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POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



down the beach in search of those giant brown plants of the ocean, 

 called kelps. He leads us a merry scramble, and at last finds what 

 he is looking for (Dictyoneuron calif ornicum ) and sits on a boulder 

 and gives us an open air lecture upon kelps in general and this one 

 in particular. At its conclusion he announces that we must hurry 

 back in order not to be late to dinner, for promptness in all things 

 is the rule in this school. He who does not appear at meal time 

 doesn't get any meal, that is all. It is a simple rule, and it is very 

 effective. 



After the noon meal the geologist takes his class out for their 

 first lecture, finding a rocky, water-worn cove close by the water, where 



A July Night on Vancouver Island. 



we gather while he tells of the agency of water in rock formation and 

 sculpture, with the cove itself as an example. No method of in- 

 struction could be more simple, none more effective. After the lecture 

 we wander for hours over the rocks and study the strata in the cliffs 

 above us. When we get tired of rocks we peer into the tide-pools 

 and study the wonderful vegetation, of a kind all unknown to the 

 inland botanist. Then we poke the spiny sea urchins in their snug 

 niches in the pools, and pester the curious sea anemones, which are to 

 be found everywhere. We watch the crabs, who in turn watch us 

 and scuttle away sidewise with a very knowing look in their funny eyes. 

 And thus the days go. There is always something a-going. One 



