Figure 27. — Steamer Phalarope at the Fisheries dock, Woods Hole. 

 The small vessel was used for daily collection of 

 biological material in 1930' s. 



hundred stations. The distribution of about 25 species of 

 animals and plants is shown on nnany maps accompanying 

 the report of this survey. Osburn and Cole collaborated 

 with Sumner in the study of animal populations; Bradley M. 

 Davis, Professor of Botany at the University of Chicago 

 and later at the University of Pennsylvania, studied the 

 distribution of marine algae. Temperature and salinity 

 of the water were recorded, and all collected material was 

 carefully catalogued. The completed report on this monumental 

 undertaking was published in two volumes of the Bulletin of 

 the Bureau of Fisheries (Sumner, Osburn, and Cole, 1913a, 

 1913b; Davis, 1913a, 1913b). The survey contains valuable 

 information on the distribution of various animals, and to 

 this day remains the main source of information about marine 

 life on the bottom of the principal bodies of water near Woods 

 Hole. 



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