"Seventeen biologists and a rowboat" launch the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole - following the dictum of Louis Agassiz to "study nature, not books."
MBLWHOI Library
The MBLWHOI Library maintains one of the world's largest print and electronic collections of biomedical, oceanographic, and marine biological literature.
The main library is located in the MBL's Lillie Building, with branches on the WHOI and NMFS campuses.