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Related pagesJAZZ at the LABS Jazz at the Labs supports science in the classroom (2006) Not your typical science classroom (jazz preview 2005) Jazz at the Labs supports science in the classroom (2004) OPEN HOUSE Open House 2007
Open House 2005 Open House 2003 Global impacts of "Bug Station's" century of research 100 Years of Exploration and Discovery - University of Washington Friday Harbor Labs Centennial Exhibit Centennial celebration included dedication of the Centennial Helen Riaboff Whiteley Center NECROPSY STORY: | |
The Bug Station hits the century mark
posted 05/17/04
The exhibit was put together by Albert Shepherd and Peter Chan. The history of University of Washington Friday Harbor Labs is posted online. According to the Web site. "In 1894 the total faculty of the University of Washington was seven. Ten years later it had ballooned to a size where the need was felt for a seashore site where biology could better be taught, and Trevor Kincaid was provided $250 to find an appropriate place for this effort. He and H. R. Foster set forth in a small boat, inspected several sites, and in the summer of 1903 decided on Friday Harbor to establish this station. Professor Kincaid returned an unspent balance of $125 to the University. | |
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"In 1904 the first classes of the then Puget Sound Biological Station were held in temporary housing in the abandoned fish cannery on the docks in Friday Harbor. Director, Professor of Zoology, Trevor Kincaid continued his leadership of the facility until 1914. "Students, researchers, instructors from 55 countries have done their work and studies at Friday Harbor Labs in the past 10 years alone. "In 1920 expenses for summer classes from June 21 through July 30 were no more than $60! The chief expense items were: "fees - $13; tent (bedding not supplied), two person tent, each $4.50; board, $30 to $36; books, not over $3; laboratories breakages and incidentals, average $3." On August 23, 1921, President Warren G. Harding signs H.R. 1475 "for the use of the University of Washington, some four hundred and eighty four acres of land on the east side of San Juan Island. The land is to be used for the University of Washington for "a biological station and general research purposes." "1923: The State of Washington legislates the San Juan archipelago as a marine biological preserve and places it, for conservation purposes, under jurisdiction of the Director of Friday Harbor Laboratories. Construction of the first buildings was begun; the dining hall and the first of seven laboratories. Instruction began at the new site." |
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More information about Friday Harbor Labs is available on its WEB SITE
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