ScRiPPS Institution of Oceanography of the University of California. — This insti- 

 tution, started in 1892 as a seaside laboratory for studying the natural history of marine organ- 

 isms, has been located since 1910 on the present 177-acre campus two miles north of La JoUa 

 and sixteen miles from the center of San Diego. It now has three modern well-equipped build- 

 ings divided into forty laboratories and offices, several smaller service buildings, a 1000- foot 

 pier, and a 104-foot research vessel shown in the foreground. The permanent resident staff 

 consists of a dozen scientists and two dozen assistants who together with graduate students 

 and visiting investigators devote their energies to the study of marine microbiology, botany, 

 zoology, ecology, biochemistry, hydrography, meteorology, geology, physical oceanography, 

 and other marine sciences. This sketch as well as the vignettes in this volume were prepared 

 by Alma Broulik Carxin. 



