship among teachers in 6%S payable .•Vmerican colleges. A committee, ago, was taken in by the Coast January 1, April July consisting of Professor Mary Calkins 1, 1, October 1. Guard boat in Long Island of Wellesley College, Chancellor Sound last week for carrying Samuel Capen of the University of You Chinese men who could not pro- Buffalo, Professor Edward Ellery, can purchase as you save by paying dtan of Union college or passports. On finding that and secretary $5 $10 a share down. $5 or $10 can duce of Sigma Xi; Professor C. E. Mc- then be paid on each share monthly. Inter- the two men in question were Clung of the University of Pennsyl- est at a year will students, one at Harvard and vania, and Dr. Maynard Metcalf, 6% be paid on these small the other at the Massachusetts chairman division of biology and payments from the day they are agriculture. National Institute of Technology, ihe Research Coun- made. cil; presented this request accom- "Amoy" was released. panied by a detailed report of the The junk, sails and all, is preliminary conferences, an argu- painted in brilliant primary ment for the project presented, and Behind this issue there are Ask any employee or the a plan of organization of such an colors, and is decorated with ad- assets amounting to more nearest Cape & Vinej^ard ministrative committee as that sug- than dragon's eyes. Although retain- gested in the project. $300 a share. Electric Company office. 'ng the of outward appearance The Division of Educational Rela- its original state it has been fit- tions considered the request at its ted out with modern plumbing meetings in 192.5 and 1926 and voted and other conveniences. The that the chairman be asked to secure Associated Gas and Electric some representative of the division craft, though sixty-eight feet who could represent its interest; and long, draws only four feet of aid in promoting research by means Securities Company water. Alfred Nilson, an au- of a series of conferences with the colleges thor, is its captain. concerned. At the conference held at the M. B. L. twenty-one institutions were OFFICES OF Mr. D. M. DeForest, of Union represented List of representatives may be included; College, broke one of the bones see page 5. Dr. Cape and Vineyard Electric Company in his hight arm in July while Goodrich of Wesleyan acted as chair- man and Dr. Sampson of Smith cranking the Ford of Professor Col- FALMOUTH HYANNIS CHATHAM OAK BLUFFS lege as secretary. At the request of H. K. Svenson. the chairman, Dr. McClung stated - PAGE SIX THE COLLECTING NET CZECHO-SLOVAKIAN SUNDAY ON THE WATER MINISTER HERE THE SEA ROBIN The difficulty of rowing the whale boat through the Hole Breakfast, Dinner, Supper Czecho-Slovakian Minis- conditions was The under adverse Afternoon Tea ter to the Court of St. James, clearly demonstrated on Sunday that M. Jan. Masaryk, with Mme. afternoon. It is believed the constant negative accelera- MRS. CRITTENDEN Masaryk (nee Frances Crane) ITili tion of the craft was responsible Phone: 667-3 arrived at Woods Hole recently for the decision of Capt. S. that GLEANED from Prague, where they had there were other spots just as PRESSEI? lyVETf : been visiting the Minister's ideal for his picnic as the one ALTEI^ED father, President T. G. Masaryk originally decided upon. ROBINSON of Czecho-Slovakia, and will PHARMACY spend the month of August On _:Tiine those bathing on (Iris) vacationing and seeing o 1 d Among Wheeler and friends- in Woods Hole, after Sunday were Phil DRUG STORE SERVICE which they will spend some time two friends who arrived off Juniper Point before the canoe in Canada on official business TEL. FALMOUTH 212 before returning to London. turned over in which they had been paddling. Due to the cur- rent and wind a swim of about Healy, a mem- Mr. Daniel C. a hundred yards was in order, collecting crew, suf- ber of the and successfully made. ParkTailoringShop fered a broken radius bone in M. DOLINSKY & CO. WILLIAM SCHLEPARK, Prop. his forearm and several torn in his wrist, when the Tailors Men's and Women's ligaments Skipper C. made a brave at- motor dory, engine of the tempt to convey a group of his Fine Tailoring while he was MAIN STREET Marjorie, kicked friends to the East Gutter on Cleaning, Repairing and start it. on the after- trying to Sunday morning in his trusty WOOD'S HOLE, MASS. Pressing July 28. He was rushed noon of sail boat. Adverse circumstances NEW WEEKS BUILDING in Boston, where FALMOUTH, MASS. to the hospital of varied nature prevented the proper treatment was given the completion of his trip. It is member. Mr. Healy the broken thought that one of the contri- recuperating in Woods is now buting factors was the peculiar expected to have the Hole and is psychological reactions produced THE full use of his arm in about five upon all who board this famous weeks. vessel. SCI ENTI FIC Woods Hole, although a mere speck on the map, is a busy little DONNELLY'S BEAUTY place just the same. Not only SHOPPE MONTH LY does it allure people to come, Marcel and Water Waving; and charm them to stay for the Permanent Waving, La Mur System; Head and Facial FOR AUGUST months, but our little summer Treatment town also is a witness to much Robinson's Pharmacy BIdg The Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research. Professor John travel. Last week a number of Main St., Upper Floor M. Coulter. people were unable to board one Falmouth, Mass. Parrots At Home. Dr. Alexander Wetmore. of the boats for the Island as Tel. 589-2 for appointment it was filled to capacity. Hunting Bighorn With a Camera. Dr. Vernon Kellogg. The Progress of Public Health In China. Dr. Reginald M. Atwater. Politics and the Public Health. James A. Tobey. Excursions In Experimental Psychology. Professor Raymond Dodge. Cat at tf)e The Birth of Modern Science. John K. Robertson. The Friendship of Two Old-Time Naturalists. J. S. Wade. Geologic Romance of the Finger Lakes. Professor Herman L. Fairchiiid. Sbeal Eegtaurant Radio Talks On Science: The Planet Mars, James Stokley; How Plants Behave When Diseased, ProfessoV B. M. Duggar. The Peculiarities of the Sensation of Cold. Professor D. Fraser You can not get a better meal in town Harris. The Progress of Science: Electric Farming; A Queer Kettle; Pro- fessor Lucien Gallois; Variation of the Sun's Heat.

