278 CONTACT WITH INTERNATIONAL SCIENCE 



molluscs, and Dr. E. G. Turbott, the ornithologist, who were with us 

 during our exploration of the i o-kilometre-deep Kermadec Trench, to 

 the north of New Zealand. They were delighted at the rich hauls we made 

 there, declaring that many of the molluscan species were new to science. 



While operating in New Zealand waters it was decided that all collec- 

 tions made there from depths of less than 400 metres should be worked 

 up by local research workers, and before our departure a large part of 

 the material so obtained had been sorted out and handed over to spe- 

 cialists, who received it as a most welcome addition to their already exten- 

 sive collections. 



Our social and scientific contact with these colleagues, and the many 

 other sea-going guests of the expedition whose names I have been unable 

 to mention, was all the more valuable since as a rule it extended over a 

 fairly long period. But compared with the hundreds of scientists and stu- 

 dents with whom we had often all too brief contact while in port these 

 "long-staying" guests and colleagues were a very small minority. 



In order to avoid repetition I shall in the following confine myself to 

 a few characteristic examples of this form of scientific contact. But I 

 should point that there was scarcely one visit to any large port during 

 which the ship was not shown, from keel to masthead, to scores and often 

 hundreds of persons of all ages and every colour, and when we too were 

 not the recipients of a hospitality which on occasion could be overwhelming. 



One of two amusing 



sloths acquired in Panama for 



the Copenhagen <^oo. 



