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Tortugas Laboratory Budget (approximate)

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The matter of setting up and maintaining the Tortugas Laboratory presented the Carnegie Institution with much the same problem as that confronting us in the proposed Galapagos Island research station. I therefore append an approximation of the budget of that laboratory, where I was fortunate enough to spend four summers, along with statements of the capital investment and grants for three different years as given in the Year Books of the Institution. 

The laboratory was kept open for about twelve weeks each summer, roughly two and a half months. The budget was for the running expenses of the summer season only, except for the charge for the mooring site in the Miami River where the laboratory boats were kept during the winter. I understand that the larger repairs and replacements and special trips and travel, such as through the West Indies, to Tahiti, Samoa, and the like, were separately appropriated for. They were not included in the regular laboratory budget. The budget items of travel, hotel, and laundry covered the expenses of the visiting investigators on their way to the laboratory and home again. Temporary held numbered from six to seven people; provisions and ice provided for 18 to 25 for the twelve weeks period.