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Woods Hole Conference LABORATORY t^ MEMBERS DEPART (Continued from Page 5) The Elizabeth Theatre A list of people who have been come from the colleges. He further MASS. eating at the Mess and have left FALMOUTH, suggested that as a first step an at- town since last Friday is given tempt be made to establish research HIGH CLASS PHOTOPLAYS colleges which should below committees in Starts at 7.45 — Feature Picture at 8.30 C. Show work to secure cooperation of faculty Paul Beaver, P. W. Bowman, S. Helen J. Brown, Sidney Short Reels Repeated After the Feature Picture. and administration, and support for Brooks, Britten, C. J. Connolly, Oliver Mc- 8.30 research within the college. The suc- A COMPLETE SHOW AFTER Coy, George Daniels, J. E. Drajn;on, cessful operation of such committees Saturday Two Shows at 7.00 and 9.00 O'clock Helen Dyer, Mrs. J. E. Dyer, J. M. in universities was described by Pro- at 2.30 Fogg, Gladys Gordon, Ira Hansen, Matinees Monday, Wednesday and Saturday fessor McClung and Dr. Chidester. and Mrs. F. Hollander, G. H. Rogers gave an account of the Dr. Dr. Humphreys, W. Jackman, Elizabeth organization of such a committee at Kinney, Dr. and Mrs. M. M. Loucks, Thursday, August 19 Monday, August 23 Oberlin and the advantages already Al Lucas, Helen Miller, Donald B. obtained through it. Dr. Rowland Mrs. J. Musgrave, Olive C. gave an interesting account of the McMullen, "SPARROWS" INTO HER KINGDOM" Robin Riche, A. C. Severing- successful drive for a research fund Nelson, Shultzz, Joseph Taussig, Pickford conducted at the Washington haus, Jack With Mary With Corinne Griffiths recently Miss Willard, Ferris Square College of the City of New W R. Tavlor, Chao-Fa Wu, Pearl Zeek. York by a member of the English Woods, Friday, August 20 Tuesday, August 24 departnient. thus indicating what can be done by an individual in a college The International Congress of "MY OLD DUTCH" "MAN TRAPPED" toward promoting research. Dr. a five-day Hogue and Dr. Collett spoke in Physiology opened With Mary McAvoy With Clara Bow favor of obtaining a representative session at Stockholm on August from the National Research Council presidency of Pro- Saturday, August 21 Wednesday, August 25 to stimulate college faculties to en- 1 under the of the policy of gage in research; fessor J. E. Johansson. There consultation trips from colleges to "ROLLING HOME" "The BLACK PIRATE" in attend- universities; of exchange of instruc- were 567 delegates between With Reginald Denny With Douglas Fairbanks tors between colleges and ance, the United States and Ger- and universities. colleges each, and The following resolutions were many sending 100 drawn up: France and England 40 each. approves 1. That the conference B that research commit- the suggestion "Gravity" of the tees be established in American The heading encouragement of colleges for the first editorial has a double sig- W C DAVIS-COMPANY research. nificance which perhaps may 2. That it favors the nlan of the Relations of obvious to FURNISHERS Educational immediately HOME Division of not be the National Research Council to ap- all. FALMOUTH MASS point a representative to visit col- leges to discuss the promotion of re- search. On August 13th at 3 P. M. the National It was voted to request the annual exhibition of the work When Looking for Reliable Research Council to finance the send- of Merchandise Try ing of reports on the project to the done by pupils of the School with colleges known to be interested, Science was held in the Woods the proposal that those interested in the creation of research committees Hole Schoolhouse. A large and ARENOVSKI'S research in or otherwise furthering interested group of parents and Est. 1892 Phone 410 their institutions send written state- ments to this effect to the National friends attended. The Home of Research Council. Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothing the It w-as generally agreed that Among the famous gigglers Lamson & Hubbard Hats following procedure might best be Printzess Suits, Coats and followed: the creation of research of the world will go down the to promote re- Dresses committees in colleges names of Miss L. T. and Miss search within the institution by every in the of Sport possible method; the election of a H. J. It has been suggested that Everything Way consultation with Clothes liaison member for a contest be staged between similar members of committees in Shoes other colleges: a small executive com- them to determine th champion. Walk-Over elected by liaison members to mittee, Satisfaction Guaranteed or act for them in aiding research. 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TOWN TOPICS JUNGLE LABORATORY DESCRIBED BY DR. FISH Plymouth Laboratory Marjorie Veeder In spite of all superstitions to Biological Center in England 1905-1826 the contrary the evening of Miss Marjorie Veeder's sud- Friday, August the 13th, was a den death on Tuesday is a fortunate one for the laboratory Our Sister Institution Has Resident Staff great shock to everyone, and workers and others who were to those who knew her in her privileged to hear a most inter- Throughout The Year work in the library is especiallj- esting lecture given by Dr. H. D. hard. Miss Veeder had been Fish, professor of zoology at the assisting in the library since University of Pittsburgh, en- DR. C. F. A. PANTIN November, 1925. Everyone titled "Biology Students in who came into contact witli British Guiana." The Laboi'a- The land of the Pilgrim Fathers sees today the greatest her enjoyed her brightness and tory of Tropical Biology has development of marine biology in America; the M. B. L. of her friendliness, and all feel been operated during the sum- Woods Hole. By an odd coincidence their old home at the deepest sympatiTy for her mer of 1924, 1925 and 1926 at Plymouth in England now leads mai'ine biology in the parents and her family. Kartabo, British Guiana, under the supervision of Dr. Fish and British Isles. members of the staff. The desire for intellectual i sheet of miles freedom which made the Pil- water about two We are very sorry to hear of The idea at Kartabo has been square surrounded on three to provide opportunity in- grims leave Devon was part of the unfortunate accident that and sides by land, and to the south spiration for students the spirit of Plymouth town, I happened August 20th to Gil- of tropi- partly closed from the open sea cal biology, and it seemed to King Charles bert Denham of Falmouth, when and for this purpose by a large breakwater. the II that there was more of this And a delivery truck driven by him it is unusually well situated, be- old builders spirit than was consistent with had so arranged collided with the morning train ing located at the junction of matters that two great ramparts the mignty royal dignity. So to make sure from Woods Hole. The train Mazaruni ana on the seaward side enclosed an Cayuni rivers, in the that no unfortunate incidents hit the vehicle broadside, knock- heart of a ideal site for a marine labora- tropical rain forest should occur, the King, in 1666, ing the car some distance and which tory. This the site selected built a citadel; a fine citadel on was seriously injuring its driver. stretches some 2000 miles to the two hundred and twenty-two south Plymouth Hoe, where Drake had Denham was leaving the freight and west, probably the years later by the Marine Bio- most played bowls. It commands a otRce and his car stalled on the extensive and little known logical Association of the United jungle splendid view of the sound, a tracks. Although the train was area in the world. Kingdom for the building of slowing down to make a stop Very interesting colored lan- their laboratory. collision unavoidable. tern slides the was were shown of The Tide in the Hole The association draws it.