vot. 1v.] The Hopkins Seaside Laboratory. 61 
spring, erected a laboratory consisting of a plain wooden struct- 
ure of two stories, sixty by twenty-five feet. 
It is located on the coast near the railroad station just next 
to what is known as ‘‘ The Point,” or Point Aulon. On the first 
floor are two general laboratories for elementary students, a store- 
room and a library room. On the second floor is a third general 
laboratory and six private laboratories for investigators. The 
laboratories, both general and private, are furnished with aquaria, 
which are supplied with running sea-water. The sea-water is 
obtained from a source which allows it to be perfectly pure. The 
water is pumped by a gasoline engine to a tank from which the 
supply is distributed. The Laboratory is also abundantly 
furnished with excellent fresh water. The Laboratory possesses 
a very full supply of glassware and reagents. Whatever is 
needed in the way of microscopes, microtomes, embedding 
apparatus, and physiological apparatus is taken from the labora- 
tories of Leland Stanford University for the summer. Of this 
supply there is a good stock to draw from. ‘The Laboratory also 
possesses a limited amount of collecting apparatus and two boats. 
Monterey Bay being a fishing station of considerable impor- 
tance renders it possible to make use of many outside advantages 
for collecting. 
The session of last summer was under the direction of Dr. C. 
H. Gilbert, Professor of Zoology, and Dr. O. P. Jenkins, Pro- 
fessor of Physiology and Histology of Leland Stanford Junior 
University. They were assisted by Mr. F.- M. McFarland, 
Instructor in Histology, Mr. C. W. Greene,. Assistant in Physi- 
ology, and Mr. B. M. Davis, Assistant in Botany in the same 
institution. 
Seventeen students were in attendance, representing some 
half dozen States and several institutions of learning. 
The experience of this, the first season, demonstrated clearly 
enough that the choice of the location is a fortunate one in every 
way. The forms of plants and animals are wonderfully rich in 
variety, in the numbers of individuals, in interest, in novelty, and 
in accessibility. It proves a perfect paradise for the marine biolo- 
gist. Of course, a single season has only served as a beginning 
toward opening the gates to the treasures here to be gathered. 
