Dr. Murphy is curator of oceanic birds in the American Museum 

 of Natural History, New York. He has conducted a number of 

 expeditions: in 1912-1913 into the tropical and sub-Antarctic 

 Atlantic Ocean with South Georgia as the goal; in 1915 to Lower 

 California; and in 1919-1920 and 1924-1925 to the western coast of 

 South America. He is the author of " Bird Islands of Peru," New 

 York, 1925, and numerous articles on South Georgia and its life 

 which include "A Desolate Island of the Antarctic {Amer. Museum 

 Journ., Vol. 13, 1913) and "South Georgia, An Outpost of the Ant- 

 arctic" {Natl. Geogr. Mag., Vol. 41, 1922). "The Oceanography 

 of the Peruvian Littoral With Reference to the Abundance and 

 Distribution of Marine Life" {Geogr. Rev., \'ol. 13, 1923) and "Ocean- 

 ic and Climatic Phenomena Along the West Coast of South America 

 During 1925" {Geogr. Rev., Vol. 16, 1926) bear on his South Ameri- 

 can work. 



