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of students, a summer settlement of possibly five hundred people 
being in the immediate neighbourhood. It was here finally that 
land was obtained, a gift of the Pacific Grove Improvement Com- 
pany, and the buildings were shortly put up and equipped, thanks 
to the generosity of Mr Timothy Hopkins, after whom the laboratory 
has been named. 
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Fic. 1.—The Hopkins Seaside Pauoetiney: near Monterey, California. East view.* 
the picture gives only a slight idea of their surroundings ; thus they 
are seen to be built on a level field, and there is but a glimpse of 
the sea in the background. One needs, therefore, to imagine the 
laboratory site as a small treeless plateau, on the top of an abrupt 
rocky point which terminates about a hundred yards to the right in 
the picture. The sea surrounds the buildings, therefore, on three 
sides. In front there is a sheltered harbour and a small sandy 
beach, furnishing an admirable landing place for the boats; at the 
back the surf is breaking on the rocks thirty feet below—hardly 
far enough away as it has been proved, for in the winter storms the 
waves have threatened to overturn the buildings, and have rendered 
necessary the additional braces which one sees at the corners of the 
building. From its position the laboratory becomes a prominent 
feature of the entire neighbourhood. The visitor will not fail to 
notice it even at the incoming of his train, for he naturally will be 
looking seaward after his three hours’ journey from San Francisco. 
He will just have passed through the hot and dusty valley country, 
but his interest revives as the train emerges on the sea-coast at 
Monterey, thence to skirt the shore of the bay during the few final 
minutes of the trip. 
. The bay of Monterey appears not unlike that of Naples. There 
is the same long curving beach, broken with rocky points, the clear 
* The illustrations have been prepared by Mr Perey Buckman from photographs 
taken by the author. 
