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Interior) was responsible for the loan of valuable oceanographic equip- 

 ment used in surveying the Humboldt Current in 1934. 



Again it is desired to call attention to the valuable assistance of the 

 San Diego Zoological Society under the late Dr. Harry W. Wegeforth 

 and the valuable assistance of the California Academy of Sciences at San 

 Francisco, for doing so much to initiate the scientific work of the Velero 

 III in the Eastern Pacific. 



Under ordinary circumstances personal acknowledgments would 

 loom large in a publication such as this; but, as all the obligations that 

 there may be depend upon the good will of those directly associated with 

 the Allan Hancock Foundation, it may be well to call this an All- 

 Foundation product rather than to credit individually the workers who 

 have made it possible. 



