instruments and showed us how to use them, but also gave us valu- 

 able advice in all our preparations. As yet it is hard to say exactly 

 what was accomplished. Some forty oceanographic stations were 

 made. Unfortunately not more than twenty-five of these were in the 

 Labrador current itself, so that in this phase of our work we found 

 out just enough to wish we knew more. However, a fairly complete 

 picture of the water conditions in White Bay, Newfoundland, was 

 secured and the two widely separated sections of the Labrador cur- 

 rent show that warm water lays closer to the coast than had been 

 previously thought and the strength of the current itself is not in- 

 shore, but about fifty miles out. The other branches of our work were 

 perhaps more satisfactory. The many bottles of plankton collected 

 give a fairly complete picture of the miscroscopic life in the waters 

 of this region. The tank of salmon and char have been examined by 

 Dr. Kendall of the Bureau of Fisheries and he seems satisfied that 

 something has been added to our knowledge of the distribution of 

 the larger fish in the northern streams. Collections of cod were also 

 made from time to time during the summer and these are of inter- 

 est as previously nothing had been known about the kind of cod 

 caught north of Cape Mugford. And finally, but not by any means 

 least, the collection of plants and flowers has shown the presence of 

 new forms, and extends the range of forms already known into a 

 corner of the world previously unexplored. 



To my mind the most important single result of all our work was 

 not connected with our scientific observations. We proved beyond a 

 shadow of a doubt that it is possible to carry out serious investiga- 

 tion in the ocean in a small boat. The "Chance" could be made to 

 lay almost still during the difficult process of taking subsurface 

 temperatures and soundings, or by the proper trimming of the sails 

 we could tow plankton nets at any desired speed. Previously 

 oceanographic work has only been accomplished at great expense 

 both because of the use of large boats and because of professional 

 crews. In the "Chance," because of the design of the boat, we were 



