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ment for invaluable observation. The Burroughs Wellcome 

 Laboratory provided a complete medical outfit, and elabo- 

 rate first-aid kits. 



Others who have our gratitude for gifts of uncommon 

 usefulness are: William Delano for our launch the Skink, 

 Vivian Drake for a winch and wire, J. A. Roebling for 

 miles of trawling wire, Maurice Ricker for the inven- 

 tion and construction of a stop motion picture camera, 

 L. R. Smith for the first successful deep-sea pressure gauge, 

 Siebe Gorman Co., for a complete diving suit, Herbert Sat- 

 terlee for a binocular telescope, and for two refrigerators 

 which have kept alive some of our most amazing abyssal 

 fish. 



The Furness Line granted our usual low rates and took 

 especial care of the bathysphere in transit. In Bermuda, 

 Dr. E. G. Conklin allowed us to board at the Biological 

 Station, where for six months we were comfortably lodged 

 and fed, only seven minutes away from our laboratory at 

 New Nonsuch. 



Commander Moorehead of the Meteorological Station 

 put all his knowledge and the daily weather reports at our 

 disposal, and aided our selection of propitious days for the 

 dives. The Bermuda and Halifax Cable Company, through 

 Mr. Rickwood, took care of all our messages at press rates, 

 and in addition generously allowed one of their experts, 

 Mr. A. P. Skinner, to splice the new six hundred foot hose 

 cable on to the old, making a perfect connection. 



Hon. William E. Meyer let me have the Ready, the 



