THE REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR. 39 



RESOLUTION ON THE DEATH OF MR. L. L. NUNN. 



Dr. Lillie offered the following resolution (read at the Corpo- 

 ration meeting) which was ordered spretid on the minutes. 



Mr. L. L. Nunn, Trustee of the Marine Biological Laboratory from 

 1897 to 1923 and Life Member of the Corporation died at his home 

 in California, April 2, 1925. A mining engineer by profession, Mr. 

 Nunn attained great success in the development of mines, power 

 lines and banks in the State of Colorado. He was a man of deep 

 human sympathies which found their outlet in his unmarried state in 

 a school for boys, administered on very liberal lines, which he estab- 

 lished at Deep Springs in California. In connection with the school 

 scholarships were provided, and assigned on the election of the boys 

 to the Telluride Association, which furnished a complete college and 

 professional education with generous stipend for maintenance. Mr. 

 Nunn also maintained a chapter house at Cornell University named 

 Telluride House after his principal scene of operations in Colorado, 

 for the use of members of the Telluride Association. Many young 

 men owe their prospects in life to these benevolences of Mr. Nunn. 



He was a brother-in-law of Professor Whitman, first Director of this 

 Laboratory, and showed constant sympathy with Professor Whitman's 

 ideals and aims. He evinced this interest in a very striking way at 

 the time of reorganization of the administration of the Laboratory 

 in 1897, at which time he was elected to the Board of Trustees. He 

 was present on several critical occasions in the history of the Labora- 

 tory and always showed readiness to live up to the responsibilities of 

 his Trusteeship. His largest gift to the Laboratory was a sum of 

 about $5,600.00 in 1902 for the purchase of land important in con- 

 nection with negotiations with the Carnegie Institution going on at 

 that time. 



Although prevented by distance and illness from attending the 

 meetings of the Trustees, Mr. Nunn maintained his interest in its 

 progress. On December 31, 1918 he wrote the Director: 



My dear Dr. Lillie: I am just in receipt of your communication 

 under date of December i6th, stating that you will not call a mid- 

 winter meeting of the trustees of the laboratory. I think the decision 

 a most wise one and will add one suggestion, viz: that the members of 

 the Board send the laboratory the amount it would cost them to 

 attend the meeting. Acung in accordance with the suggestion, I 

 enclose my check for $200. 



