1912] Ritter: The Marine Biological Station of San Diego 191 
The outcome of these rather extensive castings-about was a 
firm conviction shared by all who had participated in recon- 
noitering that San Pedro Bay would be by nature a particu- 
larly favorable locus standi for almost any sort of marine biolog- 
ical activity. So the ground was prepared for a determined 
effort to create a permanent, well supported seaside station, pre- 
sumably to be located at San Pedro. This effort took definite 
shape in the summer of 1901. 
Among the circumstances that contributed largely to the 
resolution for a more definite and permanent attempt to estab- 
lish such a station, two only need be mentioned: Dr. C. A. 
Kofoid. who had come into the department of zoology of the 
University in 1900, had had much experience in marine and 
aquatie biology and so was an important addition to the working 
force available for such studies on the sea and its life as had 
been occupying us. The other circumstance was the coming to 
scientific manhood of two university students who had chosen 
to east in their lots as biological investigators. These men were 
Dr. F. W. Baneroft and Dr. H. B. Torrey. The strength 
of these three enthusiastic biologists, added to that previously 
available, made a total working force that promised much, not 
only for the main aim, scientific achievement, but also in assur- 
ance that with the united effort of such varied interest the 
securing of needed funds and facilities would be possible. 
Iv. SAN PEDRO, 1901-02. 
The form which the ideas of marine biological research and 
a marine station had taken by this time has been stated in 
various published utterances by the present writer and his c¢o- 
workers during the last decade; nevertheless these ideas are not 
sufficiently familiar either to professional biologists or to the 
general public to make their restatement superfluous. 
The report made to the President of the University of the 
efforts put forth during the summer of 1901 (Ritter, 1902a, 
p. 55) contains these words: ‘‘In view of the importance of the 
field and the meagerness of previous investigations in it, it 
seemed best to plan the summer’s work as though it were to be 
the beginning of a detailed biological survey of the coast of 
