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with many windows. It measures sixty feet long by twenty feet 

 wide. The newer, smaller, but more substantial building measures 

 forty by twenty-six feet. From the figure one may also see the 

 two large salt-water tanks, which have been so arranged that each 

 can supply either building. The older building is now used mainly 

 for the classes of elementary students. It has two laboratories on 

 the ground floor, a small engine room, and a concreted workshop, 

 which serves as a dissecting room for the larger marine beasts. 

 Upstairs a long laboratory faces the east, and on the south side a 

 series of small separate rooms have been arranged for investigators. 

 In the newer building a laboratory occupies the rear end of the 

 ground floor, used during last summer mainly for students in the 

 botanical courses ; and on the floor just above there is a room of 

 the same size, with blackboards, cases, and portable tables, used 

 both as a lecture room and laboratory. The front part of the house 

 in both storeys is divided by partitions into a dozen rooms for in- 

 vestigators, and it has, in addition, a photographic dark room. 

 Throughout both buildings the fittings are simple but adequate. 

 There is an abundant supply of microscopes, reagents, glassware 

 and the usual set of dredges, tangles, and nets, a small beam-trawl, 

 and apparatus for sounding and temperature-taking. At present 

 the boat facilities include only a rowing boat and a small sailing 

 boat, the latter almost too small for dredging or trawling, except in 

 comparatively shallow water. Hitherto, however, the laboratory 

 seems scarcely to have needed collecting facilities for . the deeper 

 water — enough at least to warrant the support of a steam vessel. 

 The shore fauna has been of the richest, and dredging in shallow 

 water could well be done with the boat at hand. As a convenient 

 ■means of collecting in the shallow rocky bays a water-glass has 

 been found of great service, especially in securing conspicuous 

 forms such as echinoderms and holothurians, and has to a certain 

 degree served as a substitute for diving apparatus, which here, as at 

 the French marine station at Banyuls, might well prove of the 

 greatest value. The station has never found difficulty in securing 

 an abundant supply of fish material, thanks to the Chinese fishermen 

 of the neighbouring village. 



A whole article might be written on this small Chinese village 

 near Monterey. It is but a quarter of an hour's walk from the 

 laboratory, approached along the ledge of the railroad on the seaside 

 rim of the town — a daily walk for a number of the students, who 

 have come to have the greatest faith in the fishing powers of the 

 heathen. This walk is by no means an uninteresting one ; the sea- 

 birds are around, whitening the tall rocky ledges, and on every hand 

 there are quantities of little ground squirrels — a species of sper- 

 mophile — which sit up before the visitor like little prairie dogs. 



