OCEANOGRAPHY 1961— PHASE 3 



FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 1961 



House of Representatives, 

 subcommitee on oceanography of the 

 Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, 



Washington^ D.C. 



The subcommittee met at 10 a.m., pursuant to call, room 219, Old 

 House Office Building, Hon. John D. Dingell (acting chairman) 

 presiding. 



Present : Representatives Pelly and Lennon. 



Staff members present : John M. Drev^i^, chief counsel, Paul S. 

 Bauer (staff consultant). 



Mr. Dingell. The committee will be in order. 



The first witness this morning will be Dr. Leonard Carmichael, the 

 Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. 



Doctor, we are very happy to welcome you to the committee this 

 morning but before you testify I would like to make a brief remark 

 or two. 



By testimony before this committee, eminent biologists indicated 

 their unanimous concern for the deterioration of our national position 

 in taxonomy and systematics of aquatic biological life. 



With a view to correct this apparent slippage in our aquatic scien- 

 tific program, H.R. 4276 contains proposed legislative assistance. 



Inasmuch as the Smithsonian Institution and its National Museum 

 is the repository of all Government collections and has associated 

 with it a staff of outstanding scientists, it was considered that the 

 Smithsonian should be the logical agency to give the necessary spark 

 to this important program. 



We shall hear from Dr. Leonard Carmichael, the able and outstand- 

 ing Secretary of the Smithsonian, then from Dr. Hiden Cox, Director 

 of the American Institute of Biological Sciences and finally the Hon- 

 orable Robert M. Paul, special assistant to the Assistant Secretary 

 for Fish and Wildlife, Department of Interior. 



We had hoped to hear from Dr. Juan Rivero, director of the Insti- 

 tute of Marine Sciences of the University of Puerto Rico but we 

 learned yesterday afternoon that he would be unable to come. 



I want to welcome and thank you for your appearance and courtesy 

 to this committee in being with us this morning. 



Do you have any members of your staff with you that you would 

 like to introduce to the committee ? 



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