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Professor Whitman, and a medallion of Maupas by Dr. Lillie; 

 a panorama of the Scripps Institute for Biological Research was 

 given by Dr. Ritter, and colored by Miss L. M. Wallace; a 

 history and photographs of the Indiana University Biological 

 Station has been prepared by Dr. Fernandas Payne and presented 

 to the laboratory as part of our biological station exhibit an 

 excellent idea. Miss Dunn has given a map of Woods Hole in 

 1887, just before the establishment of the laboratory. 



The Journal Fund and individual financial support, promised 

 from year to year as explained in the report for last year, will 

 be continued. Owing to exceptional conditions we shall not 

 now make any further statement of subscriptions, beyond an 

 acknowledgment to Drs. Just and Alfred G. Mayer for their 

 contributions of $10 each. The payment of other amounts 

 promised will enable us to continue the New Journal list. Miss 

 Mary E. Collett gave $10 for the purchase of books on the 

 biography of scientific men. 



Two useful undertakings have been started this year: First, a 

 duplication of text-books and monographs which are used in the 

 classes. The extra set will be of great value to investigators. 

 We shall be glad for assistance here. Second, we have extended 

 the loan department, borrowing from and loaning to other 

 libraries, even in the winter, and permitting students here to 

 take out books not demanded by investigators volumes on the 

 theoretical aspects of the subject, evolution, biography, heredity, 

 etc., have been in demand by a certain few of the students. 



As this has been a rather dull year in library development, in 

 as far as external efforts are concerned, it has been possible to 

 do more work in cataloging. Miss Scott has added 5,000 new 

 cards to the author list started in revised form in 1913 ; and 15,000 

 subject cards have been made to start a subject-catalogue to be 

 made as complete as possible. It may take 50,000 cards to 

 make this index representative, but the effort seems well worth- 

 while, especially because of the lapses in foreign bibliographies. 

 Several investigators have gone over the subject scheme and 

 have made valuable suggestions; we are anxious for all the 

 assistance obtainable in this enterprise. 



