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proper and fitting caption of such a disser- 

 tation, it seems to me, would be ' ' What can 

 they not do ? " 



Fellow workers, companions in research, 

 I profoundly believe that research must 

 mean a different thing after we are through 

 with these passing days of frightfulness. 

 It was counted upon by Germany as her 

 greatest asset. It must prove to be Amer- 

 ica's bulwark of defense. It has been suffi- 

 cient in the past that your impulse has 

 been the search for truth for truth's sake. 

 It is inevitable that that impulse must now 

 be raised to an inspiration with a very 

 passion for truth for humanity's sake. As 

 you have worked unwittingly, but none the 

 less effectively for preparedness, so may it 

 be your part to work unremittingly and 

 with equal effectiveness towards the build- 

 ing again of the temples of peace, to turn- 

 ing the dark clouds inside out and contrib- 

 uting to the greater successes of a better 

 day. S. W. Paek 



Univbesity op Illinois 



THE NEW HOPKINS MARINE STATION 

 OF STANFORD UNIVERSITY 



The project of the development of a marine 

 biological laboratory in connection with Le- 

 land Stanford Junior University owes to its 

 origin to Professor Charles Henry Gilbert and 

 Professor Oliver Peebles Jenkins. Eecogniz- 

 ing- the value and importance of such a foun- 

 dation, they set actively to work during the 

 first year (1891) of the University to secure 

 its realization. After a careful examination 

 of various sites along the coast, Pacific Grove, 

 upon the southern side of Monterey Bay, was 

 selected as combining the naost desirable 

 features. Through the generous cooperation 

 of the Pacific Improvement Company a suit- 

 able site and a sum of money sufficient to 

 erect the first building was donated. A plain 

 two-story frame structure, twenty-five by sixty 

 feet in ground dimensions was erected on Point 

 Anion, a low rocky headland, and the fijst 



session of the new laboratory was held during 

 the summer of 1892. In recognition of the 

 active interest and liberality of Mr. Timothy 

 Hopkins the station was named the Hopkins 

 Seaside Laboratory. Funds for the purchase 

 of books and equipment were provided by him 

 from time to time, and in the following year 

 he erected a second building. The two build- 

 ings contained four general laboratories, a 

 lecture room, seventeen private rooms, and a 

 large concrete basement for special physiolog- 

 ical work. The salt-water piping for the 

 aquaria in the second building was constructed 

 of pure block tin throughout, with hard-rub- 

 ber stopcocks. 



During the first twenty-five years of its ex- 

 istence the laboratory while nominally a part 

 of the imiversity and freely using its library 

 and apparatus, was dependent for its upkeep 

 and extension chiefly upon student fees and 

 private gifts, the latter mainly through the 

 constant sympathetic interest of Mr. Hopkins. 

 Despite these limitations it offered its facilities 

 to many investigators and students during 

 that period, and contributed materially to the 

 solution of biological problems on the Pacific 

 coast. 



With the passing years it became increas- 

 ingly evident that the site upon Point Aulon 

 was inadequate to the needs of the laboratory. 

 In 1916, through the efforts of President Wil- 

 bur and the Board of Trustees, a new location 

 was secured nearly five acres in extent and 

 comprising the main portion of Almeja or 

 Mussel Point, situated a half mile eastward of 

 the old site. This point will be recalled by 

 former visitors to the Seaside Laboratory as 

 that upon which the fishermen of the pictur- 

 esque " Chinatown " used to di-y their large 

 catch of squids. Chinato^vn disappeared in a 

 blaze about fourteen years ago, and was never 

 rebuilt. The new situation insures complete 

 control of the coast line of the jwint, including 

 an excellent sheltered landing place and har- 

 bor for boats of considerable size (used in 

 the old days by Chinese fishermen). 



Close to this cove the first building of the 

 new station was erected during 1917. It is 

 of reinforced concrete construction approxi- 



