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The means for our Seaside Laboratory of Natural History 



Hopkxns 2^ Pacific Grove on Monterey Bay, now the Hopkins 

 staiion Marine Station, planned along the lines of Anton 

 Dohrn's famous zoological station at Naples. Under 

 its roof, in addition to the regular summer class work 

 in Biology, a number of important researches have 

 been carried on by members of the Stanford staff and 

 by naturalists from other institutions. Among the 

 latter I may mention Jacques Loeb, then of the Uni- 

 versity of California, now of the Rockefeller Insti- 

 tute; Bashford Dean, Thomas Hunt Morgan, A. H. 

 Sturtevant, all three from Columbia; Edwin Grant 

 Conklin of Princeton; C. B. Bridges, F. R. Lillie, 

 and H. H. Newman of Chicago; William F. Allen 

 of Oregon; Ida H. Hyde of Kansas; Franz 

 Doflein of Freiberg; O. L. Mohr of Christiania; and 

 Tage Skogsberg of Upsala. Many other prominent 

 investigators have visited the station for periods of 

 varying length, but without undertaking continuous 

 research. Recently the station was removed from its 

 original site to Punta Alones (midway between the 

 towns of Monterey and Pacific Grove), where it is 

 now housed in a commodious concrete building. At 

 the same time Dr. Walter K. Fisher, Stanford 'oi, 

 an eminent authority on starfishes and their kindred, 

 was made resident director. 



Mr. Hopkins' relation to the laboratory originally 

 established through his generosity gave him a spe- 

 cial interest in the Naples Station. He therefore 

 availed himself of an early opportunity to inspect 

 the latter. As to this he tells the following interesting 

 story in a personal letter: 



Upon arrival I found the Station, a plain two-story building, 

 situated in a beautiful city park upon the shore of the Bay of 



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