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large to erect and equip what was at that time a first class ma- 

 rine laboratory. The site selected for the huihlings was in 

 Pacific Grove, ]\ronterev Conntv, one hundred and twentv-six 

 miles down the coast from San Francisco. The buiklings were 

 erected in an open plot of ground directly overlooking the south 

 shore of ^[onterey Bay, a most excellent site for such an insti- 

 tution. 



Tlic lahrtratory, shown in Figure -IT, consists of two amply 

 lighted, two-story buildings, one of tliom supplied with a well 

 equi]>]K'd basement with concrete walls and floor. Both build- 

 ings are piped for a full supply r>f bofli fresh and marine water, 

 thus rendering possible a certain amount of ex])erimental biology 

 and the maintenance of aquaria. The buildings contain four 

 general laboratories for class use. Aside from these there are 

 seventeen ])rivate rooms especially fitted for investigators, a lec- 

 ture room, and a dark-room for pliptogra])liy. 



Little has been done along the line of equi])ping the labora- 

 tory with microscopes, books, or su])plies of various kinds, but 

 this is in a measure offset bv the free use made of equipment 

 brought to the laboratory each summer from the university of 

 whieh it is a part. To be sure, the buildings are not so well 

 equipped as those at Woods IToll or siuiilar institutions on the 

 Atlautie Toast, l)ut this fact has not been a serious drawback to 

 investigators who have already studied here. 



!>ituated as the laboratory is, it ])ossesses a peculiar advan- 

 tage over those loeate<l in sucli places as are exposed to the 

 much severe conditions of open ocean shores where the surf is 

 so violent as to very much limit the flora to such ruga:ed plants 

 as the sea palm ( Postelsia), the kelps, the Fucaceae and the 

 larger of the Tiliodopliycpae. The coast line accessible to the 

 laboratory offers a considerable varietv of rock formation and 

 numerous stretches of sandy shore all the way from Cypress 

 Point around to Santa Cruz, across the bay. Granite, however, 

 is the ])i'evailing shore rock and furnishes a field for an ex- 

 ceptionally large fauna as well as flora. With the possible ex- 

 ception of Puget Sound, it is doubtful wliether one could find 



