FAUNA OF PENIKESE ISLAND. 19 



The party was conveyed from the Fisheries Laboratory at 

 \Yoods Hole to Penikese Island by the U. S. Fisheries Steamer 

 Pharalope. Collecting apparatus of every character as available 

 was taken; there were seines, townets, dipnets, butterfly nets, 

 sweeping nets, spade, rakes, gun, dipper, spoon, rat traps, 

 mouse traps, etc., with necessary reagent for killing and pre- 

 serving, and containers of various sorts, besides maps, labels, 

 salinometers and cameras. The methods employed may be 

 inferred from the apparatus taken. 



It was originally contemplated to report the collections by 

 station and habitat, but the character of the fauna of the island 

 to which reference is made on page 25 below, made it evident 

 that no particularly useful purpose would be served by adhering 

 to a plan that would have both complicated the study and 

 greatly extended the report. 



Penikese Island. Northwest part, looking north from Pond 2-B. 

 (See footnote to p. 27.) 



The study and identification of material was done in part 

 by certain members of the collecting party, and in part by 

 specialists associated with the United States National Museum 

 and the Boston Society of Natural History; cordial acknowl- 

 edgments are due to those institutions for the assistance that 

 was so freely rendered. Appropriate credit to individuals is 

 given in connection with the lists of species beginning on page 26, 

 but in this place particular mention should be made of the 

 following persons as the virtual authors of the systematic portion 



