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tigators. A few of these visitors remained several months at 
a time. The winter sessions were irregular and brief with a 
much smaller attendance, as the University vacation was too 
short to permit many to make the trip to La Jolla. Each sum- 
mer a series of free lectures on scientific subjects more or less 
popularized was given. For these not only our own staff but 
the visiting scientists were pressed into service. 
| This cheaply constructed laboratory was built in full confi- 
dence that it would have to serve only a few years before it 
would be replaced by a permanent, commodious one. The ques- 
tion consequently of a piece of land that should be the final 
resting place of the station after its long wanderings was taken 
up soon after the removal to La Jolla. For a time the little 
park already occupied seemed to be the most desirable. It 
was soon found, however, that while the city council was quite 
ready to grant the association certain privileges, it had no power 
to do so under the existing laws regarding park lands. This 
difficulty was overcome by securing from the state legislature an 
act enabling the city to grant the association the rights sought. 
By the time these were obtained questions had arisen as to the 
satisfactoriness of the location. Would there be room for such 
expansion as the institution might some time undergo? Would 
complications grow out of the relations between the station, whose 
primary purpose was scientific research, and the park, whose 
primary purpose was to serve as a recreation place for the 
public? Would the purity of the sea-water be more or less 
interfered with after a while by the sewage and other refuse of 
the growing population? Events and reflections made these 
questions more and more pressing as time went on, and the feel- 
ing grew that a more commodious, more unhampered site ought 
to be found if possible. 
VIL. THE FINAL LOCATION 
To Mr. E. W. Seripps belongs the eredit of proposing what 
at first flush seemed an extravagant if not an altogether imprac- 
ticable solution of the problem. The city of San Diego is a large 
landowner, its possessions being a heritage from the Mexican 
regime before California became a part of the United States. 
