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it may be confidently held that every dollar put into the upbuild- 
ing of the institution as an instrument for scientific research and 
general enlightenment may be made to count also as investment 
for enlarging the income applicable to the scientific work. 
Il. BUILDINGS 
The first permanent building, known as the George H. 
Seripps Memorial Building (pl. 18, fig. 1), situated sixty feet 
from the edge of a fifteen-foot sea-cliff, is a plain rectangular 
two-story structure of reinforced concrete, 26 feet high, 75 
feet long and 50 feet wide. Its long axis is perpendicular to 
the water front and runs east and west. The flat, parapeted roof 
carries two large iron-framed skylights, one over the corridor, 
the other over the museum and lecture room. The only other 
buildings so far erected are a tank-house located about twenty- 
five feet north of the northwest corner of the laboratory, and 
a small frame building (20 by 30 feet) which serves in part as 
a store-room for miscellaneous bulky material, and in part for 
housing an automobile. 
On the ground floor of the laboratory is a corridor 12 feet 
wide running from the east to the west entrance. Along the 
north side of this corridor are six rooms (12 by 17 feet each) for 
investigators. These rooms occupy the entire length of the 
building. South of the corridor is an aquarium room (17 by 37 
feet) occupying the southwest corner; a dark-room (8 by 8 feet) 
which opens from the east end of the aquarium room; a shop 
(12 by 8 feet) also opening from the east end of the aquarium 
room as well as from the corridor and men’s toilet; a store-room 
for reagents and glassware (15 by 16 feet); the janitor’s room 
(9 by 10 feet) occupying the southeast corner, and between this 
and the east entrance a lavatory for women. Ten feet west of 
the east entrance concrete stairs ascend from the lower corridor 
to the second floor leading directly into another corridor (12 by 
37 feet), along the north side of which are three investigators’ 
rooms exactly similar to those of the ground floor. At the west 
end of this corridor is a museum and lecture room (32 by 37 
feet), along the north side of which are three more investigators’ 
rooms. South of the corridor and occupying the southeast corner 
