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the Carnegie Institution of Washington, then deHvered the main 

 address on the Needs of Research. These addresses were 

 pubHshed in full in Science} 



Extra provision was made this summer for the expected large 

 attendance, by the lease of the Dexter House, which was run 

 by the laboratory, and was made to pay expenses, including rent. 

 With this increase the mess was able to accommodate the 

 students and investigators comfortably. The Dexter House is in 

 bad repair, and no lasting arrangement with the owner seems 

 possible. We have therefore been casting about for other 

 arrangements. The "Homestead" used for the help of the mess 

 has long been overcrowded, and for some time we have regarded 

 it as unsafe. Mr. Crane therefore offered to build on the home- 

 stead site a new dwelling house with accommodations for about 

 forty people, which will be lo to 12 in excess of the number 

 employed in the Mess, and will therefore furnish some available 

 space for women of the laboratory. This work is already nearly 

 finished. Mr. Crane has also presented this autumn (1914) 

 funds for improvement of the Cayadetta and for other 

 purposes including the completion of the stone wall on the 

 Yacht Club frontage and filling in behind it. This work is far 

 advanced; when it is finished the building will be moved from 

 in front of the new laboratory to the east end of the lot. 



We shall thus begin the new year with most of our material 

 needs satisfied to an extent that will probably be adequate for 

 several years. The estimate of running expenses for 191 5 shows 

 a deficit of $20,000 above receipts, as in 1914. Mr. Crane has 

 again most generously promised his support to this extent. 

 This brings up again the need of an endowment, which I think 

 we should keep constantly before us until attained. The 

 flourishing condition of the Laboratory constitutes a strong 

 argument for its endowment; the Laboratory represents no new 

 experiment, but a demonstrated success, and the fulfilment of 

 one of the greatest needs of American biology. The cooperation 

 of forty American universities and the attendance of representa- 

 tives of thirty-seven more proves that we are supplying a want 

 that is felt by all the institutions of higher learning. The 



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