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the range just indicated; nor is it likely that the Institution will 

 continue to op-^rate the Carneaie as an oceanographic research ship 

 after the summer of 1931. But the Carnegie Institution has offered 

 to put the ship, for a term of years, at the disposal of the Scripps 

 Institution if the latter can raise funds for her running expenses. 

 And it may De taken for granted that the Carnegie Institution would 

 gladly correlate its work with any gen^^iral program of oceanographic 

 study that might be developed in kaievioa.. The oceanographic activi- 

 ties of the Tortugas Laboratory are mentioned on Page 



Clark U niversity has recently arranged for the installation of 

 re'^ordine: thermographs on steamers running on commercial routes in 

 the Atlantic. And while; the immediate purpose here is climatologic , 

 not oceanographic, the continuous record of surface temperature now 

 being obtained ia an important addition to present knowledge of 

 secular fluctuations in thr parts of the ocean beiner covered. 



Th^, Mu seum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University, from 

 its foundation in 1859, has held Oceanography as on; of the major 

 fields of activity; by inheritance and tradition this is equally true 

 today. Its present participation in active exploration is touched on 

 above (page ^V), and its cooperation in this respect with the U. 3. 

 Bureau of Fisheries and with the U. S. Coast Guard (through thtj Ice 

 Patrol), has long been most happy. There remains to be mentioned the 

 service of its oceanographic laboratories as neadquarters for the 

 study of the plankton collections and for the synthesis for the physi- 

 cal and chemical data collected on the p-riodic cruises in the north- 

 western Atlantic just mentioned (page 97). Here ard being worked up 

 recent explorations in the- Pacific; the studies of the Bureau of 

 Fisheries on the voluntary and involuntary migrations of the ood 

 based on the tagging experim;^nts, and other studies on the biology of 

 fishes; the dynamic analysis of the waters of the Grand Banks area by 

 the Ice Patrol; -:nd the results of the Museum's own recent Atlantic 

 expeditions. Studi'ss of subraarin; sediments ar.- also being carried 

 on in the Museum, stimulated by improvements in the methods of 

 collection that make it possible to obtain long cores in deep water. 



The New York Zoological Society , through its Bepartment of 

 Tropical Research, is headquarters for the preparation and publica- 

 tion of the reports on the collections brought in by the "Arcfcurus" 

 expedition, and for Bermudan explorations carried on during the 

 summer of 1923. 



The only present oceanographic project sponsored by Princ eton 

 University is its cooperation during the summer of 1928 with the 

 Buffalo Society of Natural History in studies of submarine sedimenta- 

 tion in the region of the Bahamas. 



Active participation by the Smithsonian Institution in Oceano- 

 graphy, is through the National Museum , several of whose staff are 

 concerned in the biologic aspect of oceanographic problems, though 

 the researches carri'^d on in the Museum are chiefly taxonomic. At 

 present the Museum does not, of its own initiative carry on Oceano- 

 graphic exploration; nor does it m.aintain ships for the purpose. 



The Washington office of the United States Coast and Geodetic 

 Survey is the headquarters for the study of tidal currents near shore 

 and for the charting of the topography of the bottom froin the coast- 



