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INTERNATIONAL ASPECTS OF OCEANOGRAPHY 



Marine Biological Station, University of Southern 

 California ('37) 



Location: Since the burning of the Marine Station 

 building in 1921, the station has been located at 

 University Park, and since 1928 when a new 

 Science Building was completed has been housed 

 in especially prepared rooms on the fourth floor 

 of that building. This is some twelve miles from 

 the sea-coast, and located just off the Exposition 

 Park area. 



Organization to tohich attached: The Marine Station 

 and its facilities are maintained as an integral 

 part of the Department of Biology at the Uni- 

 versity of Southern California. 



Purposes: Major purpose — research. 



Courses are offered on the graduate level 

 in marine plant biology, marine survey, animal 

 biology, and marine research. These courses 

 assume major work in the fields of either Zoology 

 or Botany. 



/Scope of activities: Since its establishment in 1911 

 trawling and dredging work has been carried on 

 almost continuously with emphasis upon ecological 

 relationships of marine forms in the southern 

 California waters. Some investigations have 

 been on the classification of fishes, the study of 

 plankton, foraminifera, and physiological rela- 

 tionships of marine organisms. Certain phases of 

 oceanography have been in progress in later years 

 with an attempt to gather some data on the tem- 

 perature fluctuations and variations in the 

 physico-chemical composition of the sea water. 



Equipment: Laboratory facilities on the fourth floor 

 of the new Science Hall include: Office space for 

 the permanent members of the staff; small re- 

 search rooms for independent investigation, 

 together with several cubicles for graduate 

 students under supervision; a small library; 

 desks equipped with gas, electricity, compressed 

 air; a closed system of sea water aquaria of about 

 500 gallons capacity; a large preparation room for 

 pre.serving and taking care of marine collections; 

 ample space and locker material for filing materials 

 in proper phylogenetic order. 



Staff: Director, Dr. Francis M. Baldwin. 



Full-time members of the teaching staff. Depart- 

 ments of Botany and Zoology, University of 

 Southern California, who contribute to investi- 

 gation and direction of research work as time 

 permits. 

 Part-time: skipper of the launch, first mate. 



Provisions for visiting investigators: Not more than 



10 at a time, limited to trained investigators 

 working on their own problems, or under the 

 guidance of resident members of the staff. 



Income: Funds from the University of California. 



Provisiojis for tlie publication of results: None re- 

 ported. 



Hopkins Marine Station of Stanford University ('37) 



History or origin: Four names are inseparably 

 associated with the founding of the Hopkins 

 Seaside Laboratory in 1892: Timothy Hopkins, 

 David Starr Jordan, Charles Henry Gilbert, 

 Oliver Peebles Jenkins. Back of the obvious 

 desirability of a marine biological laboratory in 

 connection with a new university of great promise 

 was the example of Anton Dohrn's Naples labora- 

 tory which had greatly impressed Mr. Hopkins, 

 and the Penikese experiment of Louis Agassiz 

 in which Dr. Jordan played a part at a formative 

 stage of his career. 



After a careful examination of various sites 

 along the coast. Pacific Grove, upon the southern 

 side of Monterey Bay, was selected as combining 

 the most desirable features. Through the gener- 

 ous cooperation of Mr. Timothy Hopkins and the 

 Pacific Improvement Company a suitable site 

 and a sum of money sufficient to erect the first 

 building were donated. A plain two-story frame 

 structure, twenty-five by sixty feet in ground 

 dimensions, was erected on Point Anion, a low- 

 rocky headland, and the first session of the new 

 laboratory was held during the simamer of 1892. 

 In recognition of the active interest and generosity 

 of Mr. Hopkins, the station was named the Hop- 

 kins Seaside Laboratory. Funds for the purchase 

 of books and equipment were furnished by Mr. 

 Hopkins from time to time, and in 1893 he erected 

 a second building to provide more adequately for 

 the needs of the growing institution. 



During the first twenty-five years of its existence 

 the laboratory, while nominally a part of the 

 University, and freely using its library and 

 apparatus, was dependent for its upkeep and 

 extension chiefly upon student fees and private 

 gifts, the latter mainly through the constant 

 sympathetic interest of Mr. Hopkins. Despite 

 these limitations it offered its facilities to many 

 investigators and yearly to many students, and 

 contributed materially to the solution of biological 

 problems on the Pacific Coast. 



With the passing years it became increasingly 



