Picnic Table Dissection

[Deric Bownds]

I was the "official" photographer of the 1965 Cold Spring Harbor Symposium on Sensory Transduction. My favorite picture, shows Seymour Benzer at a picnic table watching and listening as Keffler Harline dissects a Limulus and explains the visual system to him. This happened after Seymour had walked up from the beach holding a horseshoe crab that he had just picked up from the water by its tail, plopped it on the picnic table, and said "Show me!"