2 ALLAN HANCOCK ATLANTIC EXPEDITION REPORT 



geon, who came aboard at Port of Spain with a consignment of live 

 animals from Brazil. For the reader's easy reference, the remainder of 

 the scientific staff consisted of Dr. Wm. R. Taylor of the University of 

 Michigan, Messrs. Karl Koch and C. B. Perkins of the San Diego 

 Zoological Society, and Messrs. Granville P. Ashcraft, Francis H. El- 

 more, John S. Garth, J. Alex Hill, Chester L. Hogan, Charles B. Wade, 

 and Fred C. Ziesenhenne of the Hancock Expeditions staff. 



In conformity with the pattern set by Volume 1, Number 2, a running 

 description of the coast line from Cristobal to Port of Spain has been 

 attempted as a background to the station list which follows. Actually, 

 the localities visited by the Velero III, being sporadically placed and arbi- 

 trarily chosen, do not justify this treatment to the same degree as in the 

 Pacific, where repeated journeys along the same coast line gave oppor- 

 tunity to fill in large gaps originally left between stations. A second cruise, 

 substituting a stop at Cartagena or Santa Marta for the one at Barran- 

 quilla, where no marine work was possible, a stop at Puerto Cabello for 

 the one at La Guaira, where port regulations proved restraining, and a 

 visit to the Venezuelan islands of Orchilla, Los Roques, and Las Aves 

 instead of Tortuga, Coche, and Cubagua, would have been highly desir- 

 able in order to round out the station record. Such a cruise might have 

 eventuated had not the Velero III been pressed into government service 

 in the fall of 1941. Some paragraphs of description are devoted to locali- 

 ties omitted from the itinerary in the hope that they may catch the eye of 

 someone possessed of the facilities to explore them. The greatest detail, 

 however, is reserved for those stops at which the Velero III made actual 

 collections, and to the local conditions under which such collections were 

 made. 



The Central America and Mexico Coast Pilot (East Coast) (H. O. 

 No. 130) and Sailing Directions for the West Indies, Volume H (H. O. 

 No. 129), have been consulted wherever necessary to supplement original 

 observations, and have of necessity become standards for orthography, 

 since no complete listing of place names is otherwise available. The survey 

 charts of the U.S. Hydrographic Office have been referred to for distances 

 and elevations. The log of the Velero III has contributed notations on 

 weather, anchorage positions, and depths. Photographs of the coast line, 

 and particularly of collecting grounds, have also been considered source 

 material. 



To provide the research student with a more nearly complete and 

 coherent picture of environmental conditions than is usually afforded by 

 the brief notations included as specimen data has been considered the 



