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CONTACT WITH INTERNATIONAL SCIENCE 



Dr. Grace Pickford in the Galathea's laboratory, 

 with one of her prized 'Vamps\ 



Mr. Swarng Chavernphol filming on the 

 trawl gallows of the quarter-deck. 



an extensive collection of octopuses from nati\'e traps along the coast and 

 would go buying them up in fish-markets and hunting for them on coral 

 reefs, where she impressed us all by her fearlessness in thrusting her hands 

 into all the holes and crevices, occasionally hauling out large, angry octo- 

 puses and having the greatest difficulty in persuading them to let go of 

 her arm before she could lever them into the collecting jars. 



At Manila, Dr. Pickford had to leave us and her place was taken by 

 Professor Torsten Gislen from the Swedish university of Lund. Profes- 

 sor Gislen's speciality was sea-lilies, but our haul of these creatures was 

 unfortunately meagre. However, he busied himself with many other things, 

 was the keenest of many keen searchers among the coral reefs of the 

 Philippines and elsewhere, and wrote long articles for Swedish journals 

 describing his own and our experiences and successes during the months 

 which he spent with us on the stretch between Singapore and Thursday 

 Island. 



Professor Rolf Bolin of the Hopkins Marine Station in California 

 was another old friend of Danish zoologists and the Dana Expedition, 

 having studied in Copenhagen the Dana's collections of silvery pearlsides 

 — fishes with lateral light organs resembling rows of port-holes. Boarding 



