First Annual Report of the Laguna Marine Laboratory: At Laguna Beach, Orange County, California, May, 1912 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from First Annual Report of the Laguna Marine Laboratory: At Laguna Beach, Orange County, California, May, 1912 Deadman's Island at San Pedro. The single day spent there each year, among the rich displays of life accessible at low tide, had kept alive the intention of the Department, growing stronger year by year, to spend portions of each summer on the coast, with a selected group of interested Pomona students. After many to organize such a project, early in 1911, Dr. Cook, Professor Baker, and Mr. Charles W. Metz, at a final conference, decided to go, regard less of obstacles, for one season's trial, and to take with them a group of students interested in the work solely for the work's sake, and to share with them alike in all expenses of whatever nature. The Selec tion of a location was left to Professor Baker and Mr. Metz, and these two, during the Spring of 1911, worked over, largely on foot, most of the coast from Redondo to Laguna. The latter locality was settled upon without any question, as by all odds the most desirable for our immediate purposes - studies on the fauna and flora of the tidal zone and its immediate neighborhood. The varied topograph ical and ecological conditions - the high promotories, the acres of rocky tide - pools exposed at low tide, the numerous small sand beaches, all equally accessible - together with the varied beauty of all the natural surroundings, Showed this to be a most uniquely favorable place. We immediately rented a large house from Mr. James T. Smith, and June 21 found us in possession with all the necessary outfit for the proposed work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.