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I HAVE noted with interest a recent discussion in NATURE of August 25 and September 15 and 29 in which the biological laboratories at Woods Hole have received incidental mention. I pray that you may give me this opportunity to correct some very prevalent misconceptions regarding the status of the Government station there. In NATURE of September 15 Prof. MacBride has voiced some of these misconceptions very clearly. “It is true”, he writes, “that there are two stations in Woods Hole, one supported by the Federal Government and devoted entirely to economic work, and the other supported entirely by zoologists; but the station which has attained world-wide fame, owing to the quantity and quality of the research which has issued from it, is the second and purely scientific one” (pp. 330, 331).
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SUMNER, F. The Biological Laboratories at Woods Hole. Nature 84, 527–528 (1910). https://doi.org/10.1038/084527d0
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