Science: Appeal to the Goths

On the doors of the University of Tokyo’s Oceanographic Institute, a U.S. Navy captain found a poster, lettered in English:

“This is a marine biological station with her history of over 60 years; If you are from the Eastern Coast, some of you might know Woods Hole or Mt. Desert or Tortugas; If you are from the West Coast you may know Pacific Grove or Puget Sound Biological Station; This place is a place like one of these: Take care of this place . . . save the civil equipments for Japanese students; When you are through with your job here, notify the University and let us come back to our scientific home.

—THE LAST ONE TO GO.”