
BARBADOS-ANTIGUA EXPEDITION 61 
excellent appetites to the table. After lunch we occupied our- 
selves in examining and caring for the catch of the morning, 
including the hasty identification of specimens. Ordinarily, we 
did not attempt to identify species, but located them in the 
general zoological groups to which they belonged. ‘Then the 
notes had to be written up and proper record made of the day’s 
doings. 
When a dredging party or boat employing a diver returned, 
the material was generally brought first to a table where the 
director made a hasty preliminary examination and rough notes 
of the assemblage of forms were secured. These were then divided 
into the larger zoological groups and at once taken to the work 
tables of the specialists to whom these groups had been as- 
signed. Here they were divided into smaller groups and a hasty 
attempt at identification was made, color notes taken, and the 
specimens put into permanent preservatives or started on the 
process of killing, hardening, etc., as a preliminary to perman- 
ent preservation. In some cases they were handed over alive 
to Wehman to be sketched in their natural colors or to Ricker 
to be photographed before killing. Occasionally they were 
photographed by the motion picture camera to show their 
activities and for future analysis of their movements. Labora- 
tory specimens were handed over to Dr. Job for his aquaria 
or for speciai preparation for histological examination. 
When any of the workers on special groups found features of 
unusual interest or species apparently new, they were reported to 
the director for record. They also reported the names of species 
which they were able to identify offhand. Hach member of the 
party kept a separate record of his or her special work, such as 
eolor notes, observations on living forms, ete. Of course all of 
the dredged material was dead before it reached the laboratory 
and only the shallow water and low-tide collections were avail- 
able for life studies. 
By the time these matters were attended to we were about 
ready to call it a day’s work. The evenings were usually spent 
in resting. Many of us got into the habit of gathering in front 
of the quarters occupied by the married folks and ladies and 
talking about our work or previous experiences, or in singing 
