the progress as well as direction of the Lab- 

 oratory's many research activities. 



MEETINGS ATTENDED 



Gulf States Marine Fisheries Commission's 

 Shrimp Research Committee, New Orleans, 

 La., July (3)2 



Annerican Institute of Biological Sciences, 

 Boulder, Colo., August (2) 



American Society of Ichthyologists andHer- 

 petologists, Morehead City, N.C., September (1) 



American Fisheries Society, Atlantic City, 

 N.J., September (4) 



American Fisheries Society (Southeastern 

 Division), Clearwater, Fla., October (1) 



Gulf States Marine Fisheries Commission, 

 Brownsville, Tex., October (3) 



Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute, Ocho 

 Rios, Jamaica, November (1) 



Ninth Annual Water For Texas Conference, 

 College Station, Tex., Novennber (1) 



Texas Shrimp Association, Brownsville, 

 Tex., January (2) 



Laboratory Director's nneeting. Fishery 

 Oceanography Center, La JoUa, Calif., Janu- 

 ary (1) 



Committee for the Scientific Exploration 

 of the Atlantic Shelf (SEAS), Wash., D.C., 

 February (I) 



Gulf States Marine Fisheries Commission, 

 Mobile, Ala., March (2) 



Interagency Motor Equipment Management 

 Conference, Dallas, Tex., March (1) 



Senninar on Management of River Basins, 

 University of Texas, Austin, Tex., April (1) 



Safety Management Seminar, Wash., D.C., 

 May (1) 



Regional Staff Conference, St. Petersburg 

 Beach, Fla., May (1) 



Special Libraries Association Meeting, 

 Philadelphia, Pa., June (1) 



Ocean Science and Ocean Engineering Con- 

 ference with Exhibit, Wash., D.C., June (1) 



Shrimp Association of the A-mericas, Mianni, 

 Fla., June (1) 



Texas Professional Photographers Associa- 

 tion, Austin, Tex., June (1) 



WORK CONFERENCES 



Meetings with officials of the Bureau of 

 Reclamation, Bureau of Sport Fisheries and 

 Wildlife, and states to work out details of the 

 Service's contribution to Reclamation's report 

 on the Texas Basins Project, Wash., D.C., 

 July, September, February, and June (1)^; 

 Austin, Tex., August (2); Amarillo, Tex., 

 September (1) 



Meetings with representatives of the Bureau 

 of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife and the 



2 3 See footnote 1 on page 2. 



Louisiana Wild Life and Fisheries Commission 

 to discuss continuing research on the effects 

 of the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet Project, 

 New Orleans, La., August (2); Vicksburg, 

 Miss., January, March, and April (1) 



Participation in Department's Biennial Con- 

 ference of Librarians, Wash., D.C., Septem- 

 ber (1) 



Regional Staff Conference, St. Petersburg 

 Beach, Fla., October (1) 



Bureau-sponsored "red-tide" symposium, 

 St. Petersburg Beach, Fla., October (3) 



Meeting of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Work 

 Group to determine water needs in the Sabine 

 River Basin, April (1) 



Conference in St. Petersburg Regional Of- 

 fice on contract research. May (2) 



PUBLICATIONS 



Diener, Richard A. 



1965a. Texas estuaries and water resource 

 development projects. Proc. 9th Annu. 

 Conf. Water Tex., Tex. A&M Univ., 

 25-31. 

 1965b. The occurrence of tadpoles of the 

 green treefrog, Hyla cinerea cinerea 

 (Schneider), in Trinity Bay, Texas. 

 Brit. J, Herpet. 3(8):198- 199. 

 Klima, Edward F. 



1965. Evaluation of biological stains, inks, 

 and fluorescent pigments as marks for 

 shrimp. U.S. Fish Wildl. Serv., Spec. 

 Sci. Rep. Fish. 511, 8 p. 

 Marvin, Kenneth T., and Raphael R. Proctor, 

 Jr. 

 1965. Stabilizing the ammonia-nitrogen 

 content of estuarine and coastal waters 

 by freezing. Limnol. Oceanogr. 10(2): 

 2-88-290. 

 Roithmayr, Charles M. 



1965. Review of industrial bottomfish 

 fishery in northern Gulf of Mexico, 

 1959-62. Com. Fish. Rev. 27(l):l-6. 



MANUSCRIPTS IN PRESS 



Aldrich, David V. 



Observations on the ecology and life cycle 



of Prochristianella penaei Kruse (Cestoda: 



Trypanorhyncha). J. Paras itol. (19 MS. p., 



4 figs.). 

 Cook, Harry L., and M. Alice Murphy. 



Early developmental stages of the rock 



shrimp, Sicyonia brevirostris Stimpson , 



reared in the laboratory. Tulane Stud. 



Zool. (29 MS. p., 14 figs.). 

 Costello, T. J., and Donald M. Allen. 



Migrations and geographic distribution of 



pink shrimp, Panaeus duorarum , of the 



Tortugas and Sanibel grounds, Florida. 



U.S. Fish Wildl. Serv., Fish. BuU. 



(23 MS. p., 7 figs.). 



