SEA GRANT COLLEGES 173 



work in this field as ^Ye have iii many others, to help provide the 

 kind of education that is needed. 



I believe that together with these educational activities should go 

 hand in hand a research component at the university in which the 

 faculty and the graduate students would be involved, just as we have 

 in the other fields. I think this is necessary in order to have univer- 

 sities serve as centers for creating new knowledge and new tech- 

 niques and new ways of doing things in the oceans, and in order that 

 they can better educate people at all levels, both the ones who are in 

 for a 2-year course and those who are going through to the doctor's 

 degree m marine engineering, let us say. 



Senator Pell. Well, I thank you. 



Senator Murphy, do j^ou have any further questions ? 



Senator Murphy. No. 



Senator Pell. I just repeat my point, that I never heard of a Gov- 

 ermnent agency not wanting to administer a program, and I guess 

 this is not an exception to it. 



Thank you very much, Dr. Robertson. 



Senator Pell. The next wntness is Dr. Sidney Galler, Assistant 

 Secretary for Science, Smithsonian Institution. 



Dr. Galler, I see you have a short statement here. Will you proceed 

 as you will? 



Dr. Galler. Mr. Chairman, the Secretary of the Smithsonian In- 

 stitution sends his regrets that an out-of-town commitment prevents 

 him from being here, and with your permission, I would like to read 

 this rather short statement from him. 



STATEMENT OF HON. S. DILLON RIPLEY, SECRETARY OF THE 

 SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, AS PRESENTED BY DR. SIDNEY 

 GALLER, ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR SCIENCE, SMITHSONIAN 

 INSTITUTION 



Dr. Galler. The idea of injecting scholarship into the marine re- 

 sources field is a sound one. 



The challenges are many to lure students into this unexplored field. 

 They can receive inspiration and become productive through legisla- 

 tion along the lines of this act. 



The Smithsonian Institution is deeply involved in studies of the 

 ocean. We are interested in such fundamental problems as the kinds, 

 populations, and distributions of plants and animals in the sea. Thus, 

 this proposed bill is of great interest to us. It could represent a 

 major step forward in learning about the biology of marine forms of 

 life, and utilizing this knowledge for improved management for 

 husbandry of our marine resources. 



In 1838-42 the Wilkes Expedition was sent to the southern oceans 

 to study the occurrences and populations of harvestable whales. Cap- 

 tain Wilkes recognized that one could not study whales without know- 

 ing mucli more about the seas in which they liA'^e. He collected 

 potential whale foods; he sampled the enviromnent to find out wliy 

 whales occurred where they did. At the time when Senator Justin 

 Smith Morrill's first Land Grant College Act was passed in 1862, the 

 fledgling Smithsonian Institution had just taken over, hi 1858, the 

 Wilkes Expedition collections to study them and to retain them for 

 reference by future generations of scientists and scholars. 



