1912] Ritter: The Marine Biological Station of San Diego 163 
building. To meet the needs Miss Scripps decided early in 1909 
to so endow the station that its affairs could have most of if not 
the whole time and energy of the scientific director. Accord- 
ingly Dr. Ritter took up his residence at La Jolla on June 1, 
1909, the arrangement between the Biological Association and 
the University being that he return to Berkeley each year to 
give one or more brief, concentrated courses of instruction, the 
station paying two-thirds and the University one-third of his 
salary. 
A supply of fresh water being an indispensable prerequisite 
to development of any kind on the new possessions, the city was 
again appealed to and readily undertook to lay a four-inch pipe 
from La Jolla to the building site. Construction of the first 
building began in the early summer of 1909 and was so far 
completed during the next twelve months that soon after the 
director’s return in June, 1910, from his first year’s engagement 
at the University under the new regime, it could be occupied. 
As a makeshift settlement of the domestic problem involved in 
the remoteness of the laboratory from the village, it was decided 
that the director’s family should domicile itself for the present 
on the second floor of the laboratory building, the first floor 
furnishing ample space for the scientific work then being done, 
and the director’s wife being equal to the task of transforming 
the laboratory rooms into quarters not only possible but com- 
fortable for human habitation. So far as the transportation 
problem was settled, it was settled by an automobile for the 
director, bicycles for those of the staff who must still live in 
the village, and two good feet for every one who upon occasion 
should by choice revert to nature’s first solution of the problem 
of locomotion for man. 
VIII. WORK AT SEA 
For the sake of consecutiveness in narration nothing has been 
said about the portion of the station that lives at sea since note 
was made of the earlier provision for this at the beginning of 
the San Diego period. During the summer of 1904 Mr. E. W. 
Seripps had placed his pleasure yacht ‘‘Loma’’ at the service 
of the station, and in the fall of the same year he gave the vessel 
