GENERAL ACCOUNT OF THE SCIENTIFIC WORK OF 

 THE VELERO III IN THE EASTERN PACIFIC 



A Ten-Year List of the Velero III Collecting Stations 



The Velero III has now been in use for Pacific Exploration for ten 

 years. A list of the collecting stations occupied during these ten years, 

 with appropriate data concerning these, is here presented. 



The information supplied is a compilation of data, the basis for which 

 has been supplied by the officers of the ship and various members of the 

 Pacific Expeditions. The officers have provided exact geographic positions 

 (latitude and longitude) and depths, in many cases, particularly in the 

 last three years. The Expedition members have made note of positions, 

 depths, and types of bottom, as well as other items of interest very neces- 

 sary in making up the list. 



Of these Expedition members, Mr. John Garth, of the Foundation 

 staff, who has been on all the longer cruises, Mr. Fred Ziesenhenne, also 

 of the Foundation staff, who has been on nearly all the cruises, and Dr. 

 Waldo L. Schmitt, of the National Museum staff, who has been on 

 several of them, have provided the greater proportion of the information, 

 without which the list could not have been compiled. 



The primary objective of the Pacific Expeditions has been marine 

 biological investigation, and it is with this investigation that this list of 

 stations is almost entirely concerned. 



Most of the stations, especially in the later years, have been dredging 

 stations, although stations where shore collecting has been done are 

 numerous. In many instances members of a shore party have made obser- 

 vations on terrestrial fauna and flora, but seldom has any of these obser- 

 vations been given a station number, unless collections definitely associated 

 with marine investigation were made. 



A smaller number of stations represents dipping by using the cargo light 

 at night, when the ship was at anchor, diving, seining, et cetera. Much 

 fishing has been done for taxonomic and life history work, and for work 

 on fish parasites, but ordinarily the fish boat wanders too far afield to 

 place it with a station number. 



The Velero III exploration is not confined to biological investigation. 

 Observations in physical and chemical oceanography, in geology, and in 

 sedimentation have been made, but the stations occupied, although they 

 have been given numbers, are not included in this list. Ethnology has been 



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