16 First Annual Report 
with funds in sight. An immediate necessity facing us is the need 
for books, the larger works of reference, standard works on marine 
exploration, the reports of other marine laboratories, and many 
special papers. All of these things we shall push hard for, and we 
are hoping that all friends of such work will stand with us loyally in 
this great effort. 
We hope to establish important co-operative relations with other 
laboratories of the sort, exchanging publications and material with 
them, and perhaps also, table facilities. There is not a point on the 
whole coast where the great west coast lobster (Panulirus interrup- 
tus) could be better investigated, or where abalones are more 
abundant, and none better for investigations along many other lines 
of marine biology, so that we hope to interest the Fish Commission 
in our efforts, get them to contribute full sets of their invaluable 
reports and bulletins, and perhaps to co-operate in other ways. 
The future is big with possibilities for this enterprise, educational 
and otherwise. It will take energy and hard work to realize these 
possibilities, but we are confidently expecting that many who appre- 
ciate great effort in great educational enterprises, will participate 
init with us. We invite all such to join us! 
C. F. Baxsr. 
