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September 1, 1936, Doctor Vaughan was suc- 

 ceeded as Director by Dr. H. U. Svcrdrup. 

 Location: On the sea front, about 2\ miles north 

 of the center of the village of La Jolla, and about 

 16 miles north of the city of San Diego. 

 Organization to which attached: University of Cali- 

 fornia, of which the Institution is a department. 

 Purposes: Major, research; also, general instruction 

 in oceanography, and special instruction in 

 different fields. 

 Scope of activities: Research and instruction in 

 dynamical oceanography and marine meteorology; 

 chemistry of sea water; biology, under which 

 bacteriology, phyto- and zooplankton, foramini- 

 fera, biology of fishes, and physiology of marine 

 organisms with reference to their environment, 

 are included; marine bottom deposits. 

 Equipment: The laboratory facDities provide for 

 researches of all kinds indicated by the "scope of 

 activities" and the specialties of the members of 

 the staff. In Ritter Hall there are three constant 

 temperature rooms. 



1 laboratory building (Geo. H. Scripps Labora- 

 tory), 2 floors, 75 x 48 ft. 

 1 laboratory building (Ritter Hall), 3 floors, 



100 X 46 ft. 

 1 museum-library building, 2 floors and about a 



I basement, 60 x 60 ft. 

 Library, more than 14,500 volumes, 30,000 



reprints. 

 1 wooden aquarium building, 24 x 48 ft., 18 



tanks. 

 1 re-enforced concrete pier, 1,000 ft. long, 20 

 ft. wide (permanent tidal, hydrographic, 

 and meteorological station). 

 1 re-enforced concrete .salt-water storage tank, 



capacity 60,000 gallons. 

 24 wooden cottage residences. 

 Several service buUdings and garages (tem- 

 porary structures). 

 Automatic tide-gage installed at the end of the 

 Institution's pier by U. S. Coast and Geodetic 

 Survey. 

 Anderson- Wood seismograph installed in the 

 basement of the Museum-Library building 

 by the Carnegie Institution's Committee on 

 Seismology. 

 1 research vessel, M. F. Maury, recently pur- 

 cha.sed through the generosity of Mr. R. P. 

 Scripps, a schooner 104 feet long, length on 

 the water line 86 feet, beam 20.5 feet, equipped 



with a Winton diesel engine of 175 h.p., and 

 under power has a speed of nine knots per hour. 

 The boat is equipped for any of the usual 

 kinds of oceanographic work and can make 

 voyages of any desired length. 

 Besides utilizing its own facilities for research 

 the Institution receives assistance from the 

 United States Navy, the United States Coast 

 and Geodetic Survey, the United States 

 Bureau of Lighthouses, the California FLsh 

 and Game Commission, a number of com- 

 mercial shipping companies, and other or- 

 ganizations. 

 Staff: Dr. Harald U. Sverdrup, Director (physical 

 oceanography, meteorology). 

 Dr. F. B. Sumner (biology of fishes). 

 Dr. G. F. McEwen (physical oceanography, 



meteorology). 

 Prof. W. E. Allen (phytoplankton). 

 Dr. E. G. Moberg (chemical oceanography). 

 Dr. D. L. Fox (physiology of marine organisms). 

 Dr. M. W. Johnson (zooplankton). 

 Dr. C. E. ZoBell (marine microbiology). 

 Dr. R. H. Fleming (physical and chemical 



oceanography). 

 Dr. Roger Revelle (physical oceanography and 



marine bottom deposits). 

 Dr. E. E. Cupp (phytoplankton). 

 Mr. P. S. Barnhart (fishes), Curator of biological 



collections. 

 Mr. S. W. Chambers, Associate in physical 



oceanography. 

 Research assistants, number variable. 



5 technical and clerical assistants. 



6 maintenance and operation workers. 

 Provisions for visiting investigators: Between 20 and ' 



25, in addition to the Institution's staff, can be 

 accommodated. 



l7ico7ne: Regular annual, nearly $95,000, about one- 

 half from the State of California and one-half 

 from the Scripps family. In addition, special 

 contributions of variable amount. 



Provisions for publication: The University of Cali- 

 fornia publishes a series entitled, "Bulletin of 

 the Scripps Institution of Oceanography of the 

 L^niversity of California, Technical Series," of 

 which three volumes have been published, and 

 for which a number of other papers have been 

 submitted. The members of the staff also publish 

 papers in various scientific periodicals. 



