262 IOWA STUDIES IN NATURAL HISTORY 
The Annelids, Professor Aaron L. Treadwell of Vassar Col- 
lege ; 
The Actinians, Miss Gertrude Van Wagenen, State Univer- 
sity of Iowa; 
The Alcyonarians and Hydroids, Prof. C. C. Nutting, State 
University of Iowa; 
The Pentatomoidea, Dr. Dayton Stoner, State University of 
lowa; 
The Foramimfera will probably be reported on by Mr. H. J. 
Wehman ; 
The geological report, Prof. A. O. Thomas, State University 
of Iowa. 
The writer has greatly enjoyed the preparation of this narra- 
tive, recalling the numerous events of one of the most interest- 
ing and profitable experiences of his life as a naturalist. He 
finds that pleasant memories far outweigh the annoyances and 
perplexities that are woven together in the fabric of his story, 
the few sombre shades serving but to accentuate the brighter 
tints. It is an unusual and highly enjoyable experience to 
gather up the material that has been embodied in the zoological 
notes, and to roam as a free lance in fields apart from his own 
little corner of the science that treats of animal life. The 
specimens themselves recall the delightful environment in 
which they were found. To see things as they are in life with 
their proper surroundings; to be permitted to know them as 
sentient beings and not merely as museum and _ laboratory 
specimens, that are at best but the dead semblances of their 
real selves, is much to the zoologist. I still feel that the field 
naturalist has joys unknown to the laboratory worker and that 
he alone becomes truly acquainted with the real things in the 
living world. The occupants of a morgue are interesting, it is 
true, to the anatomist and pathologist, but how much more 
worth studying are human beings as living and active members 
of the social aggregation known as mankind. I therefore prize 
most highly the opportunity afforded by the Barbados-Antigua 
Expedition to roam at will over the greater part of the zoological 
field as represented by animal life in the tropics, and afterward 
