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tion of a photograph of Maury's statue, which stands at the 

 entrance to the Hydrographic Office. This picture was placed 

 on the wall of the cabin, when we returned. 



During the speeches in German which followed the dinner, 

 some of us had difficulty in keeping our eyes on the speaker. 

 The ceiling was decorated with full length paintings of the daugh- 

 ters of the successive mayors of Hamburg. Each buxom lass 

 was posed as a rose in a thorny bush — and from this feature of 

 the decorations the room derives its name. 



On June 26, Captain Ault, Dr. and Mrs. Sverdrup, Parkinson, 

 Torreson, and Paul, proceeded to Berlin where they were to at- 

 tend the special joint meeting of the Geographical and Oceano- 

 graphic Societies, and to confer with various scientists in con- 

 nection with our work and new equipment. Parkinson took some 

 of his instruments along, which he was to compare with those at 

 the Potsdam Magnetic Observatory and elsewhere. The party 

 was met at the station in Berlin by Dr. Defant and Dr. Wiist, 

 who had reserved hotel rooms for them. The evening was spent 

 in informal conferences with these distinguished scientists. 



While they were in Berlin, Seiwell was visiting the famous 

 Marine Biological Station on Heligoland; and Soule, Scott, and 

 Jones were busy in Hamburg installing new apparatus on board, 

 and surveying a site for a shore magnetic station to be occupied a 

 few days hence. 



The party in Berlin spent the morning of June 27 inspecting 

 the Institute of Oceanography. They had the good fortune to 

 meet personally the various members of the great German At- 

 lantic Expedition of the Meteor, and to profit by the practical 

 knowledge these men had acquired in their recently completed 

 three-year cruise of the South iVtlantic. The offices of this ex- 

 pedition were extremely busy, for they aimed to complete the 

 publication of their scientific results within five years — a stupen- 

 dous task. This visit was a very profitable investment of our 

 time. We could get here a fine perspective of the whole field of 

 oceanography, and could see the correlation of the physical, 

 chemical, and biological phases of the science. The immediate 

 results of these conferences were numerous. We modified some 



