EDITORIAL 



SINCE the publication of our Bulletin for January, 1917, 

 the work of Professor A. B. Ulrey, head of the Depart- 

 ment of Biology and director of the Venice Marine Biological 

 Station of the University of Southern California, has attracted 

 a very marked attention, not only from departments and indi- 

 viduals on the Pacific Coast, but from Scientific Bodies gener- 

 ally throughout the United States. 



Many lettters have been received asking for further infor- 

 mation, particularly relating to the fisheries interests and the 

 quantity and quality of our sea-food products. 



In view of the food proposition now confronting our country, 

 to which, with Canada and the Argentine, the eyes of the 

 whole world are now most anxiously turned, the life-support- 

 ing products of the ocean have become one of the most valu- 

 able factors for an emphatic, successful and permanent termi- 

 nation of the war against autocracy, barbarity and despotism. 



The waters of the Pacific Coast teem with untold food 

 wealth, both animal and vegetable, and the years of most 

 devoted study and the profound and practical investigation of 

 this department of the Sciences have been such an open sesame 

 to the acquaintance of Professor Ulrey with the secrets of the 

 deep, that there are but a very few in this environment who 

 stand with him in the frant ranks of marine biological inter- 

 preters. 



The matter has been placed before the professor with a 

 most urgent appeal that extra muros of his lecture rostrum, 



