1912] Ritter: The Marine Biological Station of San Diego — 149 
under which they live rather than rigorous special researches 
was the scientific fruitage of the summer’s undertaking. 
From the experiences of this year two important advances 
were made toward a decision as to what portion of the coast 
would be best for the location of a permanent laboratory: That 
San Francisco Bay and the outside places immediately adjacent 
to it which had been considered as possibilities would better be 
abandoned; and that some point in southern California south 
of Santa Barbara, probably San Pedro as it then appeared, 
presented on the whole more natural attractions to the student 
of marine organisms than any other portion of the California 
coast. The counsel of Professor E. B. Wilson of Columbia 
University, who had been asked by the University of California 
to come to the Pacific Coast in the interest of the marine work, 
was greatly influential toward these conclusions. Concerning 
the natural factors that entered into the final determination of 
the site problem I speak more in detail a little later. 
It is pleasant to recall the lively interest taken by several 
persons besides those participating in the work itself during 
these first years. President Martin Kellogg was sympathetic 
and ready to extend such help from the University, financial and 
other, as conditions would permit. Professor Joseph LeConte, 
under whose official headship matters zoological in the Univer- 
sity then rested, was ever enthusiastically desirous of seeing a 
seaside laboratory strongly and permanently established, and to 
this end never failed to use his influence when occasion offered. 
Perhaps the most earnest, aggressive worker in the cause out- 
side of those professionally entangled was Mr. Arthur Rodgers, 
an alumnus of the University and for many years one of its 
most devoted and efficient Regents. Nor would it do to leave 
unmentioned the great interest taken by Mr. Adolph Sutro of 
San Francisco in the establishment of a marine laboratory and 
aquarium in connection with his extensive developments at the 
famous Sutro Heights just outside the Golden Gate. Being a 
man of uncommon intelligence and breadth of interests, though 
in no sense a biologist, he was keenly alive to the scientific sig- 
nificance of researches in marine biology and to the possibilities 
of a marine aquarium as a source of public enlightenment and 
