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D. HISTORICAL SKETCH 
I. PACIFIC GROVE, 1892 
In the spring of 1892 a structure 16 x 24 feet, partly of wood 
and partly of canvas, and constructed with a view to being taken 
to pieces and moved about, was built for use as a seaside labor- 
atory at Pacifie Grove. The requisite funds, about $200, were 
provided by the University, the department of zoology being 
permitted to expend the amount from its annual budget. This 
itinerant laboratory was set up for the summer vacation, the 
site selected being a small cove near the since departed China- 
town. The little apparatus provided, microscopes, glassware, 
ete., were borrowed from the University. All the water used, 
salt and fresh, was carried to the laboratory in buckets by hand. 
The laboratory party consisted of about a dozen persons, 
mostly students and teachers but partly recreation seekers. 
The first building of the Timothy Hopkins Laboratory be- 
longing to Leland Stanford Junior University was erected and 
occupied for the first time during the same summer, and along- 
side that ample, well appointed laboratory our little tent-house 
made a sorry spectacle. Nothing on record shows any notable 
discoveries made that year, though a not inconsiderable amount 
of general collecting was done, both of information and speci- 
mens. 
Il. SANTA CATALINA ISLAND, 1893 
A summer’s work at Pacifie Grove, supplemented by numer- 
ous collecting and observation trips to various points on the 
coast both south and north of the Golden Gate, having given 
us a glimpse of biological conditions on this portion of the sea- 
shore, a desire to see more of the southern coast was aroused. 
Accordingly for the summer of 1893 the piecemeal laboratory 
found itself re-erected on the shore of Avalon Bay, Santa Cata- 
lina Island. The biologically inclined portion of the company 
consisted chiefly of undergraduate students from the University, 
and general familiarity with sea-animals and the conditions 
