128 BIOLOGICAL LECTURES. 



literature in connection with any biological laboratory in this 



country. From this time on the station is to be kept in readi- 



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 ness for the use of investigators at all seasons of the year. 



Thus you see the needs of biological research at the sea- 

 shore are appreciated and provided for on the Pacific coast in 

 a manner worthy of emulation by men of means on this side 

 of the continent. How long must we wait for the needed 

 financial support of our permanent station here } Our need:? 

 are urgent, and they should be met at once. Here is a great 

 opportunity which will hardly recur in this generation. 



The Hopkins Seaside Laboratory stands near the beach on 

 a rocky point forming part of the peninsula which constitutes 

 the southern boundary of the granite basin known as the Bay 

 of Monterey. It is in the town of Pacific Grove, two miles 

 distant, west from Monterey, anel 128 miles south of San 

 Francisco. The station consists, at present, of a plain frame- 

 building, very similar to the original building of the Wood's 

 Holl Laboratory, though additions to it are to be made this 

 year. A pump and tank house is added to the east end of the 

 building for supplying the station with sea-water, which is 

 pumped up more than twenty-five feet above the sea level to 

 the supjily tank, from which it flows through the various 

 aquaria in the building, and thence into the large, out-ot-door 

 ground aquarium, in which large animals and class supplies of 

 the hardier small animals are kej^t. The faima and flora of 

 the Bay of Monterey are very rich ; but, until they are more 

 thoroughly studied, we cannot accuratel)' estimate the cer- 

 tainly very large number of forms, both rare and common, or 

 the abundance of the indi\iduals of the species most valuable 

 for the work of the station. 



In general, we may sa\- that the fauna and flora is sub- 

 tropical, and it is rendeied so b)- a very constant, almost 

 unvarying temperature, which axerages 65'/- the year through, 

 and also by its nearness to the northern boimds of the tropical 

 seas of Central and South America. 



One of the features of the station is its nearness to a 

 Chinese fishing village, from which much of the material for 

 work is obtained. I'ish ai'c caught almost entircK' In' means 



