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more thorough knowledge of the copepod fauna 

 of the Gulf of Mexico, its relation to the other 

 marine life of the area and its physical environ- 

 ment, shows that no more than a beginning has 

 been made so far. Nevertheless, it is an encour- 

 aging beginning in view of the potentialities of the 

 problem that it reveals. There is a considerable 

 wealth of Gulf copepod material lying fallow in 

 the collections of the U. S. National Museum that 

 deserves attention in the light of the growing 

 importance of the Gulf fishery resources now 

 being actively developed by the current investiga- 

 tions of the Fish and Wildlife Service. 



In Washington there are stored, as yet unstudied 

 but still in good condition, considerable plankton 

 collections made by the former United States Fish 

 Commission and the Bureau of Fisheries steamer 

 Fish Hawk in the Gulf of Mexico from as early as 

 1895 through 1901, 1902, 1903, 1912, 1913, and 

 in 1914 as far to the westward as Lavaca Bay, 

 Texas. These samples should have early atten- 

 tion, a small staff assembled to properly deal with 

 them, and the necessary equipment provided. 

 The U. S. National Museum provides unexcelled 

 facilities for accomplishing these and similar tasks 

 which will inevitably arise as the Gulf is more 

 intensivel}^ studied. The student of copepods may 

 have access here to the incomparable copepod 

 library of the late C. B. Wilson that he bequeathed 

 the Smithsonian Institution and to the extensive, 

 authoritatively identified collection of specimens 

 to which he devoted his life and upon which were 

 based his many valuable publications dealing with 

 the free-swimming and parasitic marine copepods 

 of the world. 



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