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work and workers; an investigator with a peculiar gift for the 

 appreciation of form and with a strong artistic sense; a whimsical 

 counsellor, blending wise sayings with his common talk. . . . 

 This Board owes much to him, and on this occasion desires to 

 record its sorrow for his too early death. and its appreciation of 

 his qualities." 



The vacancy in the Board of Trustees caused by the death of 

 Professor Mall has been filled by the election of W. J. V. Oster- 

 haut, Professor of Botany in Harvard University. 



We record with sorrow the death from pheumonia on January 

 29, 1919, of Professor William E. Kellicott, head of the Depart- 

 ment of Biology of the College of the City of New York and of the 

 Department of Embiyology of the Marine Biological Laboratory. 

 During his long connection with our Laboratory, as investigator 

 in 1903, instructor in embryology 1908-1914, and head of this 

 department since 1915, Professor Kellicott won many friends 

 and rendered most valuable service. His loss will be deeply felt 

 by his friends and by the Laboratory. 



W T ar conditions prevented any considerable development of 

 the Gansett property in 1918. The plans stated in the last 

 report were however carried through. The Town of Falmouth 

 accepted the main road (Whitman Road) and part of Gansett 

 Road, which are now town roads, and purchased the water 

 system installed by the Laboratory on these roads at cost. 

 Two residences have been erected. The Laboratory has paid 

 off $1,781.60 on the mortgage, and holds to the credit of the 

 Gansett account $2,522.66 in cash, and a mortgage of $1000.00 

 on two of the lots with residence. 



The Laboratory has come through a period of serious uncer- 

 tainty without harm. Now that this period of suspense is over, 

 we are confronted with an opportunity for usefulness greater 

 by all that has been lost by Europe in the matter of scientific 

 usefulness, and by the spirit of heightened scientific activity 

 that has been aroused in America during the stirring times of 

 war. It is perhaps not so much an opportunity as a duty to see 

 that American institutions of learning compensate the world 

 to some extent for what has been lost. In our field of work this 

 duty and this opportunity are ours. 