=! Denham was treated by Dr. T. Georgetown, the capital of Brit- members mainly from the uni- A. Wiswall, and rushed to the ish Guiana, including the beau- At the following hours the versities of Great Britain and Cape Cod hospital at Hyannis. tiful and diverse botanical gar- current in the Hole turns to from among those people who He is reported in a serious con- dens and the polyglot population run from Buzzards Bay to are interested on the applica- dition, having a fracture of the nifide vp principally of negroes Vineyard Sound: tions of marine biology, particu- spine. We wish him a speedy and East Indians with a fair larly Aug. 28 9:26 P.M. to fishery problems. The recovery. sprinklijig of English, Portu- Aug. 29 10:25 P.M. M. B. A. laboratory is supported guese, Chinese, and an occa- Aug. 30 11:25 P.M. partly by private benefactions, We extend our heartiest con- sional aboriginal red skin. Aug. 31 partly by subscriptions from gratulations to Mr. W. 0. Lus- The audience was then con- Sept. 1 12:29 A.M. members and partly by a gov- combe, who celebrated his 75th ducted on a trip by steamer Sept. 2 1:29 A.M. ernment grant. Although it birthday at his home on Nobska some 60 miles up the Essequibo Sept. 3 2:25 A.M. was founded at about the same Road, Thursday, August 19th. river to the government penal time as the Sept. 4 3:15 A.M. M. B. L., its growth A dinner party was given him colony from where a launch was has Sept. 5 3:57 A.M. not been so rapid. But ad- by his immediate family, 'and a taken to the laboratory three ditions Sept. 6 4:39 A.M. during the last few years large, lighted birthday cake was miles further on. have Sept. 7 5:12 A.M. doubled former laboratory ceremoniously brought in by his accommodation, Views were then shown of the Sept. 8 6:00 A.M. which is now two small grandchildren, Anita about jungle trails, the tangle and Sept. 9 6:28 A.M. equal to that of the old and Betsy Luscombe. A recep- building mystery of the "great bush" Sept. 11 7:14 A.M. of the M. B. L. Under tion was given him later in the the able direction itself, the streams, the Indians, Sept. 11 7:49 A.M. of Dr. E. J. afternoon by his numerous Allen, F. R. S., their villages, their primitive Sept. 12 8:26 A.M. who has long friends. The house was prettily been in charge, method of preparing food, Sept. 13 9:14 A.M. the laboratory decorated for the occasion, and is today a which were perfect in detail, Sept. 14 9:58 A.M. most active center of filled with bouquets of flowers. biological research. and complete in story. Sept. 15 10:41A.M. He received gifts, among many than 100 slides of ani- The object of the M. B. / . More each case the current In • which was a beautiful young mals were shown including those laboratory is two-fold. On tl changes six hours later and mare, given by his wife and his of the only photographs ever one hand it provides accomm runs from the Sound to the son. taken of the fresh water Esse- dation for visiting biologists Bay.

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THE BABY REVOLUTION Overdressed Babies: of the Harvard Medical School THE JUNGLES OF We're all dressed up all the live- Department of Anatomy is BRITISH long day spending a two-week period GUIANA (The following skit was written With stiff white suits and hair here. apropos of the recent events on the V-Wake far in bows. trailing, off southward which it was bathing beach during Dr. we re sailing certain can't have any fun this way Dr. C. P. Rhoades and revealed for the first time to We Toward the Carribean Sea. that the Percy Davidson, of the Boston members of the laboratory Nurse! Can we take off our Sky opal-bright with white tropical exposure of infants to the direct rays clothes? City Hospital Laboratory spent light. of the sun is considered to have a Nice Nurses: Horace! Per- the week end here. Water rich blue that is deep—dark as pernicious influence on adult minds. night. clval! Come away! Don't look It is based on actual occurrences in The Palo Company, which has Thunder heads stately; great bundles which laboratory members, the police at those children ! Their mothers of fleece, priest and been giving an exhibition of department, a Catholic have no shame for their sex. Tinted with rose-pink and shaded scientific apparatus in the Old natives of Wood's Hole took part.) Overdressed Babies: What's cerise. Lecture Hall during the past ' shame? What's sex? They can Lightning and rain in our lea! week, has lost a pair of Busch sandy play a lot better without any Scene: A stretch of Prism Binoculars (8x Ultralux Water-soaked rot-blackened, wabbl- Mass. clothes on. ing stump, beach at Woods Hole, Model). Mr. Ball who was in Chief of Police : Come in here, Olive-green, storm - scattered July 28, 1926. charge of the exhibit will be Time: you, who do you think you are, weed. grateful if any information con- Waves dimple - cheeked and with Characters : Wild Wives; JEarl Carroll? Put some clothes icerning them can be given to bright silver flecked. Sensible Husbands; Nice on them kids, or I'll have you up Mr. McNaught. "Bone-in-our-teeth" that is rainbow Nurses; A Lot of Babies; The for moral turp. bedecked. Double arched Chief of Police; a Quahaug Dig- Wild Wives: What harm does the spectra through gray The Commonwealth, one of shower mist; ger. it do? Who's the camplainant? regular steamers of the Fall Reds, yellows, greens, backed by dull Police : Father John, As the curtain goes up, con- Chief of River Line was towed to New- amethyst, priest the line. He's afraid fusion and lack of order seem to a up port on Saturday due to a slight Glo,w, shift and mount, fade, for your morals. recede. be main motif. The babies in- crack which appeared in its crawling away from Wild Wives: More likely for sist on crank shaft. It will probably Gliding o'er, sliding his medicine. Here come our o'er, riding o'er their mothers and burrowing in not be back on duty until Labor swells. husbands, they'll back us up, the sand. For this reason a Day. Gently come, silently gone! quahaug digger (sometimes and we'll take it to court. Dipping and slipping and gi-acefully tipping. clam-digger) has been Sensible Husbands: dears, called Dr. and Mrs. R. P. Cowles and Cables slow swinging of course it's much healthier or tarpaulin selected as stage director. He their two daughters of Balti- whipping! for the kids to be without leisurely (he's a native) digs out more are spending a few weeks Washing and swashing waves, never clcthes; and they like it a lot the babies and tosses them back at Woods Hole. Dr. Cowles is at rest; better; and we haven't any Choppy waves, sloppy waves breaking to the Wild Wives. Due to his associate