IV. REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES 



In making their last annual report the trustees had to announce, 

 with deep regret, the retirement of Professor Whitman from the 

 directorship of the laboratory. As was stated in that report. Pro- 

 fessor Whitman was succeeded, in August, 1909, by Professor 

 Frank R. Lillie, whose annual report is submitted herewith. At 

 the same time Professor Oilman A. Drew was appointed to 

 succeed Professor Lillie as Assistant Director. The trustees 

 desire to express their satisfaction that the high ideals of work 

 and the spirit of cooperative endeavor, which the laboratory has 

 so long striven to uphold, have been fully maintained, and that 

 the institution has every reason to look hopefully to the future. 



The trustees announce with much pleasure that the plans look- 

 ing towards the construction of a new and permanent laboratory 

 building have in the past year made substantial progress. At the 

 Baltimore meeting, in December, 1908, was announced a gift from 

 the President of the Board of Trustees, Mr. Charles R. Crane, 

 for the purchase of additional land at Woods Hole with a view 

 to the future erection of such a laboratory building. With the 

 approval of the donor, the fund thus acquired was used for the 

 purchase of the tract known as the " Kidder lot," lying between 

 the stone building and the street on which the original laboratory 

 building faces. At the August meeting in 1909 Mr. Coolidge 

 offered to prepare a tentative plan for a permanent fire-proof 

 building, to be erected on this site, and a committee of the trustees 

 was appointed to secure suggestions and details incident to the 

 preparation of this plan, and to cooperate with the Corporation 

 committee on building. At the Boston meeting, in December, 

 1909, a new committee was appointed to carry on this work, and 

 it is hoped that during the present year the plans may take 

 definite shape. 



The time has come when the laboratory should be provided 

 with a building or buildings commensurate with the extent and 



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