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INTERNATIONAL ASPECTS OF OCEANOGRAPHY 



Equipment: Scientific equipment, boats both motor 



and rowboats, laboratory, library, mess hall, and 



dormitory. 

 Staff: Scientific: Director, Dr. Herbert F. Prytherch. 



Technical and clerical: 1. Maintenance and 



operation: 5. 

 Provisions for visiting investigators: Dormitory rooms 



and laboratory facilities. 

 Income: Source: United States Government. 



Amount: $13,000. 

 Provision for publication of results: United State.s 



Government Printing Office. 



Rhode Island 



Marine Biological Laboratory of Rhode Island 

 State College ('37) 



History or origin: Made possible by an appropriation 

 of $8,000.00 in December, 1936, for the construc- 

 tion and equipping of a laboratory for the study 

 of Narragansett Bay and adjacent waters. 

 Location: At Fort Kearney (Old South Ferry). 

 The War Department has granted the use of land 

 and a dock. 

 Organization to which attached: It will function as a 

 division of the Department of Zoology of Rhode 

 Island State College. 

 Purposes: Scientific investigation of marine problems 



in Rhode Island waters. 

 Scope of activities: There will be no restriction in the 

 scope of the work which can be carried on, so 

 long as it is marine in nature. 



At the present time two programs are being 



carried on: (a) A study of the biology of the 



zooplankton population, (b) A continuation 



of an investigation on the biology of the 



starfi.sh in Narragansett Bay — carried on 



during the past year under the auspices of 



the Federal Bureau of Fisheries and the State 



Department of Fish and Game. 



Equipment: The laboratory will be fully equipped 



for oceanographic work in coastal waters. The 



present appropriation provides $1,300.00 for field 



gear and $810.00 for laboratory equipment. 



$850.00 is available for vessel hire (three months). 



Staff: The staff will consist of a director (Charles J. 



Fish) and an investigator who will receive a salary. 



In addition an assistant will be appointed at a 



salary of $80.00 per month during the summer 



period. This staff will be supplemented from 



time to time by voluntary investigators. 



Provisions for visiting investigators: The laboratory 



will have three private rooms and space for 

 twelve investigators in the central room. Visiting 

 investigators will be welcome to utihze available 

 facilities but must provide any special equipment 

 needed. 



Income: The work will be maintained by annual 

 state appropriation by the state to the college. 

 An appropriation of $5,000.00 for the coming fiscal 

 year is expected. 



Provision for publication of results: As yet no provi- 

 sion has been made for publication of results. 



EASTERN SOUTH AMERICA 



Various attempts to procure information on insti- 

 tutions engaged in oceanographic work in the Latin 

 American countries met with very little success. 

 A reply was received only from the Brazilian Servigo 

 de Caga e Pesca and from Mexico. Therefore, for 

 other countries, dependence had to be placed on the 

 Year-Book for 1937 of the International Hydro- 

 graphic Bureau and such notes as could be found in 

 publications. Apparently there are hydrographic 

 services under the Ministries of War and Marine in 

 Colombia, Cuba, and Venezuela, but, except ad- 

 dresses in the Year-Book above mentioned, no in- 

 formation is available on them. 



The article referred to below' discusses the pro- 

 visions for fisheries investigations in the Americas 

 and emphasizes the paucity of such investigations in 

 Latin America. Only three countries are mentioned 

 in this connection, Brazil, Uraguay, and Mexico. A 

 statement on Brazil of later date than Professor 

 Beltran's article is given on a subsequent page of 

 this catalogue and there is also a note on Argentina. 

 Two paragraphs (p. 12) read as follows: 



"En el Uruguay existe establecido un Instituto de 

 Pesca que, dedicado fundamentalmente a investiga- 

 ciones cientlficas, se ocupa tambifen de actividades 

 industriales y comerciales, tales como la fabricaci6n de 

 hielo (para establecimientos del Gobierno y venta a 

 particulares) y el arrendamiento de cdmaras frigorificas. 



"En Mfexico, el autor de este artlculo logr6 estableoer, 

 dependiente de la Secretarid de Agricultura y Fomento 

 (Direcci6n de Estudios Biol6gicos), la Estaci6n de 

 Biologia Marina del Golfo que, bajo su direcci6n, fun- 

 cion6 en el puerto de Veracruz en los ailos de 1926-27, 

 siendo descontinuada despufis por nece.sidades de cardc- 

 ter econ6mico, cuando prometia los mds halagadorea 

 frutos de sus actividades." 



' Beltrdn, Enrique, Estudios de biologia marina y pesca 

 en las Americas: Uni6n Panamer., ser. Fin., Indust., y 

 Comer., Bol. No. 73, pp. 12, Marzo, 1933. 



