Excerpt from First Annual Report of the Laguna Marine Laboratory: At Laguna Beach, Orange County, California, May, 1912 A man's education most perfectly adapts him for the greatest success in any phase of human endeavor only when it has included thorough training in scientific method - accurate observing, truthful recording, and logical correlating. Biology - the study of life - as an element in education (and so in the progress of the human race) represents one of man's most intimate and fundamental intellectual activities - it is the study of his own life forces and of the myriad influences that determine his own setting in nature. The sea, that limitless fountain-head of immeasurable life, which without cultivation has yielded so much to the nurture of the human race, which with cultivation can yield as much food as our best agricultural lands, and which, one day, when the land is crowded with teeming millions, will go far toward feeding the then existing peoples - the sea, I say, presents a multitude of pressing problems of infinite importance to the future of humanity, and is the preeminent biological laboratory of earth, which every year is attracting an increasingly greater number of students, and enlisting an ever warmer and more active human interest. 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.