THE SCRIPPS INSTITUTION FOR BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOCAL BOARD OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION BENJ. IDE WHEELER, Ph.D., LL.D., Litt.D., President of the University, Berkeley. ELLEN B. SCRIPPS, D.Litt., La Jolla. E. W. SCRIPPS, Miramar. FRED. BAKER, M.D., San Diego. E. L. MICHAEL, M.S., La Jolla. GEORGE F. MCEWEN, Ph.D., La Jolla. W. C. CRANDALL, A.B., Business Manager and Secretary of the Local Board. RESIDENT RESEARCH STAFF WM. E. RITTER, Ph.D., Director and Zoologist. F. B. SUMNER, Ph.D., Biologist. W. C. CRANDALL, A.B., Master of the Alexander Agassiz. W. S. WALLACE, Research Assistant. NON-RESIDENT RESEARCH STAFF C. A. KOFOID, Ph.D., Assistant Director, Professor of Zoology, University of California. C. O. ESTERLEY Ph.D., Zoologist, Professor of Zoology, Occidental College, Los Angeles, Calif. MYRTLE E. JOHNSON, Ph.D., Zoologist, Teacher of Biology, Pasadena High School, Pasadena, Calif. J. FRANK DANIEL, Ph.D., Special Investigator on Elasmobranch Fishes, Associate Professor of Zoology, University of California. A. L. BARROws, M.S., Fellow Collaborator with Professor KOFOID. KEEPERS OF EQUIPMENT S. S. BERRY, Ph.D., Librarian. E. P. VAN DUZEE, Associate Librarian. C. J. MARVIN, B.S., Keeper of the Museum. KARL KÖLTZE, Keeper of the Aquarium. 2 The Scripps Institution for Biological Research The Institution, formerly the Marine Biological Station of San Diego, located at La Jolla, is mainly supported by gifts from Miss E. B. Scripps and Mr. E. W. Scripps, but recently the State of California has become a contributor to its current expenditures. The Institution is now an integral part of the University; but, owing to its remoteness from Berkeley the Regents of the University have entrusted the internal affairs of the Institution to the Local Board so far as they may under the law and in keeping with the general policy and best interests of the University. That the Local Board may be representative of the scientific policy of the Institution all permanent resident members of the research staff are made eligible to membership in it. The material developments that have been in progress during the last year and are now nearly completed will be a long step toward realizing the plan of making the Institution accessible to visiting investigators and graduate students. Thirteen cottages have been erected on the grounds which will meet the residential needs of both officers of the Institution and visitors for some years to come. The transportation problem has been partially solved by an automobile owned by the Institution which makes a few regular trips and an indefinite number of special trips to and from the village of La Jolla each day and carries passengers for a small fee. A residence having been now provided for the director's family the entire laboratory building will soon be devoted to its proper uses. This will double the space available for investigators, and will provide additional room for library purposes. The museum and aquarium collections which until recently remained in the old laboratory building at La Jolla have been removed to their new home and will soon be permanently placed. A retaining wall for the sea cliff immediately in front of the building is now finished and in connection with it the salt water pumping system is being installed. Although in the absence of the pier called for by the full plans for the marine work, the aquarial system now to be put in operation will be relatively limited in scope and usefulness, it will nevertheless largely increase the present working facilities, and will, it is anticipated, serve the highly useful purpose of answering a number of difficult questions touching the larger and completer system which the future is expected to provide. Extensive additions are now being made to the library and the books and pamphlets are being properly catalogued and arranged, so that in a few months this branch of the Institution will be on a measurably satisfactory working basis. For the present fiscal year there has been provided one research fellowship, the holder of which is a candidate for the doctor's degree in the University and it is hoped this may be the beginning of a method of contributing to the training of investigators that shall be advantageous to both students and Institution. SUMMER SESSION OUTLINE OF ANNOUNCEMENT PUBLISHED 1913 MARCH, 1913 For Catalogue of Students in the Summer Session 1913, see Bulletin of the Summer Session to be published March, 1914. |