BARBADOS-ANTIGUA EXPEDITION 25 
At Antigua the fishermen were less energetic and the supply 
furnished us not adequate to our needs. 
Turtle meat was occasionally available and cheap. Some of 
the party seemed to have a prejudice against this excellent 
meat, however, although they liked it when it first appeared 
upon our table as ‘‘veal.’’ Chicken (or ‘‘fowls’’ in the Angli- 
cised version) were only occasionally to be had and so small 
that one of them would hardly make a man a meal. Eggs were 
abundant and considerably cheaper by the dozen than at home. 
Their diminutive size, however, made them really hardly less 
expensive than in the United States. 
The Committee on Laboratory, with Dr. Job as chairman, had 
the task of organizing a novel experiment in the way of devis- 
ing a temporary laboratory for a month’s work in each place. 
All other expeditions from the University had devoted their 
energies to the collecting of material, together with field notes 
and observations on living forms in their natural surroundings. 
It was our purpose to be prepared for regular laboratory work 
with suitable equipment for research not heretofore carried by 
similar expeditions. For this purpose not only microscopes, 
both compound and dissecting, together with ordinary dissect- 
ing tools and reagents; but special methods of keeping marine 
forms alive and under observation, together with equipment for 
experimental work and special histological operations, had to 
be thought out. 
It was hoped to do a good deal of this sort of work with fishes, 
echinoderms, ete. of the larger sorts. A live-car was therefore 
planned that it was thought would be of great use. It was 
found, however, that most of the fishes were secured by the use 
of fish-pots which were necessarily placed some distance from 
our laboratory, and their contents were almost always dead or 
dying before they could be brought in and put in the live-car. 
This car was made of wire netting on a strong wooden frame 
and was divided into three compartments each opening by a 
door at the top. It cost an unconscionably high price at Bar- 
bados and. proved too large and cumbersome to transport to 
Antigua. It must be confessed, therefore, that it was not a 
brilliant success. 
A considerable quantity of glassware for temporary aquaria 
