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Roads, Mr. P. S. Shoaff, formerly Chief Chemist of the Holly Sugar 

 Corporation, and Dr. G. C. Spencer, formerly of the Bureau of 

 Chemistry, together with an operating force numbering forty-three. 



Prof. C. C. Nutting, a member of the Academy, is organizing a 

 party of naturalists, composed almost entirely of graduate students 

 and instructors in zoology at the State University of Iowa, to carry on 

 investigations regarding marine fauna in the vicinity of the islands of 

 Barbados and Antigua, British West Indies. The party will sail 

 about April 27 from New York and expects to return about August 1. 

 The time will be divided between the islands of Barbados and Antigua, 

 at both of which places the Colonial Governments have placed ade- 

 quate quarters for the party. A well-equipped launch with excellent 

 facilities for dredging down to 200 fathoms has been proffered by a 

 Washington friend, who himself will be a member of the party. 



In his preliminary trip to Barbados last summer Prof. Nutting found 

 that the natives of these islands are quite expert in diving, and one of 

 them was capable of bringing up specimens from a depth of 10 fathoms. 

 It is the intention to make rather extensive use of native divers to 

 procure specimens down to this depth. 



The following persons have become members of the Academy since 

 the last issue of the Journal: Miss Frances Densmore, Bureau of 

 American Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution; Major William Mc- 

 Pherson, War Department, 1800 Virginia Avenue; Dr. Francis 

 Briggs Silsbee, Bureau of Standards. 



