6 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1933 



The Board adopted a resolution recording its appreciation of the 

 bequest to the Institution of $100,000 received through the will of 

 the late Hon. Dwight V/. Morrow. The meeting then adjourned, and 

 the regents viewed the special exhibit in the Secretary's office illus- 

 trating various phases of the Institution's activities. 



FINANCES 



A statement will be found in the report of the executive committee, 



page 188. 



MATTERS OF GENERAL INTEREST 



JOHNSON-SMITHSONIAN DEEP-SEA EXPEDITION 



One of the most extensive programs of oceanographic investigation 

 ever entered into by the Institution was initiated during the year 

 under the name "Johnson-Smithsonian Deep-Sea Expedition." 

 Mr. Eldridge R. Johnson, of Philadelphia, offered the use of his 

 yacht Caroline, to be completely equipped at his exi3ense with the 

 most modern de^dces for oceanographic work. It is expected to 

 make cruises in several following years. The work is under the direc- 

 tion of Dr. Paul Bartsch, curator of the division of mollusks in the 

 National Museum, and the personnel of the first cruise included 

 T. T. Brown, Naval Research Laboratory, physicist; E. W. Price, 

 Bureau of Animal Industry, United States Department of Agricul- 

 ture, zoologist; Charles Weber, student at George Washington Univer- 

 sity, assistant zoologist; Elie Cheverlange, artist; G. R. Goergens, 

 United States Department of Agriculture, photographer; and A. W. 

 Wilding, Bureau of American Ethnology, secretary. The Institution 

 was materially assisted in preparation for the cruise by the Navy 

 Department, the Department of Agriculture, the Carnegie Institution 

 of Washington, George Washington University, the Zoological Society 

 and the Oceanographic Institution of Woods Hole. 



The first cruise began at New York, January 21, 1933, and ended 

 at the nav}'^ yard dock in Washington, March 14, most of the nearly 

 two months being spent in exploring the Puerto Rican deep. The 

 results of the cruise came fully up to expectations. Dr. Bartsch 

 reports that the work was concentrated upon the rim of the deep and 

 that marvelous catches were made, representing all the various 

 groups of marine organisms from vertebrates down to protozoa, as 

 well as aquatic plants. About four truckloads of specimens were 

 carried to the museum. 



In addition to actual specimens gathered, three lines of soundings, 

 235 miles long, were made through the long axis of the deep 20 miles 

 apart with a sounding station at every 5-mile interval. Some of the 

 former depths reported were slightly in excess of those which the 

 Caroline obtained in the same location. It is possible that-the dis- 



