118 FOUNDERS OF OCEANOGRAPHY 



Professor Kof oid, of the University of California, who acted 

 as one of his scientific assistants on his last great Pacific 

 expedition, writes : " The oceanographer of the future will 

 acknowledge his great debt to this the greatest of explorers of 

 the sea. His explorations carried him over 100,000 miles of 

 voyaging in tropical seas, principally in the Caribbean and 

 about its adjacent islands, in the Indian Ocean, and especially 

 in the tropical Pacific. It is safe to say that his expeditions 

 mapped more lines across deep-sea basins and made more 

 deep-sea soundings than all other scientific expeditions 

 combined." 



