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the several colleges and normal and high schools of California, 
and for seaside work in the Timothy Hopkins Laboratory at 
Pacific Grove, it seemed that research ought to have the prior if 
not exclusive right, for it soon became apparent that with the 
facilities available or likely to be available any well carried out 
effort at elementary teaching must seriously interfere with re- 
search. Hence, after a few of the earlier summers, all thought 
of formal classes for beginners was put aside for the time being. 
Two main considerations led gradually to the conviction that 
fairly definitely laid out investigations by the station, by team- 
work as one might say, to be prosecuted by those naturalists 
more or less regularly and permanently connected with the 
enterprise, would be on the whole both more profitable and more 
practicable than an effort to develop a laboratory of general 
rendezvous for investigators of all sorts of interests and from 
all quarters. The two considerations were, first, the vast scope 
and possibilities in faunistie researches if only “‘faunistic’’ were 
to be taken in a broad sense, and the impossibility of doimg much 
at such researches without codrdinated and continuous effort. 
The second consideration lay in the remoteness of the Pacific 
Coast from the main centers of scientific activity of the world. 
The large cost in both time and money of reaching our shores 
would be prohibitive for the majority of investigators. The 
already established seaside laboratories of Europe and the 
Atlantic Coast of America, offering their splendid facilities, 
must for years to come be chiefly sought by students. The 
wisest course seemed to be to make a virtue of our disadvan- 
tages as far as possible: to concentrate our small energies and 
funds upon what it seemed might be done rather well by working 
in our own way, instead of dissipating them on what appeared 
highly probable we should not be able to do at all well. 
So again by a process of natural selection and elimination 
the idea gained ground of a biological survey prosecuted as 
systematically, as continuously, as protractedly and as broadly, 
as facilities would permit. The natural and inevitable expan- 
siveness of such an undertaking will be seen by any one who has 
even a meager acquaintance with the phenomena to be investi- 
eated and the methods that must be employed. The farther one 
