COLLECTING SPECIMENS throughout the east- 

 ern Pacific Ocean on voyages of the Velero III 

 is attended by intense work on the part of scien- 

 tists. In this group of pictures, collectors are 

 shov/n utilizing a small dredge which is capa- 

 ble of scratching bottom at depths of two hun- 

 dred fathoms. Native divers sometimes are em- 

 ployed to secure coral heads in shallow waters 

 of the tropics. Minute marine animals are found 

 in and about most forms of coral. 



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