34 



NATURAL SCIENCE 



[July 



first of the several workers at the laboratory to secure embryos of 

 Bdellostoma ; while on the botanical side F. M. M'Farland and 

 L. H. Campbell have been in frequent attendance. President Jordan 

 has also taken the warmest personal interest in the work of the 

 station, and although his researches have hardly been carried on at 

 Pacific Grove, he has, nevertheless, been a constant visitor. 



It is evident, perhaps, from the foregoing pages that the zoologi- 

 cal station of the Stanford University has neither the equipment 

 nor the subsidies of the Stazione at Naples, or even, as yet, of the 

 laboratory at Wood's Holl ; but the zoologist will certainly find 

 there all of the facilities for his work which can reasonably be 

 needed. The warm interest which Dr. Jenkins has shewn in the 

 welfare of each worker of the station will not be forgotten ; and it 

 is doubtless due in no small degree to this care that the visitor 



Fig. 4. — The Coast of the Pacific at Cypress Point, near Monterey. 



takes away with him the kindliest recollections of Stanford's hospi- 

 tality. The richness of the fauna and flora of this little nook in the 

 Pacific cannot fail to leave the strongest impression upon the 

 visitor's mind. He will remember the rugged shore line, with its 

 stunted and twisted cypresses (Fig. 4), the sunken rocks bristling 

 with the largest sea-urchins, the bright-coloured star-fishes, the 

 orange-red Cucumaria, a yard in length. So too the tidal rocks 

 covered with Pollicipes, the clumps of palm-tree-shaped Postelsia, 

 the tangled masses of bull-kelp (Nereucystis lutcana), whose stems 

 are often many fathoms in length ; the field-like areas of Macrocystis 

 (i)/. 'pyrifera) ; the rich molluscan fauna, including the red shelled 

 Haliotis, to be found even at the base of the laboratory rocks, 

 Cryptochiton (C. stellcri) seven inches long, and abundant nudibranchs. 

 There is a wealth of ascidians, annelids and hydroids. Nor does 