Professor of Zoologj' a crest! see that there are objection ourselves, but efforts we can at Johns Hopkins University, Steadily, readily on! Naked Babes : Daddy ! What's two groups on the sand, which and is working at the Labora- the matter with our bodies? can be roughly classified as the torv here. Darkness and cascades of phosphor- Overdressed Babies and their Why can't we go without ous light; clothes? Life-flares in waters that leap! keepers and the Underdressed Dr. L. L. Woodruff, Professor Sensible Husbands: Well, you Yellow-blue fire-balls in gray foam Babies and their mothers. The of Protozoology at Yale Univer- of night! see, children, some of you are former seem puny and listless; sity will take charge of the Pro- Bowings and flowdngs and glowings boys, and some of you are girls, so bright! sturdy, tanned, and tozoology course at the Marine the latter different. Flurrying, hurrying, flight. and your bodies are Hiologlical Laboratory for the scurrying extremely active. The Sensible Whirling and swirling and furling That is, well—-er—boys and succeeds Dr. season of 1927. He from sight! Husbands are at the time work- girls shouldn't play together Calkins during the absence of Passions aflame in the deep. in the Laboratory or golfing. shouldn't se.^ ing naked. The sexes the latter in Europe. The Chief of Police can be seen each other naked. Put on your Pelican perched on a slow floating out from log! now and then peering clothes. Jack Fogg left Woods Hole on Gulls craning necks o'er our beach-plum tree. Naked Babes: Oh, we know behind a Tuesday to join a Botanical ex- stern. what sex and shame are. First Wild Wife: My hus- now ploring expedition to Newfound- Dolphins, abreast of the bow-wave's Their frank and unashamed swift crest, band is a specialist on the thera- land. Dr. M. L. Fernald, Pro- glances turn furtive and abash- Rolling and turning and jumping peutic value of sun's rays on the fessor of Botany at Harvard their backs on one vdth zest! ed ; they turn University, heads the expedition. human body. He says the rays Flying-fish slith'ring up, flittering another and without taking the of the party good than all the pink The third' member taif, do more time to put clothes on, burrow ever is Bayard Long of the Phila- Lonp- fins far stretching, skimmering, pills Lydia Pinkham in the sand. Hank rapidly out of sight delphia Academy of Sciences. sail thought about. My boy The Wives and Husoands call Gracefully banking a turn! has never been sick a day in his loudly for the Stage Director to Oak Bluffs was the scene of West point of Cuba! Pigeons in flocks gets a long sun-bath belongs life, and he dig them out; but as he a series of ten raids conducted Fast winging toward Yucatan. every day. to the Quahaug Diggers' Union, almost simultaneously by Pro- Fin of a shark like a scimiter dark! o'clock. Small school of whales that are out Second Wild Wife: I cured he has quit at five hibition Officials, on Saturday attack Curtain. for a lark! my little Jack of a bad evening shortly before seven. a slow- Johyi Copeland Smoke-trail far South and of eczema by sun baths. Let's Eight persons were taken into moving "tanker," breeze take their suits off, so they can custody and fifty thousand dol- Speedy white "Fruit boat!" A that's a spanker! the sun and salt water the NOTES lars of alcoholic fluid was con- enjoy Tan stinging skin that is wan. fiscated. Several members of our way Nature intended them to! H. D. F. The Honorable William M. coast guard station here assisted Ws. : Let's. Senator Chorus of W. Butler, United States in the foray on the illict liquor Dr. Milton Fairchild, distin- undressing is from Massachusetts, has made dealers. Process of in two visits to Woods Hole during guished educator, arrived rapid, and half a dozen brown the past two weeks. His motor Woods Hole on August 22. Dr. bodies sprawl in the white sand The Sunday Standard of Aug. no little Fairchild is author of many yacht, Akbar. excited half or splash gleefully in the waves. 22 devotes a page and a fields of the Charac- comment as it lay moored to the books in the to an illustrated account of the Naked Babies: Cayadetta dock last Sunday ter Education and has been work of Dr. and Madam Paul S. will stage on the evening. chairman of the Character Edu- A revolt we Galtsoff, who are studying vari- cation Institution of Washing- sand. ous phases of the oyster pro- Dr. Fred Stewart, Assistant ton, D. C. since 1911. He is Our rights to be free we de- blem: It features photographs in Bacteriology at the Rockefel- touring, taking an automobile mand, of Dr. and Madam Galtsoff, and ler Institute, has been visiting ins- Eden's first pair showing the trip to inspect the research Like for the past an attractive picture in Woods Hole titutions of the country, and No clothes will we wear. week. Bureau of Fisheries Wharves Though we're breaking the Law with Crane's wharf and Juniper plans to remain with us for about of the Land. Mr. Harold L. Weatherford Point in the background. a week. —

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The Plymouth Laboratory cation to the director. This side The season is different at Ply- Dr. Cobb Talks On of the laboratory's activities is mouth from that at Woods Hole. Importance of Nema Study (Continued from Page 1) assuming an ever increasing im- The resident workers keep the portance, for, as with the M. B. laboratory open the whole year, who wish to do research there. L., the number of visiting inves- Nematodes and the lack of This side of its activities is quite tigators increases rapidly every an arrangement rendered possi- scientific interest in them was parallel to the M. B. L. On the year. The increase is largely ble by the very mild winters of the subject of an informal lec- other hand, the association main- due to the formation of a de- Devonshire. The fauna is at its ture last tains a staff of about twelve re- partment for general physiology best at two distinct periods: (1) Thursday evening in search workers who remain per- and experimental biology with Mai'ch to June and (2) the end the smoking room of the Fish manently at the laboratory. This quite adequate means for the of August to the beginning of Commission residence by Dr. N. enables marine problems of all the October. visitors many purchase and upkeep Many come at A. Cobb of the U. S. Depart- to be attacked which can only necessary apparatus which such these times and courses are run ment of Agriculture. Dr. Cobb be studied effectively if observa- a department demands. The de- for students, one in March in deplored tions are made continually over partment was only formed since general marine biology, and one the fact that nematol- ogy with its long stretches of time ; such, for the war, but it now accounts for in September, an advanced valuable opportun- example, as the study of sea- fifty per cent of the research course in comparative physi- ities for experimentation is so the plankton. sonal variations in undertaken by visitors at the ology. The classes are, how- neglected by scientists, declar- of strict industrial ever, Problems station. much smaller than those ing that the destruction to already investi- of the applications are Material is collected partly on M. B. L. plants and the