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biological station is about one-quarter mile from Friday Harbor, 

 and is under the able management of Dr. T. C. Frye. The 

 camp is situated on a beautiful picturesque heavy-timbered 

 slope and is one of the most healthy places in the world. The 

 islands are a paradise for the botanist and student, as all forms 

 of marine life is here very abundant. Students and visitors are 

 accommodated from all over ; tent houses, cots, mattresses, and 

 other things are furnished, all but the bedding; and one needs 

 plenty of covering for the nights are cold. Good table board 

 can be had at nominal rates and visitors are required to pay a 

 small registration fee which entitles them to the use of the boats 

 and the week-end excursions on the dredge boat to places of 

 interest on the islands, and it is well worth the price. The ex- 

 cursions sometimes take two days with a camp out over night, 

 and they have bonfire chats and clambakes in the evenings. 

 Sometimes in the main channels the tide runs swift, but in the 

 bays and protected places and along shore it is as smooth as a 

 mill pond. Although there is a difference of 14 feet sometimes 

 in the tides yet it creeps in and out without a splash or a ripple. 

 This makes it fine for shore collecting on the rocky reefs. It 

 is the best I ever saw. The dredging was done by a small tug- 

 boat, a shrimp dredger, and Captain Burnham understood the 

 business thoroughly, having been 25 years on the Sound. He 

 always knew the character of the bottom in nearly every place. 

 We were allowed to go out on the dredge boat every day. At 

 this we were treated especially fine, there being nobody there 

 very much interested in shells, and often for two or three days 

 at a time when they had no special use for the dredge they 

 turned the boat over to us to go dredging where we pleased, an 

 opportunity we were not slow to grasp and make good use of. 

 And just imagine our having to sweep overboard bushels and 

 bushels of those beautiful Chlamys hericius Gld. and hindsii Cpr. 

 dredged in from 25 to 50 fathoms, not knowing what to do with 

 so many. ( Mrs. Oldroyd worked like a beaver all the time and 

 did not let many good things get away. The summer school 

 lasted six weeks and a pleasanter time we never spent. 



The following is a list of the species we collected during the 

 six weeks : 



