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feet by thirty feet Avhicli is used for various laboratory and otlier pur- 

 poses. Besides the work space in the laboratory building a laboratory 

 for botanical study has been fitted ujd in the basement of the commons 

 building. 



The station owns a fleet of a dozen row boats, but as yet no power 

 boat, dependence been placed so far on hired boats for the heavier bot- 

 tom collecting. 



This station stands alone among its kind on the Pacific coast in 

 aiming to be intercollegiate in constitution and maintenance. AVhile, 

 as already indicated, the "plant *' has been furnished by the state, and 

 is owned by the university ; and while the state is at present supplying 

 nearly all the maintenance funds, about $3,000 a year, a system of co- 

 operating institutions is nevertheless being worked out. At present the 

 Universities of Kansas and Oregon and the Washington State jSTormal 

 School at Billingham are, I believe, the only institutions in the partner- 

 ship, but the plan is being earnestly pushed and other schools and 

 colleges, notably Eeed College of Portland, Oregon, seem likely to 

 enter. 



So far the laboratory has not aimed at much beyond formal instruc- 

 tion and general information-getting on the part of those who assemble 

 there ; and sessions have been restricted to a few weeks in the summer. 

 The session of 1913 saw an attendance of about one hundred teachers 

 and students, these being drawn from a "^vide area of the northwestern 

 United States. This considerable number may be taken to indicate 

 the reality of the demand for oj^portunity for this kind of study in this 

 region. ISTo doubt this demand will increase and will soon expand to 

 include advanced specialized studies and genuine investigation as well 

 as elementary instruction and general information. Since the begin- 

 ning of the session of 1914 Professor T. C. Frye, of the department of 

 botany of the University of Washington, has been director of the station, 

 Professor Kincaid having turned his interest and efforts in other 

 directions. 



Traveling down the coast from Puget Sound to central California, 

 one finds the Timothy Hopkins laboratory at Pacific Grove on Monterey 

 Bay belonging to the Leland Stanford Junior University. This is the 

 pioneer among the marine laboratories on the Pacific coast, its life 

 being practically coexistent with that of the university of which it is a 

 part. It began its work in 1893, only about a year after the university 

 opened its doors. It is also the most commodiously housed of the 

 western stations, and, in keeping with its greater age and size, has fur- 

 nished facilities to more biologists than any of the other Pacific coast 

 laboratories. 



About eighty students can be accommodated in the station's two 

 buildings. There are four general laboratories, one lecture room, and 



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