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would lead to many other points of helpful 

 contact between trustees and faculty and 

 would discover, I think, unsuspected ave- 

 nues of mutual help. And by these or 

 some like methods trustees and faculties 

 must be brought more closely together un- 

 less we wish to see the growing alienation 

 of the administrative and teaching statfs 

 develop into a real and fatal breach. Sepa- 

 ration involves mutual misunderstanding 

 and that, even among educated men, leads, 

 as in industrial enterprises, to arrogance 

 on the part of the employer, to suspicion 

 and dislike on the side of the employed. 

 If cooperation seems imperative — as I think 

 it does — to the solution of the problems of 

 industrialism, how much more necessary is 

 it if we are to solve the educational riddle. 

 Cooperation would teach the trustees the 

 antipodal difference between the problems 

 of a university and those of a business cor- 

 poration, and, at the same time, would 

 show the faculty the importance of business 

 methods and thorough organization. Coop- 

 eration would get things done without com- 

 pelling our universities to take refuge in 

 an autocracy which, harmful in itself, is 

 breeding a race of youth who scorn the 

 slow methods of democracy. It would de- 

 velop trustees who actually, instead of 

 fictitiously, comprehend and apprehend 

 their trust; it would unite faculties which, 

 under the strain of departmental complex- 

 ity, are fast disintegrating ; it would double 

 the educational efficiency of our colleges ; 

 and, most important of all, it would make 

 our universities, as they ought to be, su- 

 preme preservers, instead of conspicuous 

 destroyers, of that genuine spirit of dem- 

 ocracy which, more than schools, more than 

 churches, more than any other human 

 agency, has uplifted mankind and builded 

 civilization. 



James P. Munroe. 



THE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY OF THE 



BUREAU OF FISHERIES AT WOODS 



HOLE, MASS.: REPORT OF WORK 



FOR THE SUMMER OF 1905. 



I. STAFF EQUIPMENT, ETC. 



The laboratory was in service for pur- 

 poses of investigation during a period of 

 somewhat over three months, commencing 

 June 15. In addition to the crews of the 

 vessels and the permanent force of the sta- 

 tion, forty-three persons were directly or 

 indirectly engaged in the furtherance of 

 scientific research. Of this number, thirty 

 are to be classed as investigators, their in- 

 dividual work being detailed below. Of 

 these thirty, fifteen received a salary from 

 the bureau, the remaining fifteen being un- 

 paid. The staff of the laboratory con- 

 sisted of a director, together with twenty- 

 two others officially listed as 'temporary 

 assistants'; and a librarian, clerk and 

 janitor detailed from the office force at 

 Washington. Of those classed as 'tem- 

 porary assistants' six were occupied pri- 

 marily in connection with the biological 

 survey; five others in individual investi- 

 gations conducted on behalf of the bureau ; 

 the remainder being engaged in miscel- 

 laneous work in laboratory, residence or 

 field. Those who devoted the whole or 

 part of their time to biological work re- 

 quiring previous training have been in- 

 cluded among the investigators. 



The steam vessels Fish Hawk, Phalarope 

 and Blue Wing were, as usual, in service 

 during a large part of the season, and 

 the much valued collection of biological 

 works belonging to Brown University was 

 again placed at the disposal of the labo- 

 ratory. 



Material for research was furnished by 

 the dredging operations of the Fish Hawk 

 and Phalarope, by the laboratory fish trap 

 in Buzzards Bay, and by the large group 

 of traps at Menemsha Bight, Marthas Vine- 

 yard, where a camp was established for 



