Word: monterey
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...they are so difficult to secure is because their habits are pelagic and they appear only singly near the coasts. As they are from four to six feet long and large in proportion, they cannot be caught by ordinary means, and so escape. The above specimen came from Monterey Bay. The National Museum has the only other specimen of the moonfish in the United States. The collection of fishes there and in the Harvard Museum are the only ones in the country larger than the Stanford collection. The Harvard collection ranks second...
...seaside laboratory for Leland Stanford, Jr. University has been located at Pacific Grove, two miles west of Monterey, California. It is the first laboratory of the kind on the Pacific coast, and one of the four in the United States...
California Lawn Tennis Club, championship of the Pacific Coast, at Monterey, June 30-July...