14 MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY. 



internal plans of this building in consultation with Mr. Coolidge. 

 The members of this committee are C. E. McClung (chairman), 

 G. H. A. Clowes, R. S. Lillie, A. P. Mathews and W. J. V. 

 Osterhout. Plans have been drawn up after much study, making 

 the building a wing of the present brick research laboratory 

 extending to the west. It will include about 36 research labora- 

 tories and rooms, five dark rooms and laboratories, refrigeration 

 and constant temperature rooms, and space for storage. Some 

 of the research laboratories and rooms will have a strictly 

 biological equipment, others a biochemical equipment, others 

 again biophysical equipment; and it is proposed to interrelate 

 the various types for the most effective cooperation. It is 

 expected that the facilities will be adequate for the most exacting 

 kinds of physical and chemical work adapted to biological 

 analysis. 



The second building will extend to the north of the proposed 

 new laboratory and will be connected with it by a corridor. It 

 will be primarily a library building, calculated to be sufficient 

 for the library development of many years to come, and capable 

 of expansion if needed. Administration offices, committee rooms 

 and a demonstration hall will occupy the first floor; and an 

 auditorium will be built out to the east (rear) with access from 

 the demonstration hall. The facilities of this building are greatly 

 needed at the present time. The present administration offices 

 are too small, inconvenient for those who use them, and a source 

 of distraction in the research building in which they are located. 

 The present library rooms are already well filled, and do not 

 provide space for much growth. The present lecture hall is so 

 inadequate that the evening lectures are usually uncomfortably 

 crowded, and attendance at them is discouraged. The committee 

 in charge of this building is G. A. Drew (chairman), R. P. 

 Bigelow, M. J. Greenman, George Lefevre and G. H. Parker. 



The third proposed unit will be a laboratory building forming 

 a wing of the present brick laboratory, extending to the east and 

 balancing the proposed west wing. It is not anticipated that 

 it will be needed for a few years yet. 



The funds for these buildings and for their maintenance remain 

 to be secured. The chairman of the Division of Biology and 



