From the standpoint of the general progress of science in America, it seems highly desirable that the opportunities being here developed for researches in these backward departments of science, should be utilized by a larger number of investigators than it is possible for the Institution with its limited means to maintain on its paid staff.

GRADUATE STUDENTS

The policy so long maintained in a somewhat tentative way of accepting a few research students who are fitted to participate advantageously to both themselves and the Institution in investigations being carried on by members of the regular staff can now, because of the enlarged facilities of the Institution, be made more positive. Work on this basis is possible in several aspects of oceanography, the pelagic life of the sea, systematic zoology, growth in organisms, environmental influence and heredity, the technique of biological observation and thought and possibly laboratory experimentation on the behavior of pelagic animals. No fees are charged students working on this basis, the assumption being that the work done by the student will materially aid in carrying on the Institution's research programme.

Experience is proving that very profitable and pleasant arrangements of this sort can be entered into, but usually a less period than a year devoted to such study will hardly be profitable either to student or Institution.

Investigators and graduate students who contemplate work at the Institution should correspond with the Director before deciding to come to La Jolla. The desire and needs should be set forth quite fully. It is the wish of the management to have the facilities of the Institution used to the very best advantage; and undoubtedly this is possible only when due consideration is given to the question of how well the visitors' needs fall in with the natural conditions of the region and the general policies and equipment of the Institution.