United States of America 205 



California Academy of Sciences 



POSTAL ADDRESS: Golden Gate Park, San Francisco 18, 



California, USA. 

 EXECUTIVH OFFICER: Dr. Robert C. Miller, Director. 

 SPONSORING AGENCY: Privately financed laboratory. 



YEAR FOUNDED: 1853. 



SCOPE OF ACTIVITIES: Unrestricted research in general 

 marine and fresh-water biology; graduate instruction. 



SEASON OF OPERATION: All year. 



PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT ACCESSIBLE: Pacific Ocean, 

 San Francisco Bay and tributaries, Tomales and Bolinas 

 bays. Lake Merced (oligotrophic lake) ; several small 

 fresh-water lakes and ponds, sandy and silty beaches, 

 rocky and gravelly shores, estuarine conditions and 

 brackish, shallow bays. 



PROVISIONS FOR VISITING SCIENTISTS: Space for visi- 

 tors; no fees charged; living quarters available nearby. 



MAJOR RESEARCH AND TEACHING FACILITIES: Very ex- 

 tensive library; running sea and fresh-water, small 

 aquarium tanks; considerable research collection of 

 marine invertebrates, much of it from deep water; 

 large identified reference collections of named aquatic 

 insects, Crustacea, Mollusca, Bryozoa, Brachiopoda, 

 Echinodermata, etc. 



INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAM: Limnology, fishery biology, 

 population dynamics, general marine biology and in- 

 vertebrate paleontology. Graduate credit to be ob- 

 tained from neighboring universities. 



SIZE OF STAFF: Thirty at professional level; 20 tech- 

 nicians. 



IMPORTANT SPECIES AVAILABLE FOR LABORATORY 

 STUDIES: 



Poly ch acta: Nereis liwiiicola 



Mysidacea: Neomysis mercedis 



Echinodermata: Pisaster ochraceus, Strongylocen- 



trotiis (3 sp.) 

 Elasmobranchii: Sqiialtis snckleyi, Notoryncbus tiia- 



culatus 



MAJOR CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS AND SCIENTIFIC 

 LEADERS: 



Distribution and biology of marine mammals (Robert 



T. Orr) 

 Taxonomy and distribution of California fishes (W. L 



Follett) 

 Aquatic resources of San Francisco Bay (Earl S. 



Herald) 

 Fish diseases (Robert P. Dempster) 

 Biology of marine boring organisms (Robert C. 



Miller) 

 Behavior of clupeoid fishes (Anatole S. Loukashkin) 

 Aquatic Coleoptera (Hugh B. Leech) 

 Mollusca of Point Barrow (G. Dallas Hanna) 

 Amphineura of the world ( Allyn G. Smith) 



PUBLICATIONS ISSUED: 



Proceedings (occasionally published contributions) 

 Pacific Discovery (bi-monthly) 

 Annual report for general distribution 



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 ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 



California State Department of Fish and 

 Game 



laboratories: 



1. Marine Resources Branch 



a. Marine Resources Operation 



2. Inland Fisheries Branch (Field Station) 

 publications issued: 



California Fish and Game (quarterly journal) 

 Biennial Reports. California Fish and Game 



Marine Resources Branch (Administrative 

 Headquarters) 



POSTAL address: 822 Capitol Avenue, Sacramento, 

 California, USA. 



executive officer: William Ellis Ripley, Acting 

 Chief. 



scope of activities: Restricted and unrestricted re- 

 search related to the development of the marine 

 fisheries of California. 



SIZE of staff: Eleven at professional level; about 10 

 technicians. 



Marine Resources Operation 



postal address: 



Operational Headquarters: State Fisheries Labora- 

 tory, 511 Tuna Street, Terminal Island, California. 

 Branches: 



1. Hopkins Marine Station, Pacific Grove, Cali- 

 fornia. 



2. Stanford Laboratory, North Rotunda, Museum 

 Building, Stanford, California. 



3. Eureka Laboratory, 127 G Street, Eureka, Cali- 

 fornia. 



location: Headquarters is near Los Angeles. 

 EXECUTIVE OFFICER: Phil M. Roedel, Manager. 



