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as against $16,932.00 in 1915, $14,003.35 in 1914, $14,554.40 in 

 1913, $13,966.35 in 1912, $10,303.61 in 1911. The business has 

 actually doubled in the last six years. 



For several years the Director has called attention to need of 

 increased accommodation for workers at the Laboratory in two 

 directions: first the need of extra dormitory space for students, 

 and second the need of cottages for the families of investigators, 

 or of land on which such cottages could be placed. Both these 

 needs now bid fair to be satisfied for some years to come. Mr. 

 Crane has turned over to the Laboratory the Dexter House for 

 use as a dormitory, with a sufficient sum of money to repair 

 and equip it. We feel that with the other dormitory accommoda- 

 tions previously provided the students' needs will be adequately 

 cared for. At the same time this extra accommodation enables 

 us to dedicate the third floor of the Supply Department building, 

 hitherto reserved for dormitory purposes, to the rapidly growing 

 needs of this Department. 



Provision has also been made for building sites for investigators 

 by the purchase of 21 acres of woodland in the Gansett woods, 

 immediately joining the Crow Hill region of Woods Hole, in 

 which many of the Laboratory members now have homes, and 

 extending from Quissett Ave. nearly to Buzzards Bay. This 

 piece of land enjoys perpetual rights in a bathing reservation in 

 a sandy cove of Buzzards Bay immediately adjoining. For 

 convenience of location with reference to the Laboratory and 

 to the sea no more desirable location could have been found ; and 

 there is no more beautiful tract in the entire town of Falmouth. 

 Mr. Crane has furnished the money necessary to complete the 

 purchase on favorable terms made by the owners, and he has 

 also provided funds for its development, including the building 

 of roads, which it is hoped may be accepted by the town. This 

 work is now in progress, so that it is expected that parts of the 

 land will be available for building purposes in the spring. A 

 considerable number of requests for lots already have been 

 received and some preliminary assignments made. 



In view of the difficulty that has existed for so long in securing 

 building sites for our membership and the probability that such 

 difficulties are likely to increase in the future, the director 



