AT-(0'4^-3) -15 between the Botany Department of the University of Hawaii and 

 the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission. 



N031 . Primary productivity gathered in the Weetern South raclfic and 

 in the Gulf of Naples in the Mediterranean during the second half of 1957 • 

 This work was done with the cooperation of a great many individuals and 

 institutions from all over the world. It also represented part of the work 

 done by the Botany Department of the University of Hawaii on National Science 

 Foundation grant G-3833 and on U. S, Atomic Energy Commis?icn contract A^- (G^-3) -15 , 

 The principal investigators were Maxwell S, Doty and Meng Sung Jjoty , 



The dates can be used to recognize the data obtained by the help of the 

 following. The standard Hawaii technique was used except as indicated below. 



25 June - ^ July: Sampling between Hawaii and Sydney,. Australia,, aboard 

 the Pacific & Orient Steamship Lines vessel^ ORSOVA . The "*" to 

 the right of technique column 39 was entered for values obtained 

 when the incubator temperature ran, at times, over '^O" C. 



5-28 July: Data gathered at the GSIRO's marine laboratory at tronullaj. 

 New South Wales, at the invitation cf George Humphrey. Its director, 

 and sampling by Norman Dyson, off Eden, New South Wales, and sampling 

 off Sydney from the DERWENT HUNTER cruises May 1957 and June 1957. 

 Field work was handled by H. R. Jitts - while E, J. Ferguson-Wood 

 and Norman Dyson aided in the laboratory work. An "^-^" to the right 

 of technique column 39 indicates ths samples were collected at the 

 times indicated; but carried ashore in acid-cleaned sample bottles 

 and incubated from about 09:00 to 14:00 at 14° C. 



29 - 31 July: Samples gathered in the lower part cf_, and outside Storm 

 Bay^ Tasmania, by Dick Andrews and orocesaei in Eric Guiler's 

 Zoology Department Laboratory at the University of Tasmania. Hobart. 

 The samples were collected and held approximately 10 hours in acid- 



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