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THE MARINE BIOLOGICAL STATION AT
LA JOLLA.

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.

A reinforced concrete laboratory situated in the recently acquired 160-acre pueblo lot near La Jolla is approaching completion. Largely through Professor C. A. Kofoid's extensive study of European marine laboratories during the year 1908-00, it has been possible to construct and appoint this building in accordance with the best experience.

During the last year a large invoice of scientific apparatus, designed largely 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 recent years in the North Atlantic Ocean and in the North and Baltic Seas. This equipment therefore represents the maximum efficiency yet reached for such researches. 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 practically the entire time of the Director; and therefore the patrons of the station and the Regents of the University have together arranged that the present Director, Professor W. E. Ritter, shall reside at the station, beginning June, 1909, 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.

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