Laguna Marine Laboratory 15 
FOR THE FUTURE 
CTING on the suggestion which originated with Mr. James T. 
Smith, a movement was started by the people of Laguna 
looking towards the permanent establishment of a marine 
laboratory at that place. This would involve, first of all, the 
erection of a suitable building, with aquaria, with facilities for the 
handling of a small stream of salt water, and with adequate labora- 
tory facilities for students. The Laguna Improvement Association 
took the matter up, and has pushed it along with most commendable 
perseverance. Their efforts were most generously met and sup- 
ported by the Laguna Beach Company—this company offering to 
give a large plot of land and one thousand dollars towards a fund of 
four thousand to set the enterprise on foot and get the building 
started. The Laguna Improvement Association set out to raise the 
additional three thousand, and this has been partly subscribed. A 
tremendous effort is now being made to complete this amount. 
The matter of the publication of results was taken up at a joint 
meeting of the Laguna Improvement Association, representatives of 
the Laguna Beach Company (Mr. Bumstead and Mr. Jahraus) and 
representatives of the College (President Blaisdell, Dr. Cook 
and Professor Baker), and funds were at that time pledged, 
sufficient for the first year—Dr. Cook, with his splendid 
optimism, assuming the heaviest share of this pledge. In 
the raising of his share of the pledge, Dr. Cook has had the sup- 
port of his friends, Mr. C. E. Harwood, Mr. N. W. Blanchard, Mrs. 
Renwick, Mr. C. C. Reynolds, the Kingsley, Mason and Collins Co., 
and three others. The Laguna contribution to the publication fund 
came from Mr. H. G. Heisler (for the Laguna Beach Company), Mr. 
L. N. Brooks, Mr. J. N. Isch, and Mr. James T. Smith. 
After a building becomes a reality, then we shall take up the fight 
for proper facilities—especially aquaria, books and boats. More 
than any other one thing, we shall need a strong, large, power boat, 
for extending the radius of our activities up and down the coast, and 
for work in the deeper waters off shore. We shall need most urgent- | 
ly a fuller equipment of nets, traps, tangles, and other collecting 
devices. We shall need a fuller equipment of aquaria than we can get 
