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ciently large (90 feet in length and 17 in beam) to be depended upon in 
all weather; it is light in draft and when necessary can be taken into 
water shallower than 4 feet; its gasoline engines take up relatively small 
space and there thus remains plenty of room for collecting operations; 
its equipment includes various forms of trawls and dredges and_ the 
mechanical appliances which will enable them to be used in all waters 
to a depth of about 200 fathoms. Particular effort will be made to 
increase the Museum’s collection of fishes from the rich fauna of the 

THE FABBRI YACHT ‘“ TEKLA ”’’ 
semitropical waters, and colored drawings of the fishes, moving pictures 
and, in the case of the larger kinds, plaster casts will be secured. Saw- 
fish are not uncommon in Florida waters and it is hoped that good speci- 
mens of them may be caught. Effort will also be made to obtain a large 
specimen of the devil-fish, Manta, which sometimes attains a spread of 
20 feet. ‘Tarpon are readily taken in the waters to be visited and ample 
material will be brought back for a “habitat group.” Mr. John 'T. 
Nichols, Assistant in the Department of Ichthyology, left the Museum 
January 18 to join the ‘*Tekla”’ at Miami and will spend six weeks in 
the collecting work. 
