Henry Van Peters Wilson, professor of zoology in the University, got back Wednesday from the Dry Tortugas, where he had spent a month working in the marine-life laboratories of the Carnegie Institute. Loggerhead Key, the island where he carried on his investigations, is eight hours by steamer from Key West, and mail comes only once every two weeks. Dr. Wilson, when he arrived in Chapel Hill, had not heard a word of the plan of his son-in-law, Thorndike Saville, to spend a year in South America in the sanitary engineering service of the governments of Brazil and Venezuela.
The Carnegie laboratories, on Loggerhead Key, are one-story frame buildings which, when one first sees them, would seem to be unbearably hot places in which to work. But each one of them is so constructed, with ventilators in the steep-sloping roof, and with shutters hung like awnings over the windows in the section devoted to living quarters, that the scientists live in comfort.
One of the keys of the Tortugas, not far from Loggerhead, is a great tropical bird preserve. Dr. Wilson’s boat steamed by close to it but did not stop. The key has only one inhabitant, a man who lives there throughout the year as a companion and caretaker of the millions of birds.
From the front page of The Chapel Hill Weekly, Friday, July 31, 1925
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