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simplified drawings of the ground plans for the information of 

 our members; in a later report it is hoped that Dr. Drew will 

 include an adequate description of the new building and its 

 appliances. 



7. Changes in the Membership of the Board of Trustees. At the 

 meeting of the Corporation August 14, 1923, three new members 

 of the Board of Trustees were included in the elections to the 

 class of 1927: Professor Winterton C. Curtis of the University 

 of Missouri, Professor J. R. Schramm of Cornell University, 

 and the National Research Council, and Professor L. L. Woodruff 

 of Yale University, all previously active for years in affairs of 

 the Marine Biological Laboratory. 



The deaths of the Treasurer of the Laboratory and of the 

 Secretary of the Board of Trustees, both for many years members 

 of the Board and conspicuous for their services to the Laboratory, 

 were commemorated in the following memorials presented to the 

 Corporation and to the Board : 



Resolution on the death of D. Blakely Hoar, Treasurer of the 

 Marine Biological Laboratory, presented by Professor G, H. 

 Parker. 



D. Blakely Hoar, Treasurer of the Marine Biological Labora- 

 tory, died in Boston, March 8, 1923. Mr. Hoar first came into 

 the office of Treasurer in October, 1899, and served the Labora- 

 tory in this capacity for almost twenty-four years. He began 

 his duties during a very trying period in which the Laboratory 

 was reorganized, and under circumstances that must have been 

 for him often little short of embarrassing. But he was not a 

 man to be put down by such conditions, and from the beginning 

 to the end of his term of service, he gave to the affairs of the 

 Laboratory untiring interest and unswerving support. In the 

 days of small things he exerted every effort to conserve our 

 resources, and to make clear to many of us, \vho from our scien- 

 tific bias may have thought otherwise, the wisdom of his course. 

 He often expressed himself with earnest passion, yet always 

 with a saving sense 6f humor and a generous patience. In him 

 the Laboratory loses a devoted and a loyal servant, and many 

 of its members a valued friend. 



Resolution on the death of George Lefevre, Secretary of the 

 Board of Trustees, presented by Professor M. M. Met calf. 



