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IV. That the drafters of this bill call upon "iiulexinj? experts" from the De- 

 partment of Agriculture, professional biological swiotica and private industry 

 to testify upon the problems of setting up an electronic indexing system, 



OTHER COMMENTS CONCERNING THE BHX 



Ais a private citizen and research scientist, I would like to reaffirm my ap- 

 proval of and faith in the practices and principles of the kind of Federal 

 financial support given through the National Science Foundation. I heartily 

 support and further urge that as much responsibility as possible for the admin- 

 istering of basic research funds, as authorized by bill S. 2092, be done through 

 the National Science Foundation, and that funds for applied research, com- 

 mercial fisheries military research, navigational improvements, etc., be admin- 

 istered by other appropriate agencies. 



I understand from casual conversations that the National Science Foundation 

 may not be too happy about the formation of a new and special Division of 

 Marine Sciences. This is because such a Division would cut across many of 

 the basic divisions of sciences and the general organization of the NSF. I trust 

 pressures of those looking through the oceanographic telescope will not hamper 

 the broader wisdom and functions of the NSF as a whole. 



I have also heard the question from several oceanographers and marine biolo- 

 gists, "where are we going to get the scientists to man 40 new rasearch ships 

 during the next 10 years?" Is our shipbuilding program too large? I take no 

 sides on this question, but merely point up the question. 



I do have one small, but concrete example, of how additional research vessels 

 (in the 300-ton class) could materially aid and encourage the vast amount of 

 present-day privately supported surveys of the shallow seas of the world. At 

 the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia we have begun a new scientific 

 journal which aims to survey, classify, and list all of the marine molhisks of the 

 Indo-Pacific oceans. Through the auspices of the Natural Science Foundation 

 of Pennsylvania and other private contributions we have put 10 major collecting 

 expeditions into the field in the last 5 years (New Guinea, Zanzibar, Ceylon, 

 Samoa, etc.). Three of these were aided by the use of a research vessel which, 

 because of financial difficulties, has now been abandoned. We plan at least 

 another dozen expeditions, supported by private funds, in the next 5 or 6 years. 

 If a research vessel owned and operated through naval or NSF grants could be 

 put into this area for our use, our private financial contributions would double 

 and assure our making much more rapid and more complete surveys of this 

 region. I am sure that other institutions, such as the Bishop Museum in Honolulu 

 and the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco could quadruple their 

 research on shallow water marine organisms if such small research vessels were 

 at their disposal. I am a firm believer that private and governmental money 

 for research should compliment, and not oppose, each other. 



List of the ranking institutions and museums in the United States which have 

 traditionally housed and preserved marine biological specimens during the past 

 century : 



Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (founded 1812). 



Allan Hancock Institute (Los Angeles) . 



American Museum of Natural History (New York) . 



California Academy of Sciences ( San Francisco ) . 



Chicago Museum of Natural History. 



B. P. Bishop Museum (Honolulu). 



Geological Museum, Stanford University. 



Museum of Comparative Zoology (Harvard University) . 



Paleontological Research Institute (Cornell University). 



U.S. National Museum (Washington. D.C.). 



Albert M. Linton, 



President. 



The Florida State University, 



Tallahassee, Decemher 11, 1960. 

 Mr. Warren G. Magnuson, 



Chair-man, Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, 

 U.S. Senate, New Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C. 



Dear Sir: I have read the bill (S. 2692) for advancement of marine sciences 

 with a great interest. I, working 15 years as a physical oceanographer after 

 graduation of a college, am particularly enthusiastic about the bill, not only 



