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CONTACT WITH INTERNATIONAL SCIENCE 



Professor Rolf Bolin, California, filming 

 in the Tonga Islands. 



our successful expedition. To be given such a cordial welcome by the 

 Plymouth Laboratory, with all that its name implies, was felt by us to be 

 a great privilege. 



Elsewhere ours was the first Danish oceanographical research ship to 

 visit such large and internationally known marine biological stations as 

 the Hopkins Marine Station in California, to which reference has already 

 been made, and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, south of Los 

 Angeles, which is the largest in the world. At the Scripps Institution Pro- 

 fessor Zobell and Dr. Morita enabled us to see everything and to talk 

 to scores of scientists, who afterwards paid visits in their amphibian craft 

 to the Galathea as she lay at anchor opposite the institution. One episode 

 will illustrate the readiness of the staff of the Scripps Institution to assist 

 us. After a number of our very valuable precision thermometers had been 

 crushed by the massive pressure during our first temperature measure- 

 ments in the Philippine Trench, we received in response to a telegraphic 

 message a loan of six new thermometers, which were flown to us across 

 the Pacific and reached us within the week. 



We would also receive valuable assistance in altogether different ways. 

 For example, cautious inquiries of the amazing Dr. Paulian at Diego 

 Suarez in Madagascar resulted in a gift of three delightful lemurs, along 

 with other animals for the Copenhagen Zoo, besides rare aquatic plants 

 for the Botanical Gardens in Copenhagen. Similarly at Panama, where 

 Mr. James Zetek — an old friend of the Dana and the Monsunen — 



