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fairs should not prove inferior to their capacity in scientific 

 matters. 



4. The Report of the Librarian shows what gratifying progress 

 has been made in our aim of building up a strong research library 

 with the aid of our new endowments and the special gifts from 

 the General Education Board acknowledged in the last annual re- 

 port. Over 3,000 bound volumes and 13,000 reprints were added 

 to those already on the shelves last year, and current serials regu- 

 larly received were increased from 500 to 628. Back sets have 

 been completed in many cases and gaps filled in. Many gifts of 

 books have been received from publishers and others. The li- 

 brary is in fact just now the most rapidly developing department 

 of the institution, a condition that should be maintained for sev- 

 eral years to come. The Library Committee is convinced that 

 more rapid expansion than that originally contemplated can 

 wisely be undertaken in 1927; the General Education Board has 

 accordingly kindly consented to advance $15,000 in 1927 for this 

 purpose instead of $10,000 as originally contemplated out of their 

 gift of $50,000 for library expansion referred to in the report for 



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The Ida H. Hyde Scholarship. This scholarship was named 



for the first time in the Announcement of the Marine Biological 

 Laboratory for 1927. A permanent endowment of $2,000 has 

 been established by Dr. Hyde in the Marine Biological Laboratory 

 to provide for fees, and contribute to other expenses, of women 

 students or investigators of the University of Kansas working at 

 the Marine Biological Laboratory; it is also provided that if 

 women are not available in any given year, men students or in- 

 vestigators of the University of Kansas become eligible, and if 

 neither women or men from the University of Kansas are available 

 in any year the income may be used to pay the fees of students or 

 investigators from any other educational institution. The older 

 members of the Marine Biological Laboratory do not need to be 

 reminded that Miss Hyde was a regular investigator at the Marine 

 Biological Laboratory in the 'nineties of last century and after 

 that frequently up to the time of the war. Miss Hyde's investiga- 

 tions were then well known. For twenty-two years Miss Hyde 

 was also Professor of Physiology at the University of Kansas. 



