THE BLUEFISH ON THE Y— EMBLEM OF THE YALE FISHING CLUB 



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IN 1948, Wendell W. Anderson, of Detroit, Michigan, a 

 member of the Yale Class of 1922, led an expedition to 

 New Zealand for the university's Bingham Oceanographic 

 Laboratory and Peabody Museum. Several months were spent 

 by his party and the scientists in fishing and collecting speci- 

 mens to be returned to New Haven. In 1950, Tommy Shevlin, 

 son of a famous Yale footballer, went on an expedition to the 

 waters off Kenya and Tanganyika, East Africa. Here some 

 small striped marlin and Pacific sailfish were caught, and the 

 scientists made molds of many fish for future museum exhibi- 

 tion. They also discovered some new species. In 1953, Mr. 

 Anderson, a member of the Cabo Blanco Fishing Club, led a 

 third expedition to Ecuador and Peru. 



This latter expedition went to South American waters in 

 an attempt to learn more about several aspects of oceanogra- 



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