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Duties and dealings with the Director
Highlights that Conklin had not been responding. Whitman asks suggestions about who should be teaching particular courses.
Talks about how the MBL should cooperate with colleges. Whitman asks for Conklin's advice.
Report to the Trustees of the Carnegie Institution
Discusses a subscription, a publication, and the upcoming summer.
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.
Book review of Eugenio Rignano's book The Transmissibility of Acquired Characteristics, published in 1906
The estimates of expenses for 1902 by the MBL
Whitman states he is very happy that Conklin supports his vision that the MBL should be an independent institution.
Reminder for a lecture; brief discussion of personal life.
Whitman speaks about his opposition to surrendering the independence of the Laboratory to Carnegie.
Concerned with the board and the Carnegie proposal