THE MARINE BIOLOGICAL STATION AT LA JOLLA

RESIDENT STAFF.

WM. E. RITTER, Ph.D., Director.

E. L. MICHAEL, M.S., Research Assistant in Zoology.

*MYRTLE E. JOHNSON, M.S., Research Assistant in Biology and Acting

Librarian.

*EDNA E. WATSON, Ph.D., Research Assistant in Biology.

NON-RESIDENT STAFF.

C. A. KOFOID, Ph.D., Assistant Director, Professor of Zoology, University

of California.

H. B. TORREY, Ph.D., Librarian, Associate Professor of Zoology, Univer

sity of California.

C. O. ESTERLY, Ph.D., Zoologist, Professor of Zoology, Occidental College, Los Angeles, California.

G. F. MCEWEN, Ph.D., Hydrographer, Instructor in Applied Mathematics,

University of Illinois.

W. C. BURBRIDGE, A.B., Chemist for work on Sea Water, Assistant in Chemistry, Leland Stanford Junior University.

W. C. CRANDALL, A.B., Master of the Alexander Agassiz, Teacher of Biology, State Normal School, San Diego.

The Marine Biological Station, situated on the southern coast of California, is supported by private gifts, chiefly from Miss E. B. Scripps and Mr. E. W. Scripps, of San Diego. At present the station is under the management of the Marine Biological Association of San Diego, and is not a part of the University. Provision has been made, however, for the transfer of the property and management to the University as soon as the station shall have been securely founded and endowed.

The laboratory work is now carried on in the reinforced concrete building lately erected on the 160-acre pueblo lot acquired from the city of San Diego by the Biological Association, and located near the village

* Resigned, December, 1910.

of La Jolla. A large invoice of scientific apparatus, designed chiefly to equip the launch Alexander Agassiz for work at sea, has been imported from Europe. Most of this apparatus has been developed by the biologists and hydrographers of northern Europe, in connection with extensive explorations conducted in late years in the North Atlantic Ocean and in the North and Baltic Seas. It therefore represents some of the best instrumental appliances yet devised for researches of this kind. But it is gratifying to record that probably the most successful opening-and-closing net yet made-for capturing the free life of the sea at known distances below the surface-was devised by Professor Kofoid at La Jolla and was built by Robert Baker of San Diego.

The work of the station has developed rapidly and now demands the time of as many resident and non-resident naturalists as the funds available will maintain. The patrons of the station and the Regents of the University have arranged that the present director, Professor W. E. Ritter, shall reside at the station most of the year, though without severing his connection with the work of instruction and research in the Department of Zoology at Berkeley.

While the whole time and effort of the staff of the laboratory is devoted to research, a limited number of students sufficiently advanced to be able to work under the guidance of the investigators to the advantage of both themselves and their directors will be gladly admitted.

Graduate students who are candidates for higher degrees in the University may, under specified conditions, count the time spent at work in the laboratory as University residence for such degrees.