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TT \\ l\(", 11(1 ;u-(|naiiil;incc with tin- nu'inhfi-sliii) of the- !.'>•> 

 -^ ^ Aiii^X'k's Miiior l')()'it dnl). I ;iiii niiawaiH' wlu'llu'i' llic 

 part\- which gathered aniund the table in it> a^'-eiiihl\ hall on the 

 morning of Au.^ust 8. 1917, was strang-e to it or not. However 

 that mav be. the fact is that when Professor L'lrey stood before 

 US and, with charts and ex]:>lanations. made clear the scope of 

 the work for the stndy of the hydrograiihy and the marine tlora 

 and fauna of the Pacific waters of our coast, conducted by him 

 as Director of the \''enice Marine Biological Station of the Uni- 

 versity of vSouthern California, he spoke to an interested and 

 interesting audience. 



The Directors of the Southern California Academy of 

 Sciences and a few^ friends had been invited for a trip upon the 

 launch Anton Dohrn. that they might see for tliemselves how 

 the work, described in the Academy P.nllctin for January, 1917, 

 was carried on. 



Including the said Directors, the guests were Arthur R. 

 Maas. Professor of Pharmacy of the University of Southern 

 California. W. C. ^fusgrave, Charles M. Booth, Dr. and ^Mrs. 

 A. F. Speicher and their daughter, ?^liss Florence Speicher, Mr. 

 and ^Irs. C. B. Dudderar and Hon. Grant Jaclcson, Judge of the 

 Superior Court. The men represented Education, Science, Ar- 

 chitecture, Jurisprudence and the Commercial world in its vari- 

 ous lines, but upon this occasion they conducted themselves 

 more like a crowd of boys upon a holiday, having left their 

 solemnity in Los Angeles. The ladies proved themselves accus- 

 tomed sailors and expert providers for hungry men. One of the 

 gentlemen shamelessly admitted that he had been a pirate on the 

 Florida coast and he was the only one who claimed sea expe- 

 rience. 



The literary-technical information having been imparted, 

 with the call '"AH aboard," Prof. Ulrey and his charming wife 

 conducted us across the gang-plank and the Anton Dohrn put 

 to sea. 



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