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Originally established at Lovers Point in 1892, moved in 1917
to China Point (now called Cabrillo Point), it was the first
marine laboratory on the Pacific Coast. Associated with Stanford
University, it specializes in the study of intertidal life.
Steinbeck and his younger sister, Mary, played here as children
and later studied zoology and English here in the summer of 1923.
Their teacher, C.V. Taylor, was a disciple of the ideas of Berkeley's
William Emerson Ritter, whose concept of the super-organism influenced
Steinbeck.
During the early 1930s, while struggling to make ends meet, John
and his wife, Carol, fished off the rocks here.
Dr. Walter K. Fisher (Director of Hopkins from 1917 to 1943)
was an ardent critic of Ricketts' ecological approach in Between
Pacific Tides and hindered prompt publication of the book.
Dr. Rolf Bolin, who identified some of the specimens from The
Sea of Cortez trip, was an ichthyologist associated with Hopkins.
Some of Ricketts' papers were donated to Hopkins after his death
in 1948.
Click here for Hopkins' home page.
Lee Chong disinters his grandfather
at China Point (Cannery Row, Chapter II), and two
of the girls from the Bear Flag bring soldiers here (Cannery
Row, Chapter XIV). It is the site of Chin Kee's squid
yard (Tortilla Flat, Chapters XIV and XVI), and
Elizabeth Wayne dreams of the bell buoy off China Point (To
a God Unknown, Chapter 21). In the narrative part of Sea
of Cortez, the Western Flyer passes by the ringing bell
buoy and slips by the town of Pacific Grove on its way out of
port. Hopkins' Rolf Bolin, whose name Steinbeck misspelled, is
portrayed as the debunker of the Old Man of the Sea legend.
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