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NATURAL SCIENCE 



[July 



blue water, and the same setting of half tropical vegetation, although 

 the mountainous background is lacking. The climate is here less 

 variable than at Naples ; the temperature remains almost constant 

 throughout the year, each day averaging about 60°R, and during 

 six of the months outdoor life is not interrupted by rain. The 

 railroad line terminates at Pacific Grove. Here on one side of the 

 railroad are bluffs and the rocky point on which the laboratory is 

 situated, while on the other a tidy little town, with well kept villas, 

 bright shops, lines of tents for the summer campers, a good hotel, 

 and a small park-like square, rich in the deep greens and light 

 olives of Californian plants. All about are scattered forest trees — 

 live oaks, tall pines, eucalyptus and palms. With these are 

 numerous trees and hedges of the Monterey cypress (C. macrocarpa), 

 whose very restricted range gives it an especial interest. 



Point Aulon, the little promontory on which the laboratory is 

 situated, juts out from the western end of the town. It has been 



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Fid. 2. — The Hopkins Laboratory. West view. 



fenced off as a kind of marine park for the cottagers ; and here at 

 all times throughout the summer may be seen clusters of people, 

 old and young, idling away their holidays, clambering about the 

 rocks, or watching the ceaseless strings of cormorants, or the doings 

 of the little school of boats huddled closely together off the point 

 salmon catching, or the return of the little fleet of Chinese fisher- 

 men, whose curious town may be seen on a projecting coast point 

 in the direction of Monterey. Such a thing as the sight of an 

 occasional whale or sea-lion, and these will come surprisingly near 

 the point, or even the loss of a straw hat, will cause a flutter of 

 excitement among the summer visitors, diverting their attention, as 

 a student will uncharitably believe, from their attempts to invade 

 the penetralia of the laboratory. 



Our second illustration (Fig. 2) gives a west view of the two 

 buildings. The older, used during the first and second sessions of 

 the summer school in 1892 and 1893, stands to the left, long, and 



