The University Marine Biological Station Millport: In the Beginning Was the Vision (1970) (2009)
Moore, P. G. (Author)
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Volume: 63
Pages: 191--202
Having recently opted for early retirement (after more than 36 years coming up through the ranks as an academic at the University Marine Biological Station Millport (UMBSM) as Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader, Professor and Acting Director) and thereby relinquished my status as the longest-serving member of permanent staff, it seemed appropriate to set down my recollections of how the UMBSM came to be (not least to furnish a human dimension for the benefit of future historians of the subject). The history of the Marine Station at Millport is a long and distinguished one1,2 and, in a series of recent papers, I have been endeavouring to flesh out that early background; that is, before the establishment of the ScottishMarine Biological Association (SMBA) in 1914. When the SMBA---primarily a research organization---finally vacated the then rather rundown Millport laboratory in 1970 and moved to a new site at Dunstaffnage Bay (Oban), it was taken over by the universities of London and Glasgow to facilitate field teaching of marine biology at tertiary level, with priority being given to the two parent universities and other Scottish universities (prioritization then cascading to other universities, higher education institutions, field studies organizations and school parties, etc., as space allowed).11 In a not unbiased view expressed at the time, Millport had changed for the better.
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