MARINE SCIENCE 73 
The Cuairman. Doctor, I suppose there is a good reason for it, but 
wouldn’t there be some reason for the school of medicine to have a 
direct interest in this matter ? 
Dr. Fernatp. They are actually represented here. 
The Cuarrman. In zoology ? 
Dr. Frrnaup. As a specific department, the department of anatomy, 
and I should have mentioned biochemistry, and microbiology, also a 
division of the medical school. 
I am happy to use the laboratories as an illustration of the role 
such smaller stations have and can play in the development of ma- 
rine sciences. 
The original laboratory, known as the Puget Sound Marine Biolog- 
ical Station, was established as a permanent installation in 1904 
through the efforts of two professors of biology, Dr. T. C. Frye, 
botany, and Prof. Trevor Kincaid, zoology. 
The CHairman. You can see, Doctor, how old the chairman is get- 
ting. Professor Kincaid was one of my teachers at the university. 
Dr. Frrnaxp. Instruction in marine biology was offered and sum- 
mer research activities centered in the main around taxonomic and 
field studies of local marine fauna and flora. Students and investi- 
gators came from various parts of this country and abroad, and many 
notable contributions to the knowledge of marine forms were made 
and published in the serial publications of the Puget Sound Marine 
Biological Station. The laboratories were relocated in 1922 on a 484- 
acre site ceded to the university by the Federal Government. As in- 
terest in physical and chemical oceanography developed at the uni- 
versity, the station was for a time organized as a part of the division 
of oceanography. Instruction and research were extended into the 
areas of physical and chemical oceanography, fisheries, biology, micro- 
biology, and meteorology. Thus a number of scientific disciplines 
with interest in problems related to the marine environment have 
continuing activities at this laboratory. In the informal atmosphere 
of a small marine laboratory there is a real value in the association 
and exchange of ideas between graduate students and advanced 
investigators interested in different aspects of marine sciences. 
The Friday Harbor Laboratories was one of the first university 
affiliated marine stations to be established in the United States. There 
are over 30 today. Like many of these it has derived its major sup- 
port over the years by way of the regular university budgetary chan- 
nels. While its support has been derived in large measure from the 
university, it has in no sense been a closed laboratory. Students and 
advanced investigators from all over the United States and indeed 
from many countries abroad, have been made welcome at these facili- 
ties. As an example of the breadth of its influence on graduate stu- 
dent training, 19 different educational institutions were represented 
in the group and over half of the students were from universities 
other than Washington. This is speaking of last summer specifically. 
It should be indicated that approximately 60 percent of the students 
at the laboratories from the University of Washington are non- 
residents. 
Senator Scuorpren. Doctor, are they taking what would be desig- 
nated as postgraduate work in this science? 
