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more exciting than any experience he had had in South 

 America. He loaded his plane with corals and sea-fans 

 which he brought up from the bottom with his own 

 hands. 



Secretary of War Davis and Senator Oddie were men of 

 such heroic proportions that I had difficulty in fitting the 

 helmet over their massive shoulders, but once submerged, 

 their enthusiasm at the wonders of a coral reef was 

 unbounded. 



A remarkable coincidence was the arrival of another 

 converted four-masted schooner, the Four Winds, with 

 Vice-Admiral Sir Guy Gaunt on board. She anchored 

 within a stone's throw of us for a week. Admiral Gaunt 

 has had almost every experience the sea can offer a sailor, 

 but when he climbed up the diving ladder and dehelmed he 

 said that never before had he met the ocean's inhabitants on 

 such terms of equality, as man to fish. 



Other visitors included the yachting parties of Mr. and 

 Mrs. Charles Mitchell and Mr. H. H. Rogers; Dr. Alexander 

 Wetmore, Dr. Frank Chapman, Elswyth Thane, Charles 

 Beebe, John van Dyke, Margaret McElroy, Dr. and Mrs. 

 Frank Damrosch and Joseph Sheffield. 



New methods of studying and collecting specimens come 

 to light with each expedition, and now the deep-sea tele- 

 phone is approaching perfection. This is the work of the 

 Bell Telephone Laboratory assisted by Dr. Mark Barr, and 

 will eventually do away with the limitations of notes jotted 

 on a zinc tablet, as the diver will be enabled to dictate 

 his observations to some one on the boat. Most valuable 

 electrical material was contributed by Mr. Samuel G. 

 Hibben. 



The spoils accruing from our attendance at a Marine 

 Corps bombing practice, led to our use of small charges 

 of dynamite below the surface, and this proved to be 

 the only means of securing certain shy fish which peeped 

 out from rock crevices with no interest whatever in bait 



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