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sible to provide for nearly all applicants for research facilities. 

 There is no doubt that if the present limitations in the Labora- 

 tory were removed, that numbers would mount much higher. 

 For an institution devoted primarily to research, as ours is, this 

 cannot be regarded as an end in itself. But there is no doubt 

 that the present accommodations are inadequate to fulfill the 

 present strictly justifiable needs of American Biology. This 

 becomes more obvious year by year. If we are to continue to 

 justify the status of the Marine Biological Laboratory as the 

 national center of biological research we must accommodate 

 ourselves to the idea of a future considerable increase in attend- 

 ance. The investigator who desires quiet for his research must 

 use the same rules of protection in the Marine Biological Labora- 

 tory that he does in the still larger university communities from 

 which he generally comes. 



The number of subscribing and cooperating institutions in- 

 creased from 52 in 1921 to 6 1 listed on page 30; there were in 

 addition three scholarship arrangements providing for five 

 students. Of the total amount of $9,687.50 received from these 

 institutions, $3,912.50 went for students' tables and $5,775.00 

 for research accommodations. In 1921 the receipts from sub- 

 scribing and cooperating institutions amounted to $8,800.00. 

 As 58 per cent, of the students paid their own fees in 1922 the 

 fear that has been expressed lest subscribing and cooperating 

 institutions should monopolize all the students' places does not 

 appear to be justified. This is borne out in another way by 

 comparing the total of institutions represented, 104, with the 

 number of cooperating and subscribing institutions, 61. The 

 growth in the number of these institutions is an encouraging 

 sign of continued interest which represents the broad basis of 

 support of the Laboratory. 



The Report of the Treasurer (see p. 5). The earned income 

 of the Laboratory increased from $98,292.38 in 1921 to $108,686.- 

 37 in 1922; and the current expenses increased from $109,970.40 

 in 1921 to $113,466.83. The excess of current expenses over 

 earned income was $11,678.02 in 1921 and only $4,780.46 in 

 1922. If it were not for the constant need for additions out- 



