Excerpt from University of California Publications in Zoology, Vol. 14 That Bureau assented cordially to the proposal, which had already been discussed informally at a considerably earlier date. In October, 1911, formal approval was given to the plan, under conditions pre scribed by the Bureau of Fisheries. The execution of the project was later vested in a board, consisting of the commanding officer and the naturalist of the Albatross, and a third member to be designated by the committee representing the local institutions above mentioned. Professor C. A. Kofoid, of the University of California, was chosen as the representative of the latter body, while the other members were Commander G. H. Burrage, U. S. N., succeeded by lieutenant-com mander H. B. Soule, U. S. N., together with the senior author of the present report. A definite programme of work was formulated, and some important additions to the equipment of the Albatross were decided upon. Field operations were commenced on January 30, 1912. This survey has been concerned almost wholly with San Francisco Bay, including San Pablo Bay, though a considerable number of stations were dredged outside of the Golden Gate, even to a point beyond the Farallon Islands. The stations which were occupied by the Albatross or by one of her launches have been classified under two main heads: (1) those at which our chief attention was devoted to dredging or trawling, and (2) those at which we were chiefly concerned with hydrographic observations and with plankton collection. The former have been designated in our records as dredging stations, the latter as hydro graphic stations. To each series an independent set of consecutive numbers has been given, continuous with those of the past Alba tross records. The station numbers are preceded by the letters D and H respectively. In the former series there are, at the date of writing, 149 stations, in the latter series 322 stations. 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.