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In keeping with the relatively simple technic of the studies which 

 have made this biologist famous, the Herzstein lahoratory is small and 

 inexpensive. It is a plain, one-story wooden building, about forty-five 

 feet square, divided into three fairly good-sized rooms, two small store 

 rooms and a dark room. It is provided with an alternating electric 

 current, and running fresh water, but not with gas or salt water. The 

 small quantities of sea water needed are brought to the laboratory from 

 the nearby sea by hand. A good supply of glassware for experimenta- 

 tion on simple animals is always on hand. 



As already indicated, the laboratory is operated in close connection, 

 so far as research is concerned, with the department of physiology at 

 Berkeley. ISTo provision is made or is hardly possible for formal in- 

 struction or for any considerable number of investigators, or for much 

 range of investigation. 



At present Professor's. S. Maxwell, as head of the department of 

 physiolog}% also has charge of the laboratory. Professor Loeb's use of 

 it has not ceased, although he has severed his connection with the Uni- 

 versity of California. He has spent considerable time at Pacific Grove 

 during the last two years. 



Going on down the coast to southern California, the undertakings 

 at Venice and Laguna Beach must first be noticed in following the 

 geographical order of treatment. Although, as intimated in the open- 

 ing paragraph, these have not attained a strong and permanent exist- 

 ence, they have been useful as adjuncts to the teaching facilities of the 

 colleges to which they belong, the University of Southern California, 

 and Pomona College. The Venice Station possesses a power launch of 

 sufficient size and equipment to make possible a good amount of collect- 

 ing at sea. The director of the station is Albert B. Ulrey, professor 

 of zoology in the University of Southern California. 



The sugsrestion mav be ventured here that the California coast south 

 of Point Conception ought to have one good teaching sea-side laboratory 

 which should have the support of all the schools and colleges in the 

 south. We biologists of the southwest must, I think, allow that we are 

 aspiring less wisely than are our colleagues of the northwest in the very 

 important matter of promoting sea-side studies by young men and 

 women. 



The Scripps Institution for Biological Eesearch being situated at 

 the extreme southern end of the Pacific coast line of the United States 

 must accept last place in this survey. 



A somewhat full account of this station was published by the writer 



in 1912,^ and the accessibility of this makes an extended statement here 



superfluous. 



i"The Marine Biological Station of San Diego, Its History, Present Con- 

 ditions, Achievements and Aims," Univ. of Calif. Publ. in Zool., Vol. 9, No. 4, 

 March 9, 1912, pp. 137-248. 



