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PUGET Sound Maeine Station, at Friday Harbor, San Juan Island, Washington. 



manent laboratory. This salmon-cannery hamlet of a few hundred 

 people situated on the eastern side of the large, partly agricultural San 

 Juan island, is distant from Seattle about four or five hours' run for 

 the small steamers which constitute the transportation system of the 

 islands of the Sound. That the natural conditions of this location are 

 good for the kind of work which the laboratory aims to do, there can 

 be no doubt. The distance from the mainland ports is something of 

 an inconvenience, but the isolation would seem to be a perpetual security 

 against contamination of the water by a large city and much shipping ; 

 and this is a consideration of great importance for such a laboratory. 



For a number of years the station went through the experience 

 familiar to such undertakings, that of playing cuckoo so far as housing 

 is concerned. In this instance the alien home was an abandoned salmon 

 cannery. 



But the persistence and enthusiasm of Professor Kincaid and his 

 colleagues finally bore fruit to the extent of a four-acre piece of land, 

 the gift of Captain Newhall, of Friday Harbor, as a permanent site; 

 a new laboratory building about seventy-five by thirty feet in floor area, 

 two stories high; a mess house about forty feet square; and forty-five 

 platform tents for living quarters. The buildings were provided by 

 the University of Washington on money appropriated by the state legis- 

 lature. The laboratory proper situated at the very water's edge, indeed, 

 partly over the water on piles, is at the foot of a beautiful wooded bank 

 that reaches up one hundred feet or more at an angle of full forty-five 

 degrees from the back door of the building. The first floor of the 

 laboratory is mostly one large room in which are the salt-water 

 aquaria and facilities for experimental work of various sorts. On 

 the second floor are nine private workrooms and a large room thirty 



