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tion for brief periods, with most of the work done elsewhere, 
would suffice. So the chief and more permanent members could 
as well as not be persons in regular positions and with regular 
incomes in other institutions. Furthermore, the investigations 
are of such a nature that students in the stage of advancement 
of candidacy for the doctor’s degree in a University could, by 
working under the guidance of those more experienced, be of 
much service. 
8.—Present Status, as to Ways and Means. 
An organization incorporated under the laws of Cali- 
fornia, known as the Marine Biological Association of San Diego, 
is at present the structural foundation upon which the survey 
rests: but the Association is prospectively a department of the 
University of California. Provision is made in the articles of 
incorporation that under specified conditions and at the expiration 
of a certain period, all the holdings and undertakings of the Asso- 
ciation shall pass automatically and wholly into the hands and 
under the control of the Board of Regents of the University. 
In the meantime, the University’s part in the undertaking 
consists in a measure of codperation through a committee of 
Regents, with the Managing Board of the Association, in the 
conduct of the business affairs of the survey ; in the fact that the 
Director and most of the Scientific Staff are members of the Uni- 
versity Faculty; in the granting to the Association permission 
to take to the Station each year a considerable amount of labora- 
tory equipment and numerous library books; and finally, in 
publishing at its own expense the results of the investigations. 
The assets of the Association at present are: a laboratory 
building at La Jolla, neither large nor of elaborate construction, 
but serviceable for most of the work now in progress; a schooner 
of nineteen tons register, with auxiliary power, and fitted with 
hoisting engine and gear; collecting apparatus; the nucleus of a 
library; and a definite guaranteed income for three years from 
July 1, 1904. 
The present officers of the Association are: 
H. H. Peters, President. 
Dr. Fred Baker, Vice-president. 
