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OCEANOGRAPHY IN THE UNITED STATES 



development of similar centers of research, both in this country and 

 abroad, seems to indicate that the original concept of our laboratory 

 was sound. 



(Matter referred to follows :) 



Directors 



1930-40 : Dr. Henry B. Bigelow 

 1940-50 : Dr. 0. O'D. Iselin 

 1950-56 : Rear Adm. Ed. H. Smith 

 1956-58 : Dr. C. O'D. Iselin 

 1958-present : Dr. Paul M. Fry 



Presidents of the Corporation 



1930-40 : Dr. Frank R. Lillie 

 1940-50 : Dr. Henry B. Bigelow 

 1950-56 : Dr. Arnaud C. Marts 

 1956-present : Mr. Raymond Stevens 



With the exception of the Atlantis and Astcrias all craft were conversions. 

 The Albatross III was on loan from the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries and the 

 Yamacraw on loan from the U.S. Coast Guard. The Chain is on loan from the 



U.S. Navy. 



Aircraft : 



PBY 1952-57 (on loan from the U.S. Navy). 



R4D 1957; present (on loan from the U.S. Navy). 



Stinson Voyager 1954 ; present. 



The Chairman. Next will be Mr. William S. von Arx. 



STATEMENT OF WILLIAM S. VON ARX 



Mr. VON Arx. Physical study of the ocean has been developed for 

 the most part from economic or industrial necessity. Some of the 

 first systematic deep-sea soundings were made in connection with 

 the laying of the North Atlantic telegraph cables. Intensive studies 

 of the circulation and water temperatures have been prompted by a 

 desire to improve the yield of fisheries in many parts of the world. 

 Other studies of the oceans have been made for reasons of military 

 necessity. Only a few great expeditions have been prompted by 

 simple inquisitiveness. Except for the latter, each of these endeavors 

 has been approached in a relatively single-minded fashion so that the 

 yield beyond the questions initially asked has been smaller than it 

 might have been. 



In the years since the last war Federal support of oceanographic 

 research has been broadly administered with the result that, after a 

 lapse of over a century, undirected human curiosity has led to the 



