12 MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY. 



This accident resulted in the interruption of construction of 

 the laboratory of the Supply Department, referred to in my 

 previous report, which was under way at the time, and in diver- 

 sion of the funds set apart for this purpose. In this emergency 

 Mr. Crane again came to our assistance and furnished the funds 

 needed for the completion of the Supply Department laboratory, 

 the building of which was resumed in the late summer, and is now 

 in process of completion. 



The number of colleges, universities and other institutions 

 that cooperate with the Laboratory by subscribing for research 

 rooms and for investigators' or students' tables continues to grow. 

 In 1915 there were 37; 1916,40; 1917,38: 1918,33; 1919,48; 

 1920, 52. (See appended list.) 



The attendance at the Laboratory was again so large as to 

 tax the capacity of the buildings to the uttermost. The tabular 

 view of attendance (p. 26) shows a total attendance of 256 

 of whom 1 20 were students in courses. It was felt that the 

 student laboratories had been unduly crowded last year, espe- 

 cially in embryology and physiology, and a number of student 

 applications were therefore refused, and this explains the slightly 

 smaller student attendance in 1920 compared with 1919. The 

 number of investigators was 136 in 1920, 134 in 1919. 



It was felt to be necessary to increase research space for another 

 year, and it was therefore decided to complete the unfinished 

 half of the third floor of the brick building hitherto used for 

 storage. Aid for this work came from the Eli Lilly Co., of 

 Indianapolis, through Dr. G. H. A. Clowes of their research 

 laboratory, who had been carrying on biochemical investigations 

 at the Laboratory for several years. Later the Nela Research 

 Laboratory of the National Lamp Works of the General Electric 

 Co. entered into a similar arrangement through Dr. R. S. Lillie, 

 who was appointed biologist in their organization. By the terms 

 of agreements entered into with these companies they will 

 contribute funds to complete for their own use definitely assigned 

 sections of the new research space, and pay the usual annual fees 

 for their workers at the Laboratory, which on its part agrees to 

 furnish the usual assistance rendered to research workers at the 



