MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY. 



when the publishers refused longer to bear the deficit. While it 

 is hardly probable that the sale of volumes of the evening lectures 

 can be made to pay the expense of publication, owing to the fact 

 that they appeal for the most part to professional biologists, it 

 should nevertheless be possible to issue them at relatively slight 

 net expense. There can be no question that they filled a decided 

 want. They formed an important element in the general prestige 

 of the laboratory and gave expression to the forms of investiga- 

 tion characteristic of the time and place better than anything 

 else. It is therefore desirable that their publication should be 

 resumed, and this is recommended. 



Library. Miss Clapp, who has served as librarian for many 

 years without compensation and with entire devotion to the 

 interests of the Laboratory, has retired; Dr. Knower, of Johns 

 Hopkins University, is recommended as her successor. While 

 there is a useful collection o.f books in the library, much remains 

 to be done, and it is to be hoped that considerable additions may 

 be made without much cost by exchange and solicitation of dona- 

 tions of proceedings of learned societies. One of the most im- 

 portant special needs of the Laboratory is a fireproof building 

 and endowment for library purposes. It would add greatly to 

 the attractiveness of Woods Hole, and would facilitate the work 

 of every investigator. 



Corporation. The membership of the corporation should re- 

 ceive the earnest attention of the trustees. Under our demo- 

 cratic organization it is the court of last resort. Its membership 

 should therefore be as representative as possible and no pains 

 should be spared to secure desirable members, and give them 

 reason for real interest in laboratory affairs. 



International Zoological Congress. The season of 1907 is 

 memorable in our annals for the visit of the Seventh International 

 Zoological Congress to Woods Hole. Some foreign members 

 of the congress came early to America to avail themselves of the 

 opportunity for work at the Marine Biological Laboratory. 

 Others made a relatively long visit. The official visit of the 

 congress was made on August 25, 1907. Fifty members came 

 down by special invitation on the preceding evening and were 

 entertained by the Forbes family 'at Naushon, by the Bureau of 



