DIRECTORS REPORT. 42! 



With all of the enlargements and additions of the past few 

 years the Laboratory is still badly crowded during the height of 

 the season. This applies to a certain extent to the actual accom- 

 modations for workers in the laboratory buildings, but more 

 particularly to the housing accommodations in the village. We 

 are planning to meet the former condition by restricting numbers 

 in the larger classes; applications for admission will be received 

 up to May, and appointments then made in accordance with the 

 number of working places; if places are still available after such 

 assignments later applicants can be admitted. It is probable 

 that by means of various adjustments we can continue to care 

 for all qualified investigators. 



The housing accommodations in the village, however, raise a 

 more serious question. They are entirely inadequate, and there 

 is a consequent tendency for the prices of rooms to advance, 

 which results in discouraging attendance. Investigators who 

 wish to carry on regular work at the Laboratory are unable to 

 rent houses at reasonable rates for the accommodation of their 

 families. Conditions have become increasingly discouraging in 

 these respects for the past several years. Moreover, land is 

 almost unavailable for those families who wish to solve the living 

 problem by building. It is undoubted th?* these conditions will 

 exercise an inhibiting influence on the work of the Laboratory 

 in the future, and one of the most important problems before 

 us is to devise some means of counteracting them. 



As an organization we have laid the principle of cooperation 

 at our foundation, and we have attempted to build it into every 

 one of our activities. Our Board of Trustees is representative of 

 the institutions of learning of the country; our corporation re- 

 presents the workers in biology on the broadest lines we can secure ; 

 our staff of instructors is widely drawn from different institutions ; 

 our students and investigators come from all parts of the ac- 

 cessible territory, and some from abroad ; we ask only that they 

 have a fit preparation and exhibit the spirit of scholarship. We 

 are not tied down to any one institution or small section of the 

 country. In past years we have considered these principles 

 worth struggling for, and we have more than once sacrificed 

 security to freedom of action. Our recent years have been free 



