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recreation. But for financial difficulties that came on with the 
widespread business collapse of 1893, and the conclusion to which 
we on the scientific side were driven that an effective biological 
station at any point near the Golden Gate would be impracticable, 
it is highly probable that Mr. Sutro would have become a liberal 
patron of marine biology and oceanie exploration. 
III. EXPEDITIONS, 1894-1900 
Owing partly to the fact that the person who had thus far 
been responsible for directing the seaside work was absent in 
Europe during the summers of 1894 and 1895, the knock-down 
laboratory was not erected in those years. A significant col- 
lecting and reconnoitering expedition on the coast north of San 
Francisco was, however, made in 1894. The party constituting 
the expedition were Mr. 8S. J. Holmes, a recent graduate from 
the University and an assistant in zoology; Mr. Frank Baneroft 
and Mr. E. W. Horn, advanced undergraduate students. 
Following up the intimations received by the glance at San 
Pedro Bay and vicinity while en route to Avalon in 1893, that 
this was an especially favorable spot for a marine laboratory, 
a party from the University spent several weeks there during 
the summer of 1895. Dr. H. P. Johnson was in charge. A 
cottage and a tent on Timm’s Point in San Pedro Bay consti- 
tuted the laboratory-dormitory facilities. This season’s exper- 
ience was of special significance in that it greatly strengthened 
the belhef in the natural advantages of this region for a marine 
station. 
Between 1896 and 1901 no organized parties were formed 
for marine work nor was a seaside laboratory maintained. How- 
ever, numerous collecting excursions were made from time to 
time by various members of the department to many points on 
the coast, ranging from San Diego at the south to the Shumagin 
Islands, Alaska, at the north. The observations by the writer 
while a member of the Harriman Alaska Expedition in the 
summer of 1899 were of special service toward a general clari- 
fication of views regarding points on the Pacifie Coast of North 
America favorable for the location of marine stations concerned 
with the various aspects of biology and oceanography. 
