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subscriptions, or more money must be added to this section of 

 the budget. 



The librarian begs, therefore, to call for more help from the 

 members of the Corporation and from the Library Committee in 

 selecting the current serials, making a finer discrimination than she 

 can make or else in asking for more money from the Executive 

 Committee for the item of " current serials." 



Since we realize that we cannot hold all of the literature in our 

 library that is occasionally called for by our investigators, but 

 that these holdings must be distributed over many libraries, we 

 arranged this summer a meeting of librarians, who, like ourselves, 

 are organizing methods of holding the scientific literature of the 

 world available for the use of scientists. Eleven librarians at- 

 tended this meeting and the day was given to a discussion of this 

 subject. In the Fall, the librarian attended a meeting of the East- 

 ern College Librarians where the same subject was presented. 

 At this meeting, Dr. Vernon Kellogg and Prof. C. E. McClung 

 presented the subject from the viewpoint of the National Re- 

 search Council and from the Board of Biological Abstracts re- 

 spectively. 



Word was received on the date of February n, 1927, that one of 

 the resolutions passed at the meeting in the summer has been ar- 

 ranged, namely, that the Union List of Serials should be continued 

 in current holding for libraries of Canada and of the United 

 States, by the library of Congress. 



THE REPORT OF THE DIRECTORS. 1 



To THE TRUSTEES OF THE MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY. 



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

 ninth session of the Marine Biological Laboratory for the year 

 1926. 



i. Attendance. Reference is made to the lists of Students and 

 Investigators (pp. 27-36) and to the tabular view of Attendance 

 (p. 37). The number of students was held to the usual quotas 



i Dr. Lillie resigned as Director August 10, 1926, and Dr. Merkel H. 

 Jacobs was elected in his stead. The Directors' report for 1926 is therefore a 

 joint report. 



