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The Wistar Institute gave a set of the "Biological Lectures," 

 Mrs. Gardiner donating Volume I. to complete our set. Dr. 

 Ward gave a subscription to the Journal of Parasitology, and Dr. 

 Bumpus to the current volume of the American Naturalist and 

 the Unpopular Review. Dr. Gustav Retzius has promised to 

 send a complete set of his works as soon as transportation is 

 safer. Three hundred and twelve reprints have been presented 

 to the library this year by various authors. 



Through the cooperation of Dr. George Wagner, a large number 

 of duplicates from the library of the Wisconsin Academy of Sci- 

 ences are being transferred to this library; 466 volumes have 

 been received and the number will probably reach 1,000. 



The Prince of Monaco has sent us about 75 photographs of the 

 buildings and equipment of the Institut Oceanographique, 

 together with pamphlets telling about the foundation and 

 progress of the institute. A number of other stations have sent 

 various literature and photographs, and it is hoped to secure 

 material of this kind from all biological stations in the world. 



We wish to acknowledge the cooperation of Drs. Moore and 

 Duggar in securing the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, 

 and of Dr. Ivey Lewis in arranging and preparing for the binder 

 a most confusing set of plates. 



We are really in need of a number of journals that we do not 

 have, and we should complete as soon as possible certain sets 

 that have long been defective. The library needs an increased 

 appropriation for handbooks, monographs, and general works 

 like the Encyclopedia Britannica, the Century Dictionary, etc. 



Above all, we must point out the great value of reprints and 

 books sent here by individuals, and the importance of personal 

 efforts in behalf of the library on the part of the biologists who 

 use it. Such interest has already done much to build it up. 



VI. THE DIRECTOR'S REPORT 



To THE TRUSTEES OF THE MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY: 



Gentlemen: The season of 1915, the twenty-eighth session of 

 the Marine Biological Laboratory, was marked by a farther 



