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veny, and Mr. Jacob Baruch of Los Angeles. The chief contrib- 
utors of money here were: Mr. Jacob Baruch, Mrs. Phoebe A. 
Hearst, Mr. J. A. Graves, Mr. H. W. O’Melveny, Mr. Wm. G. 
Kerchoff, Mr. Wm. R. Rowland, Mr. Van Nuys, The Los Angeles 
Terminal Railroad, Mrs. Margaret Fette, Mr. J. H. Shankland, 
Mr. John E. Plater, and Mr. Charles M. Wright. 
By far the largest givers to the station since its removal to 
San Diego have been Mr. E. W. Seripps, Miramar; Miss Ellen B. 
Scripps, La Jolla, and Mr. H. H. Peters, San Diego. In addition, 
the following have contributed substantially: Mr. Wm. Clayton, 
for the Coronado Beach Company; Mrs. F. L. Keating, Mr. 
Henry W. Putnam, Mr. G. W. Marston, and Hon. U. 8. Grant. 
10.—Remarks on the Present Status of Marine Biology in General. 
Situated as our station is, on a biologically almost unknown 
part of a little known ocean, our first concern, chronologically, 
must be with local conditions and problems. The meagerness of 
knowledge, not only of the fauna and flora, but also of the ocean- 
ography of the eastern part of the North Pacific can hardly be 
realized except by the few specialists whose studies have led 
them into immediate contact with it. Sir John Murray, the 
acknowledged prince of oceanographers, when the science is 
regarded as pertaining to the earth as a whole, has recently 
pointed out the urgent need of further exploration of the Pacific 
from about 150° W. Lone. to the American coast. Our informa- 
tion about the most general facts concerning the currents, for 
instance, is wholly inadequate to constitute a foundation for 
investigations on distribution of organisms. And as to zoology, 
there are whole groups of prime importance for any of the wider 
questions of marine biology, like the dinoflagellata, the radio- 
laria, and the chaetognatha, about which there is hardly a 
recorded observation. Even the better studied groups, like the 
fishes, the mollusks, and the crustaceans, when ecologically re- 
garded have been hardly more than glanced at. 
But, hemmed in as we are and for a long time must be by 
the limitations of meager local knowledge, we yet venture to look 
somewhat beyond these limits to see where the general idea consti- 
tuting the underpinning of our enterprise stands with reference 
— “cela 
