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MBL founded: 1888 Founded in Woods Hole, MA, which was already the site for the government’s US Fish Commission Laboratory directed by Spencer Fullerton Baird.
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Charles Otis Whitman becomes first director: 1888 - 1908
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Frank R. Lillie, Director: 1908 - 1925
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Systematics-Ecology Program established: 1962