The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-06-24
The UNIVERSITY.
MARINE STATION
SUMMER SCHOOL OF BIOLOGY
NOW AT WORK
otuoents Well Pleased with station
Here-Prof. Joubert, of Friday
Harbor, a Student-Program in
Detail for First Week.

The State University has the bio
logical work of it's summer school at
Friday Harbor as last year. Through
the kindness of the Pacific American
Fisheries Company the use of it's can
merry buildings along the water front
has been secured for laboratory pur-
poses. The large floor space, afford
ing plenty of room for everyone; the
proximity to salt water, in which
plants and animals may be preserved
alive for some time; the docks, con-
venient for loading and unloading
from boats; and the fresh water
piped into the buildings, makes them
most excellent place for the work.
The cannery proper is used for lab
oratory purposes only, while the low
er floor Of the Chinese house has been
cleaned and serves as kitchen and
dining room. A cooperative board
ing club enables the party to adjust
meal times to the tides, since low
tides afford favorable opportunities
for collecting plants and animals
which live along the shore. The
members of the party live in tents
pitched on the hillsides about the
cannery, where the long-beaked mos
quito will not be constantly poking
his nose into everything and every
body Two skiffs were bought from
R. G. Willis, of Olga, and two more
were ordered from Jas. Scribner and
are now about completed. The
snrimp steamer Zebeitka, of the
Haynes Oyster Company, Seattle,
has been chartered. With it will be
used one of Capt Newhall's fishing
skiffs, for carrying the party from
place to place and also for dredging
for deeper animals and plants. The
dredger and steam hoists of the
shrimper prove particularly conven-
lent.
DR.. Frye, of the University, has
been in town since the 18th, getting
ready the laboratory, arranging for
boats, etc. A number OF teachers
and students arrived on the steamer
Lydia Thompson Monday and others
are expected. The following named
persons are here at present:
DR.. T. C. Frye, Seattle; DIR. II. 5.
Brode, Walla Walla; Prof. J. r. Ii
lingworth, Seattle; Prof. F. E. Jor-
bert, Friday Harbor; A. S. Pope,
Seattle; Letcher Lambuth, Seattle;
Miss Anna Corey, Seattle; Miss An
ma Brosdhead, Rainier; Miss Anna
Dalgity, Seattle; Miss Minnie Rohn,
Tiltonville, Miss Bertha Kilgour,
North Yakima; Miss Mary Oakley,
Ballard, and Mrs. Anna L. Hart,
Seattle
The work will be conducted for SIX
weeks, or until July goth. Courses
are offered in botany and zoology
for the convenience of teachers and
students, and abundant opportunity
is given for the collection of plants
and animals for museum and la0er-
atory purposes. One Of the objects
of the dredging is to determine the
distribution and habits of the animals
and plants of the Sound. Food IS
one of the chief factors in the distrl-
button of sea forms, as it is OF land
forms, yea, even of man himself.
Plants are the only food manufactur-
ers; animals depend upon them for q
living either directly, or indirectly, by
living upon other animals. by exam
ming the contents of the stomachs OF
animals one can arrive at some logic
al conclusion concerning the causes
Of distribution. Observations IKE
these must determine the distribution
of shrimp, CLAIMS, crabs, etc. It re-
ouires, however, an extensive know
ledge Of what grows in the Sound,
and where.
Following is the program OF the
narty for the week commencing June
1 10:
Monday Unpacking.
Tuesday Z 80, breakfast; 800, en-.
rollments and announcements; 1000,
trim to Point Caution row boats;
80, dinner; 2:3O, laboratory work