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with funds in sight. An immediate necessity facing us is the need 

 for books, the larger works of reference, standard works on marine 

 exploration, the reports of other marine laboratories, and many 

 special papers. All of these things we shall push hard for, and we 

 are hoping that all friends of such work will stand witli us loyally in 

 this great effort. 



We hope to establish important co-operative relations with other 

 laboratories of the sort, exchanging publications and material with 

 them, and perhaps also, table facilities. There is not a point on the 

 whole coast where the great west coast lobster (Panulirus intcrrup- 

 tiix) could lie better investigated, or where abalones are more 

 abundant, and none better for investigations along many other lines 

 of marine biology, so that we hope to interest the Fish Commission 

 in our efforts, get them to contribute full sets of their invaluable 

 reports and bulletins, and perhaps to co-operate in other ways. 



The future is big with possibilities for this enterprise, educational 

 and otherwise. It will take energy and hard work to realize these 

 possibilities, but we are confidently expecting that many who appre- 

 ciate great effort in great educational enterprises, will participate 

 in it with us. We invite all such to join us ! 



C. P. BAKER. 



