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Her gift thus combines her feeling of loyalty to both institutions, 

 and will serve to perpetuate the memory of her devotion to the 

 progress of science in both places, and to stimulate a like spirit in 

 others. 



Changes in Personnel. At the meeting of the Board of Trus- 

 tees held on August 10, 1926, the resignation of the Director, Dr. 

 Frank R. Lillie. was accepted and Dr. Merkel H. Jacobs of the 

 University of Pennsylvania, Associate Director of the Marine 

 Biological Laboratory, was elected Director in his stead. Dr. 

 Lillie completed this year thirty-six successive summers at the 

 Marine Biological Laboratory and thirty-four successive years in 

 the service of the Laboratory, as Instructor and Head of the 

 Department of Embryology 1893-1903, as Assistant Director 

 1900-1907 and as Director 1908-1926. A committee of the Trus- 

 tees drafted the following letter to Dr. Lillie : 



MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY, 



WOODS HOLE, MASS., 



August 19, 1926. 

 PROFESSOR FRANK R. LILLIE, 



Woods Hole, 

 Massachusetts. 



Dear Dr. Lillie: With much reluctance, and only at your own par- 

 ticular and repeated request, the Trustees of the Marine Biological 

 Laboratory have accepted your resignation as Director. On behalf of 

 the Board we, the undersigned, appointed by the Trustees to act as 

 their representatives, hereby express our great regret that it has 

 seemed to you necessary to retire from the post which you have so 

 long filled to your own honor and that of the Laboratory. 



We shall not here attempt to recite the long record of your contribu- 

 tions to the scientific and material progress of the institution. You 

 have steadfastly upheld the high scientific ideals established during the 

 earlier years of our work. The Trustees appreciate the conspicuous 

 ability, combined with unselfishness, with which you have guided the 

 development of the Laboratory. To you, in large measure, is due the 

 steady broadening in scope and method that has been so conspicuous 

 a feature of its work in recent years. As its Director you began with 

 an institution already rich in achievement but still poverty stricken in 

 respect to material things. You have left it unsurpassed in equipment 

 and endowment, the center of activities that exert an always growing 

 influence on scientific progress throughout the world. 



