REPORT OF THE TRUST1 9 



The corporation and trustees desire to express to the retiring 

 director their regret that he finds it necessary to withdraw from 

 the active directorship of the laboratory, and their appreciation 

 of the inestimable value of his services. Since the establishment 

 of the laboratory at Woods Hole twenty-one years ago, he has 

 been continuously its director and he has to a very large extent 

 guided its growth and development. He has stood for the prin- 

 ciples of cooperation and independence which have made the 

 laboratory unique in its character and truly national in its reputa- 

 tion and influence. His high ideals and his generous apprecia- 

 tion of the work of others have been an inspiration to the many 

 biologists, who, during these years, have attended the laboratory. 

 These ideals are the most valuable possession of the laboratory. 



The corporation and trustees desire that the retiring director 

 may continue to serve the laboratory as honorary director and 

 trustee and that his presence at the laboratory may continue to 

 be an inspiration in the future as in the past. 



To THE CORPORATION AND TRUSTEES OF THE MARINE BIOLOGICAL 

 LABORATORY, WOODS HOLE, MASS. 



Ladies and Gentlemen: Your action of August 13, in which 

 you express a desire to have me serve the laboratory as 

 " honorary director and trustee " is in itself alone an all-sufficient 

 reward for whatever service I have rendered as director. Your 

 good will is the all-important recompense, and no title that you 

 could confer could add to the weight of your approbation. In 

 fact, titles belittle the spirit. Let me have the latter without the 

 former without title or office of any kind. Please respect this 

 wish and believe me, as ever, a sincere and devoted friend of the 

 laboratory. 



Respectfully and cordially. 



C. O. WHITMAN. 



Professor Whitman's resignation as director of the Marine 

 Biological Laboratory, after twenty-one years of service in that 

 position, impressively recalls the inestimable value of his services 

 in the establishment and development of this institution. If we 



