MAJOR CRUISES of the Velero III to the Gulf of 

 California and eastern Pacific regions, ranging 

 from California to the southern limits of Peru, 

 are depicted in accompanying year by year 

 charts. Dotted lines indicate the courses, and 

 arrows the direction of travel. Cruises represent 

 approximately four hundred and fifty days at 

 sea, one hundred and fifteen of them in the 

 Galapagos Archipelago. Scientists and collec- 

 tors from larger institutions of learning in the 

 United States have been afforded every oppor- 

 tunity to improve their knowledge of the flora 

 and fauna of the eastern Pacific on these ex- 

 tended voyages. The spring cruise of 1939 was 

 routed through the Panama Canal and along 

 the shores of Colombia and Venezuela as far as 

 Trinidad and Tobago Islands, marking the first 

 voyage into the Caribbean Sea. On the latter 

 expedition the Velero III flew the pennant of the 

 University of Southern California from her main 

 truck. 



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