diseases to hu- at various laboratories of foot gated the shore. The seventeen Although the M. B. A. labora- mans which nematodes cause al- The associa- the government. tide gives a fine exposure for tory has still far to go to reach though little is yet known about therefore taken the tion has this, and during the student the size of the M. B. L., yet both this second evil, are a great in- wise course of encouraging the courses it gives rise to a series fulfill a similar function—they centive to study. of staff to pursue investigations of highly romantic maroonings. both serve as clearing houses for An interested audience of rather fundamental significance The majority of the material is active biological research, and about twenty-five attended the applic- than those of immediate collected by boat. The labora- each one draws investigators not lecture. Dr. Cobb illustrated covered by ability. The field tory owns a trawler, the S. S. merely from one institution his words with skillfully pre- these investigations is very wide "Salpa", about the size of the alone but from all over their re- pared colored slides and black- described and can only be Halcyon, also a large motor boat spective countries. A visit to board sketches. At the close of factors briefly. They include: and a sailing boat for work Woods Hole brings one in con- the address he invited the com- of dia- influencing the growth within the sound. The boats are tact with almost every aspect of ments and questions of zoolog- bionomics toms. Dr. E. J. Allen; well fitted with the usual gear, American biology, far more so ists in an open forum, in the of the oyster. Dr. and pathology including otter trawls, dredges, than Vv'ould a visit to any other course of which it was suggest- J. H. Orton; seasonal changes nets, and such strange appar- single institution. Plymouth ed that the general lack of inter- ni- in phosphates, silicates and atus as is from time to time in- may now be said to have taken est in nematology might be ac- trates of seawater which prove vented by the younger members up a similar position with re- counted for by the ignorance to be limiting factors for diatom of the staff. spect to Great Britain. among students of the proper control the growth and hence The fauna is certainly the There could be no better use of the microscope and of in- Dr. whole marine food supply. richest in England. Apart from point of contact between Ameri- vertebrate zoology in general. W. R. G. Atkins and W. H. the general Atlantic coastal can and British biologists than Harvey: quantitative plankton fauna, many Arctic forms reach that which might be provided by WOODS HOLITES! distribution, F. S. Russell. down to Devonshire by way of a free interchange of investiga- Feeding habits of planktonic the Irish and North Seas; and tors between the two labora- animals—each animal eats an- Plymouth is sufficiently far tories. Not only does a visiting THE ENTERPRISE other animal until finally the south to come within the range investigator find himself stimu- while you are at Woods last animal eats diatoms, which, of some forms properly belong- lated by seeing fresh types and Hole this Summer. being vastly in the majority ing to the Mediterranean region. new methods, but he gains by Published every Saturday. it 3 Months, 75c have as usual to put up with Compared with Woods Hole the meeting representatives from all —Dr. M. V. Lebour. Animal Plymouth fauna is very interest- over the country an intimacy THE ENTERPRISE communities on the sea floor, 0. ing, for it is in many ways com- with his biological cousins that FALMOUTH, MASS. D. Hunt. The genetics of Gam- plementary. Limulus, alas! is gives him an invaluable key marus—quite a marine Droso- not with us. (Amphioxus is the wherever he may choose to go phila—Mrs. E. W. Sexton ; herr- ancestor of the true Briton). subsequently. ing migrations, E. Ford; game- But in place of Limulus there And it is just as easy to dis- togenesis in mollusca, F. are two very large crabs (cancer embark at Plymouth and then Palmer; biochemistry of fish edulis and Maia squinado) H. A. DANIELS go on to London a day, a week, livers, H. 0. Bull; comparative which grow to nearly a foot a month, or even a year later of digestion in in- across, and besides the common WOODS HOLE physiology you can not outstay your wel- vertebrates, C. M. Yonge; cell lobster there is the Rock Lobster come. physiology, particularly amoe- (Palinurus). In the same way boid movement, C. F. A. Pantin. Ar.bacia and the sand dollar are The majority of this work is replaced by Echinus (E. escu- THE published in the "Journal of the lentus and E. miliaris) and the Marine Biological Association." Heart urchins (Echinocordium COLEMAN & BELL ICE CREAM This big range of work has and Spatangus). In passing it COMPANY made a good library covering may be said that one member of Incorporated almost every branch of biology the staff has undertaken the Manufacturing Chemists necessity. of everything and chemistry a vital noble task eating NORWOOD, OHIO DRINKS It is also important in another specifically entitled "edulis" and U. S. A. way. A visiting investigator "esculentus." So far he is doing can always find someone who is as well as can be expected, able to give him detailed infor- though he fears that the modern REFRESHMENTS mation as to suitable organisms rapid changes in zoological that are available for work in nomenclature may convert an CAPE COD any field. "edulis" into an "emeticus" in AUTO COMPANY This brings us back to labora- the very act of deglutition. tory accommodations for visit- The collecting grounds them- LINCOLN Open from 8:30 A. M. ing investigators. There is selves are very varied. Within FORD FORDSON available accommodation for a radius of a few miles are sand, Authorized Sales and Service Until 1 1 :00 P. M. some forty workers besides the gravel, mud, and rocky shores permanent staff, rooms or tables of both limestone and igneous FALMOUTH, MASS. being obtained simply by appli- rocks. !

PAGE FOUR THE COLLECTING NET motive and Mrs. Crane's brief working here for any length of Science and Music and excellent talk, with explana- The Collecting Net time fall under its influence and tions and discussion, was a very devoted to the laboratory Issued under the auspices of become From the standpoint of one work. Memories of one happy idea. The M. B. L. Club and its interested in biological Woods walls Such groups have gathered be- summer spent within its evidence that non- Hole any fore in Woods Hole, though per- last a lifetime ; and without 1926 will biologi.sts are settling here in Vol. 1. No. 6 Aug. 26, those who have had haps seldom with such definite exception increasing numbers is welcome. privilege wish to return purpose to further the study as the It will contribute to preserving Officers not only once bui sea- well as the enjoyment of music. Club again— influences which will help the each year Here were real artists holding Edwards Pres son after season—and D. J. workers. up to us intellectual ideals and Vice-Pres. one's affection for Wood's Hole C. C. Speidel the greate.st good fortune laboratory increases by By practical accomiplishment in a M. Sampson Sec.