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Oceanography 1951 



In addition to its research activities the 

 Institution is the principal world center for 

 training oceanographers. In 1949-1950 over 

 50 graduate students were registered in the 

 Department of Oceanography, and eight 

 others were working on theses sponsored 

 by other departments of the University. 

 Within the last few years students from 

 France, Holland, Argentina, Peru, Egypt, 

 China, South Africa, Canada, and the 

 Philippines have taken advanced degrees in 

 oceanography or related sciences at the 

 Institution. The Institution uses a portion of 

 its budget each year to support visiting sci- 

 entists from other universities in the United 

 States and abroad. 



Longer papers resulting from the Insti- 

 tution's research are published by the Uni- 

 versity of California press, chiefly in the 

 Bulletin of the Scripps Institution of Ocean- 

 ography, Technical Series. Most reports, 

 however, are published in scientific jour- 

 nals. Reprints of these are bound annually 

 in a volume of Contributions from the 

 Scripps Institution of Oceanography and 

 distributed to libraries and research insti- 

 tutions throughout the world. There were 

 434 contributions from 1936 to the end of 

 1949. 



THE BERMUDA BIOLOGICAL STATION 

 FOR RESEARCH, INC. 



The Bermuda Biological Station for Re- 

 search was founded in 1903 and incor- 

 porated in the State of New York in 1926. 

 The Trustees, however, are from Canada, 

 Bermuda, England, and the United States. 

 The annual income is about $35,000, of 

 which some $5,000 is derived from endow- 

 ment by the Rockefeller Foundation, 

 $11,200 from annual grants by the Bermuda 

 Government for maintenance and fisheries 

 research, and the remainder from rents, 

 fees, and other sources. 



Living and working facilities are pro- 

 vided for a small permanent staff and for 

 visiting investigators. The Station serves as 

 an oceanic base for the Woods Hole Ocean- 

 ographic Institution and at times it serves 

 as the official marine laboratory of the 

 Bermuda Government. Present facilities 



permit most types of research in inshore 

 waters. Efforts are being made to secure 

 a sea-going vessel and additional funds for 

 the study of the productivity of open ocean 

 waters, the physiology of deep sea forms, 

 and the circulation of the North Atlantic. 



OCEANOGRAPHIC LABORATORIES OF 



THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON 



Partly as a result of the impetus received 

 from the Committee on Oceonagraphy of 

 the National Academy of Sciences, the 

 Oceanographic Laboratories of the Univer- 

 sity of Washington were founded in 1930. 

 With the aid of funds from the Rockefeller 

 Foundation, a three-story laboratory was 

 built in Seattle, and a small research vessel 

 was acquired. The parent organization was 

 the Puget Sound Biological Station, founded 

 in 1906 at Friday Harbor by Professors Kin- 

 caid and Frye of the University of Wash- 

 ington. This station was expanded and 

 rebuilt in 1926 on a 500-acre tract near 

 Friday Harbor. It consists of six one-story 

 laboratory buildings, living accommoda- 

 tions for 150 people, a machine shop, boat 

 house, and pier. 



The permanent scientific staff of the 

 Oceanographic Laboratories is made up 

 chiefly of faculty members from other de- 

 partments of the University of Washington, 

 including those of chemistry, biochemistry, 

 physics, zoology, botany, geology, meteor- 

 ology, fisheries, and microbiology. Three 

 faculty members have recently been ap- 

 pointed directly to the staff of the Labo- 

 ratories without other responsibilities in 

 the University. The remainder of the staff 

 consists of four professional scientists and 

 about twenty technical and administrative 

 personnel including twelve to fifteen part- 

 time graduate assistants. 



At the present time the University is 

 establishing a Department of Oceanogra- 

 phy which will present courses of instruc- 

 tion at the undergraduate and graduate 

 level leading to degrees in oceanography. 



The Laboratories were closed during the 

 war and its vessel sold. Since then field 

 work has been dependent on small char- 

 tered vessels and on a boat belonging to 



