1897] A CALIFORNIAN MARINE BIOLOGICAL STATION 29 



of students, a summer settlement of possibly five hundred people 

 being in the immediate neighbourhood. It was here finally that 

 land was obtained, a gift of the Pacific Grove Improvement Com- 

 pany, and the buildings were shortly put up and equipped, thanks 

 to the generosity of Mr Timothy Hopkins, after whom the laboratory 

 has been named. 



The buildings are shown in the adjoining figure (Fig. 1), but 



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Fig. 1. — The Hopkins Seaside Laboratory, near Monterey, California. East view.* 



the picture gives only a slight idea of their surroundings ; thus they 

 are seen to be built on a level field, and there is but a glimpse of 

 the sea in the background. One needs, therefore, to imagine the 

 laboratory site as a small treeless plateau, on the top of an abrupt 

 rocky point which terminates about a hundred yards to the right in 

 the picture. The sea surrounds the buildings, therefore, on three 

 sides. In front there is a sheltered harbour and a small sandy 

 beach, furnishing an admirable landing place for the boats ; at the 

 back the surf is breaking on the rocks thirty feet below — hardly 

 far enough away as it has been proved, for in the winter storms the 

 waves have threatened to overturn the buildings, and have rendered 

 necessary the additional braces which one sees at the corners of the 

 building. From its position the laboratory becomes a prominent 

 feature of the entire neighbourhood. The visitor will not fail to 

 notice it even at the incoming of his train, for he naturally will be 

 looking seaward after his three hours' journey from San Francisco. 

 He will just have passed through the hot and dusty valley country, 

 but his interest revives as the train emerges on the sea-coast at 

 Monterey, thence to skirt the shore of the bay during the few final 

 minutes of the trip. 



The bay of Monterey appears not unlike that of Naples. There 

 is the same long curving beach, broken with rocky points, the clear 



* The illustrations have been prepared by Mr Percy Buckman from photographs 

 taken by the author. 



