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The first Johnson-Smithsonian Deep-Sea Ex- 

 pedition resulted in a series of soundings and 

 dredging stations. In addition to the soundings, 

 it should be stated that with every dredging 

 station soundings were made at very short inter- 

 vals, gaining a complete contour of the ground 

 covered during each haul. These have been 

 plotted and will be published in the final report. 

 In addition to the physical and chemical data, 

 we obtained some 2,000 tubes, jars, and tanks 

 full of specmiens, which haxe been distributed 

 to the various specialists for report. 



Plans have been made for the creation of a new 

 winch constructed on entirely new lines, which 

 will carry 15 miles of stranded wire cable, three 

 spools of 5 miles each, J, §, and f inch. This 

 winch contains specially controlled devices which 

 should prove useful when the instrument used 

 becomes snagged on the bottom. 



The first effort is to be followed by others, of 

 which the next one is scheduled to be in the Puerto 

 Rican Deep, completing that research. This 

 began January, 1935. 

 Location: The shore work was conducted at the 

 Smithsonian Institution and its branches. The 

 yacht's home port is Brooklyn, New York. 

 Organization to which attached: Smithsonian In- 

 stitution. 

 Purposes: Physics, chemistry, and biology of the sea. 

 Scope of activities: Systematic research on collec- 

 tions which include extensive series representing 

 the life of the sea. 

 Equipment: The yacht and the shore facilities of the 



Smithsonian Institution. 

 Staff on the First Cruise: 



Scientists: Director, Paul Bartsch; Parasitologist, 

 E. W. Price; Physicist, Townsend Brown; 

 Manager of equipment, E. R. Fenimore John- 

 son ; Assistant Zoologist, Charles Weber. 

 Technical and clerical: Artist, Elie Cheverlange; 

 Photographer, G. R. Goergens; Dredging Mas- 

 ter, John Mills; Winch Master, W. J. Kennedy; 

 Secretary, Anthony Wilding. 

 Guests: Mr. and Mrs. Leon Douglass; Miss Ena 

 Douglass; Miss Florence Douglass; Dr. George 

 Derby. 

 Provisions for visiting investigators: Good. 

 Income: Expedition financed personally by Mr. 



Eldridge R. Johnson. 

 Provision for the publication of results: Smithsonian 

 Miscellaneous collections. 



Marine Division, United States Weather 

 Bureau ('37) 



History or origin: Origin, as a Government project, 

 goes back to Lieutenant M. F. Maury's justly 

 famous researches and collections of data, be- 

 ginning 1850, under the United States Navy. 

 The work of collecting and compiling marine 

 meteorological data was kept up by the U. S. 

 Signal Service from 1871 until 1887, when it was 

 transferred to the Hydrographic Office of the 

 Navy, where it remained until 1904. The 

 Marine Division of the Weather Bureau was 

 established to handle the work in 1904, in coopera- 

 tion with the Hydrographic Office. The Act 

 of June 16, 1910, clarified the field of cooperation 

 between these two offices, in mamtaining a pro- 

 gram of Government activity in the field of marine 

 meteorology. In 1913 the Marine Division was 

 discontinued, and the work became an adjunct 

 of the Climatological Service until 1920, when 

 the Marine Division was restored. Separate 

 status has since been maintained, until now 

 (1936) there are ten employees on the staff of the 

 Marine Division in Washington, and a variable 

 number of field station employees giving full or 

 part-time to the marine meteorological project. 



Location: At the Weather Bureau Central Office, 

 24th and M Streets, N. W., Washington, D. C. 



Organization to ivhich attached: Weather Bureau, 

 United States Department of Agriculture. 



Purposes: To foster accurate, uniform and coordi- 

 nated observation of the weather over the oceans ; 

 and to collect, organize, and as far as possible 

 digest the results from such a program of marine 

 meteorological work, for the benefit of commerce, 

 navigation, and science. 



Scope of activities: Ships of all nationalities are 

 enlisted for co6perati\'e reporting of their weather 

 observations; methods of observation and in- 

 strumental equipment are as far as possible 

 supervised, with the object of attaining good 

 standards of accuracy in the results of observa- 

 tion; printed information as to good method, 

 and also carrying summaries of results of the 

 ocean weather program, prepared and dissemi- 

 nated; records are gathered promptly and fully 

 organized and are filed in permanent archives; 

 material from ships' observations is combined 

 with land stations' reports to prepare a continuuig 

 series of daily .synoptic weatlier charts for the 

 northern hemisphere which is of the greatest 



