30 NATURAL SCIENCE [JuLy 
blue water, and the same setting of half tropical vegetation, although 
the mountainous background is lacking. The climate is here less 
variable than at Naples; the temperature remains almost constant 
throughout the year, each day averaging about 60°F., and during 
six of the months outdoor life is not interrupted by rain. The 
railroad line terminates at Pacific Grove. Here on one side of the 
railroad are bluffs and the rocky point on which the laboratory is 
situated, while on the other a tidy little town, with well kept villas, 
bright shops, lines of tents for the summer campers, a good hotel, 
and a small park-like square, rich in the deep greens and light 
olives of Californian plants. All about are scattered forest trees— 
live oaks, tall pines, eucalyptus and palms. With these are 
numerous trees and hedges of the Monterey cypress (C. macrocarpa), 
whose very restricted range gives it an especial interest. 
Point Aulon, the little promontory on which the laboratory is 
situated, juts out from the western end of the town. It has been 
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fenced off as a kind of marine park for the cottagers; and here at 
all times throughout the summer may be seen clusters of people, 
old and young, idling away their holidays, clambering about the 
rocks, or watching the ceaseless strings of cormorants, or the doings 
of the little school of boats huddled closely together off the point 
salmon catching, or the return of the little fleet of Chinese fisher- 
men, whose curious town may be seen on a projecting coast point 
in the direction of Monterey. Such a thing as the sight of an 
occasional whale or sea-lion, and these will come surprisingly near 
the point, or even the loss of a straw hat, will cause a flutter of 
excitement among the summer visitors, diverting their attention, as 
a student will uncharitably believe, from their attempts to invade 
the penetralia of the laboratory. 
Our second illustration (Fig. 2) gives a west view of the two 
buildings. The older, used during the first and second sessions of 
the summer school in 1892 and 1893, stands to the left, long, and 
