630 THE AMERICAN NATURALIST. [VoL. XXXIII. 
Here, on a cliff by the water's edge, are the laboratory 
buildings. They are two two-story buildings, one sixty feet 
long by twenty feet wide, the other forty by twenty-six 
feet. Two large salt-water tanks stand near by. Within, the 
space is divided into large and small laboratories, rooms for 
investigators, lecture room, photographic dark room, aquaria, 
concreted basement rooms, etc. The collecting equipment 
comprises the necessary dredges and nets, and instruments for 
sounding and for taking below surface temperatures. The 
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Tue HOPKINS SEASIDE LABORATORY. 
laboratory does not own a launch, a sailboat and rowboat having 
proved, so far, sufficient for the needs of the collectors. The 
collecting of fishes is chiefly done by Chinese fishermen, of 
whom a villageful lives but half a mile from the laboratory. 
In addition to a fauna more or less peculiar to itself, the 
Bay of Monterey, being a middle point between the north and 
south zones of the Pacific coast, finds itself possessed of a 
number of sub-tropical and sub-boreal types peculiar to the 
two regions. The Pacific coast of the United States has but 
few bays; it is a straight coast line bathed by the great swell 
of the open ocean, In the aggregate the east coast, with its 
intricate coast line, will present a greater abundance of bay- 
