PREFACE vii 



Prof. Henry Fairfield Osborn, Mr. Gregory 

 Bateson, Mr. Herbert Satterlee and Miss Mabel 

 Satterlee, Mrs. George Putnam and her son David, 

 and Miss Margaret McElroy. 



The scientific staff was of my own choosing, each 

 of the seventeen members having a definite field 

 of work, which they filled to the full extent of their 

 ability. Without their loyalty, constant enthusiasm 

 and cooperation, nothing of success could have been 

 achieved. 



The scientific working personnel was as follows : 

 WilHam Beebe, Director; W. K. Gregory, Asso- 

 ciate in Vertebrates ; L. Segal, Associate in Special 

 Problems; C. J. Fish, Associate in Diatoms and 

 Crustacea; John Tee- Van, General Assistant; 

 William H. Merriam, Assistant in Field Work; 

 Isabel Cooper and Helen Tee-Van, Scientific Art- 

 ists; Ruth Rose, Historian and Technicist; M. D. 

 Fish, Assistant in Larval Fish ; Elizabeth Trotter, 

 Assistant in Fish Problems; Dwight Franklin, 

 Assistant in Fish Preparation; Jay F. W. Pier- 

 son, Assistant in Macroplankton ; Don Dickerman, 

 Assistant artist; E. B. Schoedsack, Assistant in 

 Photography; Serge Chetyrkin, Preparateur; D. 

 W. Cady, Surgeon. 



The interest taken in the expedition was aston- 

 ishingly deep and wide-spread, and the publicity 

 was accurate and dignified. An unexpected result 

 was the desire it aroused among several gentlemen 

 to carry on oceanographic work in the same part of 

 the world. Zane Grey visited the Galapagos in 

 his three-masted schooner Fisherman after a con- 