-Treas, and the people seem to no the laboratory field fundamentally related to Tinkham. CAaic. House Com leaps and bounds. It knows Florence have now acquired sufficient land cur own work. Marion Rea Chair. Social Com limit agreed on a simpli- and to have Such examples of constructive attitude which will The Marine Biological Labora- city of social imagination help us. Editorial Staff inhibit undesirable diversions. tory is implanted on firm foun- It is certainly to be hoped number of cultivated peo- Ware Cattell, Managing Editor, Helen dations with assets totaling more A that these chamber-music as- is ple have been attracted by this, H. Cattell, Anna C. Dunlap, Thomas than two million dollars. It semblies shall be continued in of and those are welcomed who de- P. Hughes, A. Ranger Tyler, Associ- quite time that the question our free hours. And what a sire to contribute to a free en- ate Editors. awarding research scholarships great thing it would be should be- joyment of the true university Contributing Editors to promising students and this lead further to the develop- was taken atmosphere of the place. Bio- Fisheries ginning investigators ment of music for the commun- A. S. Eichorn. . .Bureau of and to this logists are glad to discover, Town Topics under consideration; ity, in some way similar to the Helen Jennings going near by. students of philosophy, Sports end The Collect ing Net is great example set by the Rus- J. M, Fogg engineering, or medical special- to undertake a campaign to raise sian Choir. presidents, politi- money for a Research Scholar- ties. College H. McE. K. In Biology economists, pubhshers, jour- Research ship Fund which will be initiated cal nalists, artists, musicians: all at the beginning of the season Inadvertently the following seem to belong. Even some started in 1927. After a careful study name was omitted from the "Di- "The Collecting Net" non-professionals and financial situation we are others, rectory for 1926": in life with a definite purpose. of the can meet our owners of large places become to report facts and news convinced that we Corcii. H. Irene, res. asst. to It wants interested in the laboratory and scientific publication expenses next sum- Dr. McClung, Pennsylvania, Br. of interest, to forward in the five cents a actually v/in a high place and it wants to foster mer by charging 219. research, But esteem of the biologists by their and encourage that indefinable copy for our little bulletin. present sincere efforts to help in some "something" which for want of we shall maintain our To the Editor of the Collecting Net: ten cents; and half oi way. a better name is sometime called charge of At the wonderful centre that has from the sale of We all recognize the sympa- gradually been built up here at the "spirit of the laboratory". the proceeds the of one Woods Hole, one has the privilege of of research, in- copies will be turned over to thetic understanding The atmosphere listening to a large number of the Scholarship Fund. philanthropist who has become formality and goodwill here is proposed most brilliant lights of the many external aid was one of us. He expressed it not unique and precious. It is as Even if no institutions scattered throughout sum could only by generous benefactions much a part of the institution volunteered a sizable these United States. One cannot but before the end which have induced others to glory in the fact that our places of are the buildings and equip- be accumulated as labora- learning possess so many men of high of the the season. But the labora- support the work of the tnent on the grounds of scientific attainment, of so high an friends and we tory, but by joining in, through laboratory. It is the essence tory has many 'order of individual integrity and not that they would personal acts which should of the laboratory, and if firmlv believe least, so noble a capacity for making privilege to for- maintain the fine old spirit of material sacrifices in the cause of In- the latter has a soul, this "some- consider it a scientific work in such a the place. From time to time, itellectual Progress. thing" is it! Our little weekly ward shared with us works of But, alas, other, less agreeable re- to the forward- striking manner. he has dedicates itself are aroused. Wonder at the Pantin, art and music which he brought flections ing the objects of the Marine On another page Dr. almost universal ignoring of the first here for our mutual enjoyment Biological Laboratory. who is the resident staif mem- principles of Art to which these men Ply- and stimulus. It was a wonder- presumably dedicated their lives. To be associated with the ber in physiology at the have tne ful experience to hear the Rus- 'These men are students of science. Biological Laboratory is mouth laboratory, points out Marine the lawn, with its jTrue. There are, granted, a few of making an ar- sian Choir on an honor and a de- possibilities _ their lives to investiga- a privilege, interpretation of old Russia and Hvho devote whereby there might research. But the great finite responsibility. There is no rangement people. tion and of investi- the character of a great surely are drawing their place on earth where so many be a free interchange majority The whole community profited teachers of Youth; yet united by gators between the Marine Bio- salaries as fine people gather— vi^as have taken no thought Laboratory Association immensely by the way this they seem to the common purpose of forward- logical whatever of making themselves audi- England, and our done. ing research in the biological at Plvmouth, ble to their audience. Few of these The question Music furnishes common laugh at the most sciences—to under.standing the own laboratory. men but would seem to ground, where all of this diverse learned scientist who could not pre- living organism and its behavior of funds may at first meet and join sent the results of his labors in clear phases. It present a formidable barrier, community may in all its aspects and cogent English (or some other can provide in mutual appreciation of as- is a worthy aim, and the joy but probably we language!) All will be inclined to traveling ex- pects of the imagination and of Robin- and intense satisfaction of money to pay the agree, I fancy, with Harvey who thought which in some manner a lack of clarity in wresting from Nature its ear- penses of our investigators son's belief that to Ply- are sure to touch each special expression is at bottom only a lack fully guarded secrets can be ap- would be selected to go serve as ef- of clarity in thought. Yet, frequent- are It is hoped that funds interest, and may preciated only hy those who mouth. ly, to their students they are worse England fective stimuli to higher achieve- actually engaged in research. can be obtained in than obscure. They are unheard. Plymouth labora- ment in science. of those To us it seems that one has not to enable the There is probably not one reim- are called would be guilty of known life to its full extent un- tory to likewise completely These thoughts gentlemen who a text-book printed on struggled for months burse its representatives to our forth by Mrs. Murray Crane's publishing til he has cheap paper and printed in execrable of institution. musical of last week. Here was with an intricate problem