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Scott, George G.: The Science of Biology; from the author, 

 Smith, Gilbert M.: five copies of Phy to plankton of the Inland 

 Lakes of Wisconsin, part II, Desmidiaceas; from Miss Alice W. 

 Wilcox: House: Wild Flowers of New York (plates); from the 

 author, Wilson, Edmund B.: The Cell in Development and 

 Heredity; from the author, Wolback, S. B.: The Etiology and 

 Pathology of Typhus; and from Woodruff, L. L. : Ward, Henshaw : 

 Evolution for John Doe. 



PRISCILLA B. MONTGOMERY, 



Librarian. 



VI. THE REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR. 



To THE TRUSTEES OF THE MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY. 



Gentlemen: I beg to submit herewith a report of the thirty- 

 eighth session of the Marine Biological Laboratory for the year 

 1925. 



I. The New Building. The year 1925 was marked by the 

 dedication and occupancy of the new building, planned for since 

 1919, as related in successive Annual Reports. A "plot" plan 

 and floor plans of this building were published in the Annual 

 Report for 1923 (BIOLOGICAL BULLETIN, Vol. 47, 1924, pp. 

 29-35) together with a brief description of the uses of the rooms. 

 The photographs herewith reproduced show a view of the 

 completed building from the harbor, a closer view of the main 

 facade, a view of the rear from the "Eel Pond," and interiors of 

 a private biological and a private biochemical laboratory. The 

 building is beautiful externally, and thoroughly practical and 

 complete, as well as beautiful, in its internal arrangement and 

 appointments. Its use during the season of 1925 revealed no 

 serious flaws or defects in either its arrangement or its appoint- 

 ments. 



The style of architecture is the same as that of the Crane 

 Building, but accentuated by the use of stone for the basement 

 walls, by horizontal stone courses above the first and third stories 

 and by the use of painted copper panels between the windows 

 of the second and third stories which increases the columnar 



