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marine fishes from southern North America, Bahamas, 

 China, New Guinea, Haiti, Puerto Rico, southern 

 California and Mexico, New York, New Jersey, North 

 Caroh'na, Panama, Brazil, British Guiana, Congo, 

 West Africa, Red Sea and Nile Valley, Burma, 

 Philippines, Japan, Bali, Java, Sumatra and South 

 Pacific; osteological collection of over 1000 fish 

 skeltons. 



Living Foraminifera Laboratory 



EXECUTIVE OFFICER: Dr. Brooks F. Ellis, Chairman 

 and Curator, Department of Micropaleontology. 



SCOPE OF activities: Unrestricted research on living 

 Foraminifera and associated flora. 



PROVISIONS FOR VISITING SCIENTISTS: Space for 2 

 visitors. 



MAJOR RESEARCH FACILITIES AVILABLE: Circulating 



marine aquarium; research collections of stained cyto- 

 logical preparations of Cold Spring Harbor fauna 

 collected at monthly intervals. 

 SIZE OF staff: One at professional level ; 2 technicians. 



IMPORTANT species AVAILABLE FOR LABORATORY 



studies: 

 Foraminifera: Aiioinaliihi sp., Allogromia sp., Cor- 

 mup'/ra sp., Elphiilitini spp., Miliamin'nM, Konion 

 spp., Noiiionellu sp., Plaiiulina sp., QuinqiielocuVma 

 spp., Strebuliis beccarii, Trochanimhia spp. 



MAJOR research PROJECTS AND SCIENTIFIC LEADERS: 



A Study of the growth requirements of littoral fora- 

 minifera in defined media (John J. Lee) 



Taxonomic studies of local dinoflagellates (in cooper- 

 ation with Haskins Laboratories) (John J. Lee) 



Department of Fossil Invertebrates 



EXECUTIVE officer: Norman D. Newell, Chairman 



and Curator. 

 SCOPE OF activities: Marine geology and ecology, 



functional anatomy of marine invertebrates and sys- 



tematics of corals and pelecypods. 

 PROVISIONS FOR VISITING SCIENTISTS: Research space 



for 1-2 visitors, by arrangement; no fees charged. 

 COLLECTIONS: General reference collections of fossil 



invertebrates. 



major RESEARCH PROJECTS AND SCIENTIFIC LEADERS: 



Ecology of the Great Bahama Bank (Norman D. 



Newell) 

 Systematics of bivalve mollusks (Norman D. Newell) 

 Systematics of corals (Donald F. Squires) 

 Geomorphology of coral reefs (Norman D. Newell) 



Department of Living Invertebrates 



EXECUTIVE officer: William K. Emerson, Chairman. 



collections: World-wide research and identified ref- 

 erence collections of recent invertebrates exclusive of 

 insects. 



MAJOR RESEARCH PROJECTS AND SCIENTIFIC LEADERS: 

 Neuroendocrine physiology of the crab, Gecairinus 



l.iteralis (Dorthy E. Bliss) 

 Distributional studies of the marine molluscan faunas 



of western Mexico (William K. Emerson) 

 Taxonomy of the polychaetous annelids; zoogeography 



of the deep-sea benthos (Meredith L. Jones) 

 Continuation of "The Invertebrates," vol. 6, Mollusks 



(Libbie H. Hyman) 



Lerner Alariue Laboratory 



See complete description, page 14. 



Australian Museum 



POSTAL ADDRESS: College Street, Sydney, New South 



Wales, Australia. 

 EXECUTIVE OFFICER: Dr. J. W. Evans, Director. 

 SPONSORING agency: New South Wales government. 



YEAR FOUNDED: 1827. 



PROVISIONS FOR VISITING SCIENTISTS: Space for 2 visi- 

 tors ; no fees charged ; living quarters available nearby. 



MAJOR RESEARCH FACILITIES: Very extensive library 

 (other facilities indicated under appropriate divi- 

 sions). 



SIZE OF STAFF: Fourteen at professional level; 8 tech- 

 nicians. 



PUBLICATIONS ISSUED: 



Records of the At/stralian Mtiseiaii (regularly pub- 

 lished journal) 

 AiiUrjlian Natural History (regularly published 

 journal) 

 DEPARTMENTS OF MUSEUM DESCRIBED: (Activities in- 

 clude aquatic biology) 



1. Department of Crustacea and Coelenterata 



2. Department of Ichthyology 



3. Department of Mollusks 



4. Department of Annelids and Echinoderms 



Department of Crustacea and Coelenterata 



EXECUTIVE OFFICER: Dr. John Yaldwyn, Curator. 



SCOPE OF ACTIVITIES: Unrestricted research on general 

 marine and fresh-water biology, with particular em- 

 phasis on taxonomy. 



COLLECTIONS: Comprehensive research and identified 

 reference collections of local marine and fresh-water 

 Crustacea and Coelenterata. 



MAJOR CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS AND SCIENTIFIC 

 LEADERS: 



Taxonomy of AWrf«/w (Crustacea) (J. Yaldwyn) 



Department of Ichthyology 



EXECUTIVE OFFICER: Gilbert Percy Whitley, Curator. 



SCOPE OF ACTIVITIES: Unrestricted research on ichthy- 

 ology with particular emphasis on taxonomy. 



collections: Extensive research collections of elasmo- 

 branchs and fishes, the majority of the families of re- 



