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I. THE DUTIES TO THE PUBLIC OF RESEARCH 
INSTITUTIONS IN PURE SCIENCE 
The reader will have recognized that although the station has 
up to the present devoted itself almost exclusively to research, 
an undoubted tendeney has manifested itself to depart from this 
straight and narrow way. Elementary instruction was given to 
young people several summers; an aquarium and museum, open 
to the public free of charge, were maintained a number of years; 
from time to time popular lectures and demonstrations have been 
eiven by the investigators connected with the laboratory ; recently 
relations have been entered into with the California State Game 
and Fish Commission and with the United States Bureau of Soils 
for the investigation of industrial problems pertaining to the sea; 
and in various less obvious ways efforts have been made to be of 
service outside the realm of pure science. 
It seems desirable to place on record more fully than has 
hitherto been done the ideas held by the present scientific director 
touching the duties to the publie of institutions for research in 
science generally and of this station particularly. 
As a point of departure for what is to be said we take the 
assertion that science ‘‘for its own sake’’ as frequently under- 
stood is a false and unrealizable ideal. Science ‘‘for its own 
”? wealth or anything else ‘“‘for its 
sake,’’ art ‘‘for its own sake, 
own sake,’’ if held without fundamental qualification, bears the 
germs of its own degradation if not of its death. Science can 
no more live ‘‘to itself alone’’ than ean a human being. The 
fallacy prevalent here is in reasoning that because science and 
because art each has an exalted intrinsic nature and worth, it 
therefore has a nature and worth quite apart from its relation 
to other things and to men. Somehow it seems difficult to grasp 
the truth that the worth of science is in deepest essence partly 
intrinsic or resident and partly extrinsic and relative. However, 
that its essential worth is thus two-fold becomes obvious upon 
reflection. 
On the one hand science has a nature of its very own. It is 
