DIRECTOR'S REPORT. 13 



Laboratory; these agreements run for a period of ten years. 

 The Eli Lilly Co. rooms will be specially equipped for bio- 

 chemistry, and the Nela Research Laboratory rooms for bio- 

 physics, especially radiation work. Thus experience of the 

 special needs in these subjects will be gained in advance of the 

 contemplated erection of a special laboratory for biochemistry 

 and biophysics. The greater part of the new space is involved 

 in these assignments, but other space is also thereby released, 

 making a net gain to the Laboratory of five research rooms. 



Additional research rooms can also be secured by the tem- 

 porary occupation of a portion of the new Supply Department 

 Laboratory, so that accommodations will be more ample for 1921. 

 The relief must, however, be very temporary, and accordingly 

 comprehensive plans for the future development of the Labora- 

 tory were studied by members of the Board of Trustees during 

 the summer. 



It was decided that any new construction should be part of 

 a plan calculated to meet the needs of the present generation of 

 biologists, and accordingly Mr. Charles A. Coolidge was re- 

 quested, and kindly consented, to prepare such plans. The 

 obvious immediate needs call for two new buildings, a laboratory 

 building specially equipped for biochemistry and biophysics, 

 and a building for library and administration purposes containing 

 also an auditorium. Future development will require an addi- 

 tional laboratory unit, and this also was included in the plans. 



The first two of these buildings should be constructed imme- 

 diately. As regards the first: not only is present research space 

 inadequate, but, as noted in the last report, the present wooden 

 buildings are not well adapted to the more rigorous needs of 

 modern experimental research. The new laboratory would be 

 fully occupied at once by workers transferred from the old 

 buildings who require the special facilities proposed, and this 

 would leave more space in the old buildings for those whose 

 work has other technical requirements. This building is the 

 one approved by the National Research Council as one of their 

 projects, as related in the report for 1919. 



A committee was appointed by the Trustees to consider the 



