VOL. IV.] The Hopkins Seaside Laboratory. 6i 



spring, erected a laboratory consisting of a plain wooden struct- 

 ure of two stories, sixty by twenty-five feet. 



It is located on the coast near the railroad station just next 

 to what is known as " The Point," or Point Anion. On the first 

 floor are two general laboratories for elementary students, a store- 

 room and a library room. On the second floor is a third general 

 laboratory and six private laboratories for investigators. The 

 laboratories, both general and private, are furnished with aquaria, 

 which are supplied with running sea-water. The sea-water is 

 obtained from a source which allows it to be perfectly pure. The 

 water is pumped by a gasoline engine to a tank from which the 

 supply is distributed. The Laboratory is also abundantly 

 furnished with excellent fresh water. The Laboratory possesses 

 a very full supply of glassware and reagents. Whatever is 

 needed in the way of microscopes, microtomes, embedding 

 apparatus, and physiological apparatus is taken from the labora- 

 tories of Leland Stanford University for the summer. Of this, 

 supply there is a good stock to draw from. The Laboratory also 

 possesses a limited amount of collecting apparatus and two boats. 



Monterey Bay being a fishing station of considerable impor- 

 tance renders it possible to make use of many outside advantages 

 for collecting. 



The session of last summer was under the direction of Dr. C. 

 H. Gilbert, Professor of Zoology, and Dr. O. P. Jenkins, Pro- 

 fessor of Physiolog3' and Histology of Leland Stanford Junior 

 University. They were assisted by Mr. F. M. McFarland, 

 Instructor in Histology, Mr. C W. Greene, Assistant in Physi- 

 ology, and Mr. B. M. Davis, Assistant in Botany in the same 

 institution. 



Seventeen students were in attendance, representing some 

 half dozen States and several institutions of learning. 



The experience of this, the first season, demonstrated clearly 

 enough that the choice of the location is a fortunate one in every 

 way. The forms of plants and animals are wonderfully rich in 

 variety, in the numbers of individuals, in interest, in novelty, and 

 in accessibility. It proves a perfect paradise for the marine biolo- 

 gist. Of course, a single season has only served as a beginning 

 toward opening the gates to the treasures here to be gathered. 



