1912] Ritter: The Marine Biological Station of San Diego — 157 
Mr. Julius Wangenheim, treasurer; Professor William E. Ritter, 
scientific director; and Miss E. B. Seripps and Mr. E. W. 
Seripps, members of the board of directors. With the excep- 
tion of the first president and secretary, who soon moved from 
San Diego, the personnel of the board of directors has remained 
the same, with Mr. F. W. Kelsey and Mr. W. C. Crandall as 
secretaries, and Mr. H. L. Titus as vice-president and counsel, 
Dr. Baker having been president since the second year. 
The experiences of 1901 had shown that with such a limited 
boat equipment bottom and plankton work could not be well 
combined, and that on the whole collections of the swimming 
and floating organisms could be made more efficiently and no 
less profitably from the scientific standpoint. But since the 
entire realm was practically virgin and it was important that 
the little we could do should be made to produce as much as 
possible, it seemed best that plankton studies should mainly 
occupy us for the time being. It was soon seen, though in a 
rather shadowy way, how absorbing and indefinitely expansive 
the problems of this side of marine biology would become. Two 
summer and two winter periods of telling work were done from 
Coronado as the base of operations. 
The importance of extending the work, particularly the col- 
lecting over a larger portion of the year, was coming to be more 
and more clearly seen. This desideratum was partially met in 
1904 by arranging with Mr. Cabral, the fisherman-collector, to 
run his own fishing-boat, the ‘‘St. Joseph,’’ three days a week 
during the entire summer period and at intervals during the 
remainder of the year; and by creating the position of Resident 
Naturalist, i.e., a post at the laboratory to be continuously held 
by a trained biologist. The first incumbent of the position was 
Mr. B. M. Davis, who was willing to accept it on the small salary 
that could be paid with the consideration that half his time 
might be devoted to his own studies. Mr. Davis was the nat- 
uralist for one year only, his ineumbeney terminating with regret 
on both sides from his having been called to a position of greater 
responsibility and compensation. 
No formal courses of instruction were offered after the San 
Pedro period. This aspect of the enterprise was abandoned, not 
