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PROLOGUE 



HOB. many years groups of Pomona College students in 

 Biology, had made annual visits with Dr. Cook, head of the 

 Department of Biology, to the neighboring coast, usually to 

 Deadman's Island at San Pedro. The single day spent there 

 each year, among the rich displays of life accessible at low tide, had 

 kept alive the intention of the Department, growing stronger year 

 by year, to spend portions of each summer on the coast, with a 

 selected group of interested Pomona students. After many attempts* 

 to organize such a project, early in 1911, Dr. Cook, Professor Baker, 

 and Mr. Charles W. Metz, at a final conference, decided to go, regard- 

 less of obstacles, for one season's trial, and to take with them a group 

 of students interested in the work solely for the work's sake, and to 

 share with them alike in all expenses of whatever nature. The selec- 

 tion of a location was left to Professor Baker and Mr. Metz, and 

 these two, during the Spring of 1911, worked over, largely on foot, 

 most of the coast from Bedondo to Laguna. The latter locality was 

 settled upon without any question, as by all odds the most desirable 

 for our immediate purposes studies on the fauna and flora of the 

 tidal zone and its immediate neighborhood. The varied topograph- 

 ical and ecological conditions the high promotories, the acres of 

 rocky tide-pools exposed at low tide, the numerous small sand 

 beaches, all equally accessible together with the varied beauty of 

 all the natural surroundings, showed this to be a most uniquely 

 favorable place. We immediately rented a large house from Mr. 

 James T. Smith, and June 21 found us in possession with all the 

 necessary outfit for the proposed work. 



Miss C. K. Bice (now Mrs. A. C. Dyer of Kinsley, Kansas) had 

 kindly consented to serve as chaperon, and the following students 

 joined the party: Blanche E. Stafford, Vinnie B. Stout, Harry V. 

 M. Hall, Mabel Guernsey, John Guernsey, Leon Gardner, and some- 

 what later, Frank B. Cole. David L. Crawford, who was also one 

 of this group, carried on his work in the Claremont laboratory. With 



*In connection with these attempts, grateful acknowledgments should be made to 

 Miss M. Hathaway and Mr. Llewellyn Bixhy. 



