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12 MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY
4. Lectures and Scientific Meetings. A complete record of this important
activity of the Laboratory for the season of
1934 will be found
below (pages 28 to 35). The regular evening lectures numbered 10,
and these were supplemented by several special lectures and exhibits of
motion pictures. Ten scientific meetings were also held at which 69
shorter papers were presented and discussed. The last of these meetings
was, as usual, an all-day session at the close of the summer, devoted
exclusively to work done at
the Laboratory during the current season.
Abstracts of many of the papers presented at this and at earlier meetings
will be found in the Biological Bulletin for October, 1934. In
addition to the regular scientific programs, a Woods Hole meeting of
the Genetics Society of America on August 22, for which the Marine
Biological Laboratory acted as host, was also largely attended by Laboratory
workers.
5. Courses of Instruction. The resignation of Dr. William R. Amberson
as Head of the Physiology Course, a position which he first
assumed in 1930, was accepted by the Executive Committee with regret,
and Dr. Laurence Irving of the University of Toronto was selected to
take his place.
In recognition of Dr. Amberson's unusual success during
his connection with the Physiology Course in stimulating the interest
of students in research, he was elected a member of the Research
Staff of the Laboratory.
6. Change in the By-laws. At the regular meeting of the Trustees
held on Tuesday, August 14, 1934, due notice having previously been
given that a change in the By-laws would be acted upon, it was unanimously
voted to strike out the former By-law III and to substitute
it a new By-law III as follows:
" Inasmuch as the time and place of the Annual Meeting of Members
is fixed by these By-laws, no notice of the Annual Meeting need
be given. Notice of any special meeting of members, however, shall
be given by the Clerk by mailing notice of the time and place and purpose
of said meeting, at least fifteen (15) days before such meeting, to
each member at his or her address as shown on the records of the
Corporation."
7. Board of Trustees. At the meeting of the Corporation held on
Tuesday, August 14, 1934, Professor E. G. Conklin, whose long and
active service on the Board of Trustees began in 1898, was elected a
Trustee Emeritus, and Professor B. H. Willier of the University of
Rochester was chosen to fill the vacancy thus created in the Class of
1938.
It is with deep regret that announcement is made of the deaths during
1934 of two members of the Board of Trustees whose connections
with the Laboratory were particularly long and intimate.
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