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A Californian Marine Biological Station. 
f ane European zoologist who visited the Pacific states would be 
very apt to find his way to the old Spanish-Californian town 
of Monterey, and to the Marine Laboratory of the Leland Stanford 
Junior University. As this station, however, seems to the present 
writer surprisingly little known in proportion to its deserts, a brief 
account of its equipment and surroundings ay prove of interest to 
the readers of Natural Science. 
This at the present time is the only permanent biological station 
on the American side of the Pacific. Temporary stations have 
indeed been established within recent years. The University of 
California has several times carried on a seaside school of zoology, 
both at Pacific Grove near Monterey, and on the Santa Catalina 
Islands in the region of Santa Barbara. Further northward, in 
Puget Sound, Washington, a local society, that of the Young 
Naturalists of Seattle, has done excellent faunal work during its 
camping seasons; and in the same region during last summer 
Columbia University of New York established a laboratory at Port 
Townsend. 
The Stanford, or the Hopkins Laboratory, as it is called, is both 
an annexe and an integral part of its university. It was, indeed, 
contemplated as early as the time of the building of the university, 
when it was decided that a portion of the studies in zoology and 
botany might be carried on during the summer, the students to be 
given the regular credit for their work as in the winter courses. 
It was, accordingly, with a summer laboratory in view, that in 1891 
two of the Stanford professors, Drs O. P. Jenkins and C. H. Gilbert, 
visited the region of Monterey (which had indeed been known to 
Dr Gilbert previously during his studies on the fishes of the Pacific), 
and made a reconnaissance to determine the particular point of the 
bay which was best suited to the needs of the collector and investi- 
gator. The site they then determined upon was at Pacific Grove, a 
few miles westward of Monterey. Here, in the first place were 
found most favourable fields for collecting, The shores were 
unshifting, the coast was rugged, while huge ‘rock masses and bluffs 
alternated with sheltered harboue and beaches, rich in forms of 
animals and seaweed life, The locality seemed also a particularly 
convenient one on account of its facilities for the lodging and living 
