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Originally published San Diego, Calif. : Tofua Press, 1978

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ABSTRACT:
In the beginning of the Scripps Institution there were biologists William E. Ritter and Charles A. Kofoid, and there were newspaper owner E. W. Scripps and his philanthropic half-sister Ellen Browning Scripps, and there were medical doctor Fred Baker, who collected sea shells, and his liberated wife Charlotte, and there were the other San Diegans who became members of the Marine Biological Association. There was also a University of California then, to which Ritter belonged. That university in those primordial years was at Berkeley, and its campus was green in spring, golden in summer and fall, and had no automobiles. The early history of the Scripps Institution has been well detailed in Scripps Institution of Oceanography: First Fifty Years, by Helen Raitt and Beatrice Moulton, Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie Press, 1967. which covers the founding years, the directorship of William E. Ritter from 1903 to 1923, and also the directorship of T. Wayland Vaughan from 1924 to 1936, and more. The present account begins in 1936, with some overlap of the account by Raitt and Moulton. It is intended to cover the era of expansion in oceanography from boats along the coast to ships at sea, as has been carried out, with verve, by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

SUGGESTED CITATION:
Elizabeth Noble Shor, "Scripps Institution of Oceanography : probing the oceans, 1936 to 1976" (December 1, 1977). Scripps Institution of Oceanography Archives. Paper shor-1978.
http://repositories.cdlib.org/sio/arch/shor-1978