10 first Annual WBeport 
REASON FOR BEING 
HERE are now a large number of marine laboratories in the 
world. These include several on our own Kast Coast and 
also several on the West Coast. Almost without exception 
they have been established for purposes of advanced univer- 
sity research of the most formal order. Reference is here made only 
to those laboratories which are confessedly part of great educational 
enterprises. A number of others have been instituted wholly or in 
Showing one of numerous small bays with sand beaches. At low tide, between 
the rocks in foreground and the point at left, a large bed of Phyllospadix is 
accessible. 
part, in connection with fisheries investigations. We are now adding 
one to the interesting list of marine laboratories, though this one is 
organized on a somewhat different basis than any that we know of, 
and for somewhat different purposes. We purpose to maintain a 
number of unique features in connection with this laboratory, as long 
as it shall exist as an annex of Pomona. 
