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AMERICAN NATURALIST 
VoL, XXXITI. August, 1899. No. 392. 
THE HOPKINS SEASIDE LABORATORY. 
VERNON L. KELLOGG. 
THE Leland Stanford Junior University was formally opened 
to students Oct. 1, 1891. It is situated on the great Palo 
Alto estate, whose eight thousand acres carry this unusual 
college yard from the salt marshes of San Francisco Bay across 
the intervening valley and over the lesser hills to the foot of 
the climax of the Santa Cruz Mountains. Inthe summer recess 
after the first college year, Stanford had its marine laboratory 
ready for habitancy. A friend of the university, Mr. Timothy 
Hopkins, whose practical friendship has been especially enjoyed 
by the biological departments of the university, provided the 
money for building and equipping the laboratory, which, in 
honor of the founder, is officially named ‘‘ The Hopkins Sea- 
side Laboratory of the Leland Stanford Junior University.” 
The location chosen for the laboratory by the directors, Pro- 
fessors Jenkins and Gilbert, is the bay side of the promontory, 
Point Pinos, which is the southern limiting point of the Bay of 
Monterey. The bay is a great, shallow indentation of the coast 
line, which offers little protection from the sweep of the open 
ocean except in its southern part. 
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