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Francisco Bay Marine Piling Survey Reports, from the Committee; 

 from the publisher, Macmillan: Smith, Gilbert M.: A Textbook 

 of General Botany; from Newman, Horatio Hackett: Outlines of 

 General Zoology, and Evolution; from the Cape Cod Chamber of 

 Commerce: Special Report on Population and Resources of Cape 

 Cod; from H. S. Jennings: Life and Death, Heredity and Evolution 

 in Unicellular Organisms; from Dr. Pond: Fischer, Max: Uber 

 den Abbau von Chlorophyll und Blutf orb staff ; from Lusk, Graham: 

 Science of Nutrition; from Fischer, M.: Oedema; from Lillie, 

 R. S.: Protoplasmic Action and Nervous Action; from Mrs. 

 Jacques Loeb : Regeneration from a Physico-chemical Viewpoint; 

 from Price, Weston A.: Dental Pathology; through Professor 

 Tower from the American Museum of Natural History, Dean, 

 Bashford: A Bibliography of Fishes; from Loeb, Leo: Edema; 

 from Winge, Herluf: Pattedyr-Slaegter; from Schroder, Paul: 

 Introduction to the Histology and Histo pathology of the Nervous 

 System; from the National Research Council: Atwood and 

 Johnson: Marine Piling Investigations; from Hyman, L. H.: 

 Laboratory Manual of Elementary Zoology; from Wheeler, Wm. 

 M.: Social Life among the Insects; Professor Wheeler sent to us 

 several boxes of reprints and odd volumes and numbers of journals 

 also, which we were glad to get. Mrs. Montgomery presented 

 some twelve books to the Library. 



VI. THE DIRECTOR'S REPORT. 



To THE TRUSTEES OF THE MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY. 



Gentlemen: I beg to submit herewith a report of the thirty- 

 seventh session of the Marine Biological Laboratory for the year 

 1924. 



I. Attendance. As stated in the annual report for 1923 it was 

 decided to set definite numerical limits to each of the courses of 

 instruction and this was accordingly done and acted on in 1924. 

 The result was the admission of only 134 students selected from 

 almost twice the number of applicants. These students were 

 distributed among the classes as shown in the tabular view of 

 attendance (p. 37), each class being registered up to its full 

 authorized number. The selection from among the applicants is 



