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known as widely as possible, and the invitation for united action was 

 extended to institutions and investigators throughout the country. 

 The result is that during the last session the following eighteen 

 institutions subscribed for rooms and tables : 



Bowdoin College, Missouri Botanical Garden, 



Brown University, Alt. Holyoke College, 



Bryn Mawr College, Northwestern University, 



Chicago University, Princeton College, 



Cincinnati University, Rochester University, 



Columbia College, Smith College, 



Hamilton College, Vassar College, 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Wellesley College, 



Miami University, Williams College. 



To this list may be added the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science, as its subscription for next year has been 

 announced. 



During the same session forty-one investigators wore at work at 

 the laboratory, thirty-three of whom occupied private rooms, while 

 the rest had tables in the general laboratories for beginners in 

 investigation. The whole number of students and investigators 

 was one hundred and eleven, representing seventy-two colleges, 

 universities and schools, and no less than seventeen states. 



To those who by word and example have encouraged cooperation, 

 this record will certainly be gratifying ; and perhaps it will be 

 accepted by all as an assurance that good-will and united effort have 

 not been fruitless. For six years the Marine Biological Laboratory 

 has stood for the first and the only cooperative organization in the 

 interest of Marine Biology in America. Gradually it has come to 

 ba understood that the creation of such an organization was a step 

 in the right direction. An important need was felt and there was 

 but one way to meet it. That way was cooperative action. It was 

 clearly seen that the Government could not be expected to undertake 

 the work. An independent foundation was needed and one removed 

 from all danger of sectional domination. The effort to reach such 

 a foundation through a cooperative organization was no menace to 

 any existing laboratory. Time has shown that the laboratory was 

 not an unneeded creation. It is no longer necessary to search " the 

 by-ways and hedges " for investigators, but our buildings have to 

 be extended every year or two in order to provide room for them. 

 Each summer now sees a congress of biologists assembled at the 



