Correspondence & Documents
Discusses purchasing a house in front of the MBL at five percent interest rate.
Whitman tries to persuade Conklin to publish in the Bulletin.
Talks about how the MBL should cooperate with colleges. Whitman asks for Conklin's advice.
Discusses publication plates and university cooperation. "I think Chicago is likely to be ready to join"
Whitman states he is very happy that Conklin supports his vision that the MBL should be an independent institution.
Talks about some plates.
Talks about Ginn & Co. publisher, and says they couldn't come to an agreement, therefore Whitman didn't pay them. Also discusses the idea of making the MBL a permanent lab.
Whitman relates to Conklin a meeting he had with several others. The group was evenly divided as to whether to accept the Carnegie proposition.
Disscusses meeting Conklin at a meeting in Philadephia; discusses Billings's poor demeanor; discusses action by Carnegie people and MBL's needs
Whitman states he disagreed on Conklin's complaints about salaries that appeared in Nature, and reiterates that the MBL should be an independent venture.
"Suspend judgement on Carnegie proposal pledge to Corporation to maintain complete independence."
Discusses the relevance of the independence of the MBL.
Whitman discusses a proposal from Charles Crane to remedy the relationship with Carnegie.
Discusses the future of the MBL and says it should be independent and should not abandon the ship to the Carnegie ownership.
Whitman speaks about his opposition to surrendering the independence of the Laboratory to Carnegie.
Congratulates Conklin on the establishment/renovation of the vivarium at the University of Pennsylvania.
Discusses a misunderstanding on some letters that Conklin had sent, of which he apparently had not preserved any copies.
Whitman says he has a copy of the proceedings of each trustee meeting.
Discusses people's salaries at MBL; also some of the stress he (Whitman) has been under
Discusses the most recent trustee meeting. Whitman asks Conklin for his ideas and says he should not wait for Wilson's formal feedback.
Says he will eventually announce certain plans he has in mind.
Says he has secured two journals: Journal of Morphology and Journal of Biology.
He says he wants to be in Woods Hole again during the upcoming summer. "Wood's Hole is the only place that seems like home to me."
Discusses a conversation he had with Harper and says he feels out of the world after missing one summer at Woods Hole, now that Carnegie took over.