Background image overlay: Galtsoff, p. 37, Fig. 19: Alexander Agassiz, MBL. Credit: NOAA Fisheries. From NOAA archives gallery at https://apps-nefsc.fisheries.noaa.gov/rcb/photogallery/assorted.html

Background image: Galtsoff, p. 42, Fig. 22: Credit: NOAA Fisheries. From NOAA archives gallery at https://apps-nefsc.fisheries.noaa.gov/rcb/photogallery/assorted.html

References:

Galtsoff, P.S., 1962. The story of the bureau of commercial fisheries, Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts (Vol. 145). US Department of the Interior, Bureau of Commercial Fisheries.

pp. 28-29:

“He (Baird) realized great difficulties in obtaining Congressional appropriation for the purchase of lad for the laboratory and entered into negotiations with the owners of most desirable tracts of land on the shore of Great Harbor in Woods Hole. At the same time he persuaded a number of influential and wealthy persons to give financial support to his project…The annual report…lists the following parties who contributed the money: Old Colony Railroad Company $2,500 John M. Forbes $1,000 Alexander Agassiz $500 (Etc.).”

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Goodale, G.L., 1913. ALEXANDER AGASSIZ 1835-1910. Biographical Memoirs, National Academy of Sciences, 7, p.289.