tvne. Y'et almost all of them are effort. The audi- biology, gradually illuminating Such an arrangment would do a most sincere willing to set forth the results of appreciation of verbal dress that points' that were before in total much toward promoting bio- ence showed deep their research in way of thinking, is even less is the joy do its bit the work of Miss Nancy Wilson to my darkness. Greater logical research and Trustee of a College, Miss Hubner, who played excusable. As a than the successful culmination toward fostering international and appalled at the almost general skill I am to a directly with such authority and of the art of making of business propositions good will ; and it would cold-shouldering that con- as to achieve the highest praise. one's self heard and understood^ in business man ; greater than benefit both laboratories room. It is not possible the architect on see- innumerable ways. Tlieme and accompaniment sang the lecture sensed by cerned in the blame upon the archi- and one and true and beautiful, as is only to east all ing before him his dreams The plan is a worthy tects' shoulders. There are too many at the hands of trained plans as a permanent monument it deserves the hearty support possible teachers whom it is difficult to under- pi-ofessionals. program across the dining room table! in brick and mortar. of all who are interested in for- The stand was grouped with a historical A. Nathan Meyer. Those of us who have been warding biological research. ! ,

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found and therefore occurrences Lecture Given by Miss Jeffers THE SEA URCHIN of the kind must happen very often. The lecture of "A Mediter- Deep-sea fishes are not limited IT PRICKS WITHOUT DISCRIMINATION ranean Cruise" by Miss Mary in their, range, consequently, Jeffers, last Thursday evening, physical That Weighty Problem In September the moon is full conditions of the depths was appreciated by a large audi- at 3:19 P. M. on the twenty-first of the ocean must be the same ence. Mi.ss Jeffers lectures with of the month. This piece of in- or nearly the same all over the ease and her ready wit enlivens formation is given for the Ne- globe. The deep-sea fishes are a wide experience as a linguist reis-collectors and for others not of a peculiar order, but and archeologist in Europe. chiefly who may be concerned. modified forms of sur- Many valuable pictures all face types. Nothing was known taken personally were made into of We have been asked whether the exact depths inhabited by lantern slides and colored by Dr. those fishes until ob.servations "Calvinism" is a conservative Peebles, who has been Miss Jef- were made during doctrine. This question seems the voyage of fer's companion abroad for H. M. S. "Challenger". These to be open to debate? Can our many trips. results - readers help us? showed that deep sea Tuesday evening Aug. 24th, fishes inhabited the strata from at 8 o'clock, in the M. B. L. 200 fathoms, The most important matter as the Melam- lecture hall. Miss Jeffers lec- phaes, to 2650 that came up for consideration fathoms, as the tures on "Romola"—this is fol- Coryphaenoides at the meeting of the laboratory filicauda. lowed on the evening of the 31st Committee on Policy at its even- by the la.st lecture on Paris. Dr. Charles is ing session was the question of P. Tibus, who It is a welcome addition to director of the the lettering to be used in in- newly formed the life of Woods Hole to have School of scribing the words "Thou shalt Miscroscopy in New lectures of this unusual type. York, is not weigh" on the walls of the visiting Woods Hole. L. B. J. lobby of the new building. I . ==

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TOWN TOPICS from The Tortugas where they nil have spent the summer working. THE SEA ROBIN (Continued from Page 1) Dr. Halsey, professor of Bac- Breakfast, Dinner, Supper teriology at Tulane Medical The recent death of Madison School, is spending the summer Afternoon Tea Edwards, chaplain of Sea- with his family in the Warren mans Bethel at Vineyard Haven, cottage. Ethel, his oldest daugh- has caused much grief among MRS. CRITTENDEN ter, is a reporter for the Associ- those who knew him here. He Phone: 667-3 ated Press and left last Sunday was born in Woods Hole, and evening for New York. Miss observed his 74th birthday on Noel Halsey, his other daughter, August 13th. For half a century, WOODS HOLE LIBRARY has been selling Chrysler cars wherever New England ships BENEFIT this summer at Woods Hole. have sailed, he has been well Juniper Point Players present Eugene O'NeiTs "Bound known and greatly loved, and East The Juniper Point Players for Cardiff"; Collin Clements' of devoted he has spent 33 years will present an entertaining ''Pierrot in Paris"; Stark service to sailors. program on Tuesday evening, Ycung's "The Twilight Saint." Sea- He was at the Boston consisting of three short plays, M. B. L. Auditorium, Woods for a few Kr>le, Monday, August 30, 1926, mans Friend Society at the Laboratory Auditorium S.30 P. M. Tickets from Miss years, and then instituted a :3i.' rin >'onclay. August 30, at 8 Spalding and Dr. Ellsworth. Bethel at Tarpaulin "Seamans P. M. Cove, where he remained in charge for five years. He went A Woods Hole choral society to Vineyard Haven in 1893, and is being organized under the Park Tailorine Shop passed away at his home there direction of Mr. Gorokhoff, M. DOLINSKY & CO. WILLIAM SCHLEPA'rK, Prop. on August loth. He was the Diofessor of music at Smith Tailors Men's and Women's and Mary L. son of Capt. Ben College. The first meeting wa;: Fine Tailoring Edwards. His father was the held at the M. B. L. Club on MAIN STREET cleaning. Repairing and first buoy setter on the New at which Dr. Edwin August 24, WOOD'S HOLE, Pressing He is survived MASS. England coast. Linton was elected president. NEW WEEKS BUILDING by his wife, two daughters and FALMOUTH, MASS. a son. His daughter Mrs. Austin Where do we get our Tower is assistant chaplain of DRY GOODS His other daughter STATIONERY the Bethel. BATHING SUPPLIES is Miss Mary Edwards of Booth- bav. Me., and his son Howard THE Edwards of Oak Bluffs. MRS. SNOW'S STORE KODAK FILMS Developing and Printing Dr. and Mrs. P. W. Whiting SCI ENTI FIC Gccd Work Quick Service cf Orono. Maine have just returned to Woods Hole. Dr. Whiting , head of the Depart- MONTH LY Estate of M. H. WALSH ment of Biology at the Univer- sity of Maine, and his wife, who ROSE SPECIALIST FOR AUGUST also has her Ph. D. are carrying WOODS HOLE genetics there. out research in The Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research. Professor John Roses Shrubs M. Coulter. Prof. J. M. Bronsted, from the Perennials Evergreens Parrots At Home. Dr. Alexander Wetmore. Polytechnic Institute of Copen- Planting and Pruning Hunting Bighorn With a Camera. Dr. Vernon Kellogg. hagen, Denmark, has been lec- The Progress of Public Health In China. Dr. Reginald M. Atwater. turing on Chemistry at Colum- bia University during the last Politics and the Public Health. James A. Tobey. week, and has just arrived in Special Closing Out Sale Excursions In Experimental Psychology. Professor Raymond Dodge. Woods Hole for a short vacation. of The Birth of Modern Science. John K. Robertson.

