LIFE HIS TRY OF THE S’^INY LOBSTER. 
Under the auspices of the United States Bureau of Fisheries, Waldo 
L. Schmitt, of the Division of Jferine Invertebrates, spent the months of 
August, September and October in California engaged in a study of the life 
history of the West Coast spiny lobster, Panulirus interruptus (Randall). 
. The greater part of the time, by courtesy of the Scripps Institution 
for Biological Research# was spent at their laboratories at La Jolla, 
examining their extensive plankton collections for the larval stages of 
the "lobster.” Considerable material, chiefly of the younger stages, was 
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obtained here, inclviding many specimens of the first poet- embryonic stage, 
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hatched by Mr. P. S. Barnhart, Curator of the Institutiom museum, in one of 
their large aquarium tanks. And further/ the assistance extended by the 
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Director, Dr. Ritter, enabled Vt* Schmidt to conduct a two-day dredging and 
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tow-netting trip both along, out and Ipside the extensive kelp-beds lying 
between La Jolla and Point Lome. ■ 
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An examination was also made of the collections of the University of 
California at Berkeley, Stanford University at Palo Alto, the University of 
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Southern California at Los Angeles, Pokonal College at Claremont, the Venice 
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Marine Biological Station (of the TTniv^rsity of So»it] ern California) at 
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Venice, the Laguna Marine Ijaboratory (of Pomona College) at Laguna Beach, and 
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the Museum of the San Diego Natural ^"Istorjr Society at San Diego, and some 
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pertinent material obtained. 
But by far the richest samples of spiny lobster larvae were returned 
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through the activities and generous oo-operation of the California State 
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Fish and Game Commission. These cblleotions were secured by moans of a 
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