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The Smithsonian Institution has a particular responsibility for 

 marine biology, involving the collection and investigation of marine 

 organisms and populations from a general zoological point of view. 

 The Smithsonian maintains the national collections, and they are 

 important to our national understanding of the taxonomy and the 

 ecology of the kihds of organisms in the populations in the sea. (See 

 chart 10.) 



Chart 10 



Smithsonian Institution 

 Investigation of Marine Populations 



The State Department, of course, is responsible for our foreign 

 affairs in this field, as in others, and particularly for the U.S. partici- 

 pation in various international programs, which include the support 

 of the various international fisheries commissions dealing with the 

 management of the world's fish and marine resources. (See chart 11.) 



Chart 11 



State Department 



United States' Participation in International Programs 

 Support of International Fisheries Commissions 



Agency for International Development. 



The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has taken on 

 the role of investigating the feasibility of doing useful and important 

 jobs in oceanography using space technology developed as part of its 

 maj or program in the Federal Government. (See chart 12. ) 



Chart 12 

 National Aeronautics and Space Administration 

 Feasibility of Oceanography From Space 



I would now like to turn to some discussion of the laboratories which 

 are operated by the Federal establishment and which support the 

 research in marine sciences. To keep the laboratory charts from be- 

 coming cluttered we have arbitrarily divided them into Defense 

 Department laboratories and non-Defense laboratories, a useful divi- 

 sion for charting purposes. The first chart is the Department of 

 Defense oceanographic laboratories or laboratories that have as a 

 major portion of their mission marine and oceanographic scientific 

 research requirements and oceanographic technological requirements. 

 (See chart 13.) 



I think this is one occasion where you will be able to deal with the 

 chart better by referring to the small-scale version before you than 

 by looking at the large-scale version, which might be difficult to read. 

 Most of these laboratories are naval laboratories. They generally have 

 naval development and warfare missions as well as requirements to 

 do oceanographic research and marine technology development con- 

 nected with those missions. 