The Friendship of Two Old-Time Naturalists. J. S. Wade. Mr. George A. Plimpton, the HARDWARE Geologic Romance of the Finger Lakes. Professor Herman L. well-known publisher is visiting Fairchi'ld. Woods Hole. He has been con- EASTMAN'S Radio Talks On Science: The Planet Mars, Stokjey; nected with Ginn & Co. since James How MAIN ST., FALMOUTH Plants Behave When Diseased, Professor B. M. Duggar. 1882, and is at the pesent time Peculiarities Sensation trustee of Amherst College. Dr. The of the of Cold. Professor D. Fraser Harris. Plimpton has the large.st collec- Tel. 19-4 Water Waving Progress Science: Electric Farming; tion of text books from the The of A Queer Kettle; Pro- fessor Lucien Gallois; Variation of the Sun's Heat. earliest date of printing, and SANSOUCI & CARRAGHER medieval manuscripts of an edu- BARBER SHOP cational character, in the world. Falmouth, Mass. THE SCIENCE PRESS Some time ago he donated a LANCASTER, PA. GARRISON, N. Y. Scientific Scalp Treatment library of first editions of nearly GRAND CENTRAL TERMINAL, N. Y. CITY Hairdressing Marcel Waving every Italian writer along with Shampooing Facials the original manuscripts to Wel- Manicuring Yearly Subscription $5 Three Months $1 Single Copies 50c lesley College. Dr. David H. Tennent, form- SUBSCRIPTION ORDER erly on the Embryology Investi- SAMUEL CAHOON gation staff of the Laboratory $5 00 year's Wholesale and Retail Please find enclosed in payment for a and at present professor of Bio- ^jIoq ^j^j.^^ month's logy at Bryn Mawr College, has Dealer in subscription to The Scientific Monthly. recently returned to Woods Hole. Fish and Lobsters Douglass M. Whitaker a gradu- NAME ate student at Stanford Univer- Woods Hole Tel. 660-661 ADDRESS sity is working with Dr. Ten- Falmouth - 329 nent. Both have just returned THE COLLECTING NET PAGE SEVEN JUNGLE LABORATORY MANY WORKERS LEAVE

people (Continued from Page 1) The following have been eating at the Mess and have WE MANUFACTURE left town since last Saturday: quibo dolphin and a line giant THE HIGHEST QUALITY Mary Ballard, W. C. D. Be- or 15 banded armadillo. The wick, Dr. W. C. Bullington, Microscopes and Accessories pictures of peripatus, giant tree Virginia Burke, Miss E. L. Bur- Microtomes snails, fresh water sting rays, ritt, L. H. Button, Jack Cattell, Projection Apparatus frogs of startling color and Sally Chostney, Mrs. J. R. tree I'hctcmicrographic Cameras Hoatzins were of special inter- Christie. L. B. Clark, Elsie Cline, L. J. Cole, Mrs. N. C. Curtis, W. Field Glasses est. Duryee, Helen Dyer, Mr. and Botanical Apparatus slight shudder went A Mrs. H. T. Folger, G. M. Franke, Photographic Lenses through the audience when Dr. e li n e E. Gabritshevsky, M a d Centrifuges Fish showed slides of the Red Geanb, Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Kaemocytometers Howler monkey and the iguana, Hance, Mabel Hedge, Mr. Kline, E. Mentz, Eleanor Mitchell, Spectrometers relating the while their place on Catalogues William H. Mitchell, Mrs. H. Refractometers the menu of the laboratory Neubauer, N. Norodin, Mark On Request Colorimeters workers. The writer, however, Dr. Potter, F. N. Ratcliife, Other Optical Products can personally attest their palat- Richter, Miss Richter, Bessie G. ability, especially when served a Roche, C. G. Rogers, Edith Showers, Adair Sohst, Evelyn la Kartabo. Sohst, Mrs. and Mr. R. C. Sohst, Bausch & Lomb Optical Co. Dr. Fish was anxious to com- Curt Stern, F. W. Stewart, Edith Office and Factory: Rochester, N. Y. pare the biological opportunities Stiffler, N. W. Stifller, A. H. Main elsewhere in British Guiana Sturtevant, Margaret Sumwald, New York: Park and 42nd Sts. Chicago: 5 No. Wabash Ave. with those at Kartabo and made G. W. Thomas, Edna Vreeland, use of a canvas covered canoe to Marion P. Watson, E. W. Grace Boston: 333 Washington St. San Francicco: 28 Geary St. go 225 miles into the interior White. ultimately reaching Kaieteur Falls on the Potaro River. Here a stream some 400 feet wide The CROCKER and 20 feet deep drops perpen- dicularly 741 feet (five times as GARAGE CO. high as Niagara) into a gorge Inccrporated which extends down stream FALMOUTH, MASS. some 50 miles between parapets 1200 feet high. TOW CAR Above these falls there are small savannah-like open spaces Tel. 72-2 in the midst of the rain forest. The smaller trees and shrubs General Repair Work bring the flowers and conse- and quently the insects of the tree- Goodyear Service tops down to the ground where 154 Station they can be studied in a way which is impossible in the deep (Our Tire Man A Graduate of jungle for there one sees few the Goodyear Repair School.) flowers on the ground. Dr. Fish related the excellence cf health conditions in that part rf the colony and one can easily imagine the enthusiasm of any FALMOUTH vv'oi'ker when it is possible, .as happened in one instance, to RESTAURANT collect 100 species of lepidoptera in four hours, many of them un- MAIN ST., FALMOUTH described. M. C. K. H. TOYOTA, Mgr.

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PAGE EIGHT THE COLLECTING NET MOTOR REGULATIONS BOOKS MISSING FROM LIBRARY The following books have been The following information is lost from the library during the The Elizabeth Theatre given for the benefit of workers summer. The librarian would FALMOUTH, MASS. from other states, planning to be grateful if they could be bring automobiles to Woods located. HIGH CLASS PHOTOPLAYS Hole for the next season (1) Michaelis, Leonor: Practical Show Starts at 7.45 — Feature Picture at 8.30 Persons keeping cars in the and Colloidal Chemistry. Physical Short Reels Repeated After the Feature Picture. Commonwealth of Massachu- 540 M 58. (2) McClendon and Medes: P'hys- A COMPLETE SHOW AFTER 8.30 setts for periods of less than ical Chemistry in Biology and Medi- Saturday Two Shows at 7.00 and 9.00 O'clock thirty days will not require li- cine. 540i\IC132. Matinees Monday, Wednesday and Saturday at 2.30 censes either for the machine or (3) Carnegie Inst. Publication No. 327. Bridges and Morgan. operator, provided that they are registered in a state granting On August 20th the coast similar privileges to Massachu- guard Base 291 went to the res- NOTICE setts cars. Persons staying over cue of a yacht which had run this period must secure both on Great Ledge. The yacht was

the Halcijon 11. , belonging to types of license. Copy could not be obtained before going Geo. L. DeBlois of Marblehead. first next Beginning January She was headed for Nantucket, to press. The schedule for which this no motor vehicle can be regis- carrying five passengers, and space was reserved will be found posted tered in Massachusetts without ran into the ledge under full submitting proof of liability se- sail. The Base pulled her off at the Mess and at the Main Bulletin Board minutes work and tow- curity with the application. after 20 ed her into the harbor where she in the Brick Building. Three types of security are rec- anchored. No damage was done. ognized as adequate, (1) the or- dinary Liability Insurance Pol- icy with at least ten thousand THE dollar limit, (2) a surety Bond in the sum of ten thousand dol- FALMOUTH COAL lors or (3) a deposit of five COMPANY thousand dollars in cash or se- Monday, August 30th curities with the Division of Falmouth — Woods Hole Highways. It is specified that Mass. the Insurance or Bonding Com- MERCHANDISE panies must be authorized to do business in Massachusetts to be acceptable. Under the amended IN OUR GIFT SHOP Act judgment mi^ be taken E.4T AT against the owner of a car so THE registered for all damages in- REDUCED curred by anyone operating the IDEAL RESTAURANT car with his "expressed or im- plied consent", as well as when IVIain Street 20% OR MORE he himself is operating. Woods Hole, Mass. KAIETEUR Ten Acre Farm Falmouth

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