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without regret, partly because of the growing absorption of the 
instructors in their investigations; partly because of relief from 
the necessity of depending on students’ fees for paying the 
expenses of the investigators; and partly from the conviction 
that, all things considered, instruction was of less moment than 
investigation. 
On the side of material support a matter of utmost import- 
ance in connection with the removal to San Diego was the keen, 
intelligent, and financially lberal interest taken in the station 
from the outset by Miss Ellen B. Scripps and Mr. E. W. Seripps. 
Although a considerable number of citizens of San Diego con- 
tributed well during the first two years, these two persons were 
the chief givers and soon became the exclusive patrons so far as 
money gifts were concerned. 
In planning the laboratory at Coronado some of the serious 
difficulties that had been encountered at San Pedro soon came 
in sight. The location on the bay side of the long narrow sand- 
spit that separates San Diego from the ocean was admirable in 
many ways. Boats could be landed and kept with great ease 
and safety; water for laboratory use could be dipped up and 
carried into the building so readily as to make a pump almost 
superfluous; and various species of marine organisms could be 
collected fresh, vigorous, and in quantity at our very door. But 
the water of the bay and so the organisms inhabiting it were 
very different from the water and the organisms of the open 
ocean; and the safe and easy landing was a good two hours’ 
run with a motor-boat from the ocean. The more the problems 
of the biology of the ocean proper grew in clearness of definition 
and in interest, the more serious were seen to be the disadvan- 
tages of such a location. Consequently early in the Coronado 
period the idea of abandoning the attempt to find a satisfactory 
inside location and of turning to some point on the open coast 
where oceanic conditions prevail as near shore as possible began 
to be considered. 
VI. LA JOLLA (VILLAGE), 1905-09 
After studying the coast as carefully as possible, La Jolla, 
a suburb of San Diego situated on a point fifteen miles to the 
north, was selected as on the whole the most advantageous place. 
