50 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 66 
1915, in the Danish West Indies, under the auspices of the Carnegie 
Institution of Washington, D. C., securing collections of corals and 
other marine invertebrates. 
The collecting was done in the open water, bays, and channels at 
St. Thomas, St. John, and St. James. The deeper waters were 
explored by means of dredging from a motor boat, while native 
divers, working from the heavy West Indian row boats, were used 
for collecting in the shallow waters. In addition to this, much shore 
Fic. 72—Drift Bay, Danish West Indies, where many fine corals and sponges 
were collected. 
collecting was done. Owing to the very strong and constant trade 
wind, work on the exposed reefs was in many cases made impossible 
by the heavy surf. Collecting in the protected bays, however, was 
most successful, as a great variety of bottom was to be found in 
many of them. 
While the chief aim of the expedition was to secure as complete 
a representation of the coral fauna as possible—and this aim met 
with considerable success—fine collections of other marine inverte- 
brates were also obtained, including protozoa, sponges, hydroids, 
medusze, alcyonarians, anemones, bryozoans, starfish, sea urchins, 
