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gos en route to the Marquesas. An important contribution to the geology 

 of the region, by Chubb, appears in the Geological Magazine (London) 

 for 1925, and the Crossland report, stressing the marine ecology and coral 

 formations in the regions visited, appeared in the Transactions of the 

 Royal Society of Edinburgh for 1927. 



In 1929, Gifford Pinchot, in his trip to the South Seas, traveled 

 through the Pacific area from Panama to the islands of the South Seas, 

 with other scientists on board. In his book To the South Seas, he gives 

 some general information about the species (mostly terrestrial) to be 

 found in the Galapagos, but little new or of scientific interest concerning 

 the marine fauna. 



In 1930, the scientific portion of the Astor Expedition to the Galapa- 

 gos Islands, in the Nourmahal, was organized by C. H. Townsend, who 

 had for his assistants Kermit Roosevelt and Henry K. Svenson. The work 

 done was largely confined to Indefatigable Island. Birds, reptiles, insects, 

 and plants were collected, but there was no special marine investigation. 

 The general Report was published in the Bulletin of the New York Zo- 

 ological Society, in July, August, 1930. 



