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I really am not in a position to tell you precisely what they are 

 doing, but I have talked with a number of my colleagues over there 

 from time to time and within their limited resources I do believe they 

 are tiying to encourage the training of taxonomists. 



Mr. Rogers. I would think with the money they have, they could 

 certainly encourage some. 



Dr. Galler. I would think so. 



Mr. Rogers. Perhaps through this sea-grant college program. 



Dr. Galler. Yes, sir. 



Mr. Rogers. Any suggestions you have to direct to that problem 

 this committee would like to have. 



Dr. Galler. I can offer one suggestion, Mr. Chairman, and this is 

 not specifically addressed to the National Science Foundation, but at 

 present at least the Smithsonian Institution and a few other museums 

 throughout the country represent our major resource in taxonomic 

 research, and I believe that if additional scholarship or fellowship 

 funds could be made available to such institutions, it would be possible 

 to invite and encourage young people to come and work with our 

 faculty. 



Mr. Rogers. I think this ought to be developed. 



Let me ask you about a statement you made about rocks dredged 

 from the mid- Atlantic ridge. 



It is my feeling we should attack the study of the mid-Atlantic as 

 we did in hitting tlie moon. lentil we have some goal to develop the 

 technology to accomplish this, I think we will be floundering. 



What have you found from the little amount of work that has ac- 

 tually been done in the mid-Atlantic ridge? Are there any indications 

 of minerals there? Have you gone to that extent? 



Dr. Galler. I will haA'e to rely on Dr. Aron. 



Mr. Rogers. You might want to submit this for the record. 



Dr. Galler. We will be liappy to. 



Mr. Rogers. I think that would be lielpful. 



(The information follows:) 



Studies of Rocks from the Deep Sea 



The objectives of these studies are to find out what Ivinds of rocks make up 

 the mid-ocean sea floor, how they form, and what they imply about Earth history. 

 To date, three regions liave been examined, all on or near the mid-Atlantic Ridge : 

 22° N. latitude ; the Romanche Trench : and St. Peter and St. Paul Rocks and 

 vicinity. The preliminary results of these studies have been published and are 

 attached. The large number of co-authors on these papers shows the widespread 

 co-operation between Smithsonian scientists and scientists at private U.S. oceano- 

 graphic institutions. 



Contrary to rocks from the continents, we know very little about even the gross 

 distribution and kinds of rocks which make up the sea floor. Marine petrology 

 thus wijl continue to furnish numerous discoveries in the future. 



[Reprinted from Science, Mar. 24, 1967, vol. 155, No. 3769, pp. 1532-1535] 



St. Peteb and St. Paul Rocks : A High-Temperature, Mantle-Derived 



Intrusion 



Abstract. St. Paul's Rocks, often postulated to be an exposure of the suboceanic 

 mantle, consists of a wider variety of rocks than previously recognized. These 

 perhaps crystallised at different mantle levels, and were subsequently incor- 

 porated and mylomtized in a hot but solid intrusion 

 St. Peter and St. Paul Rocks (St. Paul's Rocks) are a tiny group of barren 



islets 80 km north of the equator and close to the axis of the mid-Atlantic Ridge 



