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of 105 acres provides amply for many years to come. The village 

 also offers accommodations for a considerable number in the form 

 of houses or rooms for rent. 



To Mr. Charles A. Coolidge the Laboratory is indebted for 

 reduction of the usual commission of his firm amounting in value 

 to a gift of over $2,000, thus repeating his generosity in the case 

 of the new laboratory. To him as former trustee, as architect and 

 as benefactor of the Marine Biological Laboratory, we owe a deep 

 debt of gratitude. 



The following letter to the General Education Board from a 

 Committee of the Board of Trustees has expressed to them our 

 appreciation of their gifts for the upbuilding of the Marine Bio- 

 logical Laboratory. 



August 16, 1926. 

 PRESIDENT WICKLIFFE ROSE, 



General Education Board, 

 61 Broadway, 

 New York City. 



Dear Dr. Rose: On behalf of the Marine Biological Laboratory and 

 in accordance with the express instructions of its Board of Trustees 

 given at their Annual Meeting on August loth, 1926, we wish to 

 express our appreciation and thanks for the recent generous gifts made 

 by the General Education Board for the Library and dormitories at 

 Woods Hole. 



In an Institution like the Marine Biological Laboratory the Library 

 is a central point of organization, and whatever is done to increase its 

 usefulness is a benefit to every student and investigator. The Library 

 has heretofore lacked many books and serials essential to the investi- 

 gator, and this has become increasingly felt as the scope of biological 

 research has widened into the neighboring fields of physics and chem- 

 istry. With the new resources provided by the gift of the General 

 Education Board, the Library bids fair to become one of the most 

 complete collections of its kind in the world. It will not only supply 

 the needs of those working at Woods Hole, but will also supplement 

 the resources of other institutions. Moreover, it now comes into 

 better position to cope with what might be called the alarming rate 

 of growth of biological literature. 



The situation as to living conditions has always been a difficult one 

 at Woods Hole; with the recent extensions of the Laboratory it has 



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