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WHAT OF THE FUTURE? 



There have been no serious outbreaks since 1954. If history were 

 repeated, then public interest would die and research would be 

 dropped. But this time there is a committee watchful of the citizens' 

 interests to guard the future. The U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service 

 may continue to probe the needs of "Jim Brevis," and the cooperating 

 group from Miami may be able to extend its method of prediction 

 so as to forecast the time and place of the next outbreak in order to 

 stop it before it starts. 



Already there are indications that a knowledge of tidal movements 

 will play a part in this. Information from the Miami field station 

 at Boca Grande and from the hard-working research ship Gerda, 

 combined with the facts growing from the Fish and Wildlife Service 

 studies, may in. the not too distant future bring about a sure control 

 of the plague of Florida's west coast, the red tide. 



Reprints of the various articles in this Report may be obtained, as long 

 as the supply lasts, on request addressed to the Editorial and Publications 

 Division, Smithsonian Institution, Washington 25, D, C. 



