PREFACE ix 



in the list of scientific names in Appendix B. Ap- 

 pendix A consists of a resume of the bird life of 

 Osborn Island. Beyond a final narrative chapter 

 I have attempted no definite chronological journal. 



All the details of operation, explanation of the 

 apparatus, technical descriptions of specimens and 

 of our individual problems, will be published in 

 Volume VIII of Zoologica, the Zoological 

 Society's scientific publication. 



Chapters VI and X are wholly the work of Ruth 

 Rose and in her role of Staff Historian she has 

 collaborated with me in Chapters I, IX and XVI. 

 Colored Plates IV and VI, and the book lining are 

 the work of my Staff Artist, Isabel Cooper; Plate 

 III is by Don Dickerman; Plate VIII by Dwight 

 Franklin, while Plates I, II, V and VII are by 

 Helen Tee-Van. In regard to the black and white 

 illustrations. Figures 1, 4, 8, 49, 50, 59 and 60 are 

 from drawings by Dwight Franklin; 31, 47 and 58 

 by Isabel Cooper; 36 by Don Dickerman; 12 and 

 18 by Charles Livingston Bull by permission of 

 the Curtis Publishing Company; 2, 16, bQ, 61 and 

 66 by John Tee-Van; 69 by Elwin R. Sanborn 

 from the New York Aquarium, and 10 from the 

 American Museum. All the remaining photo- 

 graphs are by Ernest Schoedsack. 



OBJECTS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF THE 

 EXPEDITION 



The avowed objects of the Arcturus Expedition 

 were the investigation of the Sargasso Sea and the 



