REPORT ON THE MARINE RESEARCH WORK OF THE ALLAN 

 HANCOCK FOUNDATION 



By John F. Kessel, School of Medicine, Los Angeles 



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The biological survey of the Eastern Pacific from San Francisco to 

 San Juan Bay, Peru, which has been due to the able assistance and co- 

 operation of Captain Hancock with his"Velero HI," has established 

 to date approximately 1,650 shore and dredging stations. This work is 

 shallow water on the whole with the major part being done in depths 

 under 100 fathoms. Much time has been consumed in getting the large 

 collections properly housed in Hancock Hall, in negotiating and trans- 

 ferring to the Pacific Coast the taxonomic reference library of the Boston 

 Society of Natural History, and the training of advanced graduate 

 students to begin the study for taxonomic monographs of the faunas 

 and floras of the area. Eighty-two separate reports, ranging from 

 descriptions of new species to monographs, have been published. 



Summary of Discussion 



Dr. Emery supplemented Dr. Kessel's general review with some 

 remarks of interest to marine geologists on the bottom sediments and 

 on the physiography of the area. He described a series of basins, eleven 

 in all, extending outwards beyond the coast, each with different bottom 

 depths and different grades of sediment. Those nearest the shore had 

 coarsest sediments and were widest and flattest, with increasing ir- 

 regularity and fineness of sedimentation on proceeding seawards. The 

 history of these basins was thought to be of importance in the interpre- 

 tation of the Los x\ngeles basin. W^ork was described on the intersection 

 of the salinity and temperature curves in the various basins, and the 

 sediments in the Los Angeles basin were stated to be of particular 

 importance from the point of view of oil prospecting. 



OCEANOGRAPHIC DE\'ELOPMENTS IN THE HAWAIIAN AREA 



By Robert W. Hiatt, University of Hawaii 



Historical Introduction 



It is my purpose to present a review of oceanography in the Hawaiian 

 area and to examine critically impending developments which, for the 

 first time in our history, portend concentrated analyses of a locaHzed, 

 subtropical island area. 



Oceanography as a science had its inception in Hawaii one hundred 

 and seventy years ago when Captain Cook and his staff of scientists visited 

 the Archipelago near the end of the eighteenth century. For the next 

 half-century a series of notable explorers and investigators visited Hawaii 

 and returned to Europe with collections of the flora and fauna and copious 

 notes on hydrographic features of interest to mariners. The first intensive 

 investigation was made by Americans of the U.S. Exploring Expedition 

 of 1838-42. This was followed by the first great oceanographic 

 expedition to circumnavigate the globe, the " Challenger " Expedition 

 of 1873-76. In 1902 the U.S. Fish Commission steamer " Albatross " 

 visited Hawaii for the primary purpose of investigating the deeper 

 waters about the Archipelago. Thus, although the waters reach great 



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