Summer School at Laguna Beach 



During the six weeks of summer school of the past season ( 1914) 

 there were in attendance about thirty students and investigators, 

 some of whom remained until the middle of September. In addition 

 to these there were several hundred visitors to the aquarium and 

 laboratory, in spite of the bad condition of the roads. After the 

 middle of the summer running salt water was piped to the labora- 

 tories and aquaria, so that it was much easier to keep specimens 



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alive. Yet even before this many interesting forms were on exhi- 

 bition. At all times there were numerous marine animals for study, 

 as well as many living land species, such as tarantulas, lizards, frogs, 

 a large turtle and a number of snakes. Several rattlesnakes were 

 kept in a box in the front of the building until the end of the sum- 

 mer. Several of the largest rattlesnakes were an unending source 



