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aid was $300 given by the town of Pacific Grove, and $500 given by the Pacific 

 Improvement Company. With this a temporary establishment was maintained. 



This beginning was pnt on a firmer basis by the generosity of Mr. Timothy 

 Hopkins, a resident of San Francisco, and tlie present laboratory, known as the 

 "Hopkins' Seaside Laboratory," is the result. 



Pacific Grove is on Monterey Bay, two miles from the old California capital 

 of Monterey, and is reached by a branch of the Southern Pacific Railway and by 

 the Pacific Steamship Line. The coast is irregular and rocky, yielding great va- 

 riety of forms. Working material may be gotten from the Chinese and Portugese 

 fishermen, both of whom have villages there. 



There are two buildings ; the older one contains three general laboratories, 

 a supply room and seven rooms for investigators ; the other building has a gen- 

 eral lecture room, library room, a general laboratory, ten rooms for investigators 

 and a dark room for photographic work. The basement is designed for aquaria. 

 The library and apparatus of Leland Stanford University is used. Each stud- 

 ent is provided with a compound microscope, reagents and all accessary apparatus 

 needful in his work. Salt and fresh water is in both buildings and so distributed 

 that each student may preserve his collections. The investigators' rooms are sim- 

 ilarlv provided. The laboratory provides for three classes of students: 



Firi<t. Investigators who are capable of carrying on independent researches 

 in morphology or physiology. 



Second. Students of Stanford University, who wish to pursue their work 

 nnder more favorable circumstances and gain knowledge of practical methods of 

 research. 



Third. Students and teachers interested in biology, who wish to become ac- 

 (piainted with recent biological methods. For these courses of lectures are pro- 

 vided, supplemented by individual instruction at the work tables. 



The spirit of the school is excellent. No hours are definitely appointed, 

 but students may be found at work from early in the morning until late at night. 

 Although the laboratory has been open practically only three years the advance- 

 ment already made and the evidence of increasing interest assure its future pros- 

 ])erity and growth. 



Infection by Uread. By Katherine E. Golden. 



In recent vears, since the subject of bacteriology has made such headway, 

 there !• ve been numerous scares among the peojtle; sometimes it is tuberculosis 

 in mdk and meat, then the development of ptomaines in fish, clams, canned goods, 

 etc. the list going on iiideiinitely. Among these the dangers from bread baked 



