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to study and at times dissect the rich harvest of the cruise. It 
has been my privilege to note the high lights, to stop for a more 
eareful examination of particularly interesting forms and at 
times to look into their mechanism and make little discoveries 
that have the charm of novelty for me, although they may be 
known to specialists. To the teacher of zoology such an experi- 
ence is of inestimable value. I have been impressed for many 
years with the fact that we can teach more effectively about those 
things that we have seen and studied alive in their proper en- 
vironment, supplemented by laboratory work and the facilities 
afforded by a good zoological library. 
I feel strongly impelled to make an appeal for more general 
field work on the part of teachers and am sure that the author- 
ities of universities and colleges will make no mistake in de- 
voting a very considerable portion of their appropriations to 
such expeditions as I have herein described, thus affording a 
life-long stimulus to their instructors. 
I am grateful, too, to the members of the expedition who 
trusted themselves to the guidance of the director and loyally 
supported him, even at times when he may have seemed ar- 
bitrary and cranky. The trip was accompanied by unusual per- 
plexities and anxieties, sometimes dangers, and we would have 
been either more or less than human had we not occasionally 
_ been ‘‘set on a hair trigger’’ and about ready to explode. That 
there was no real explosion is to the credit of all concerned. 
None of us will ever forget the delightful way in which Hen- 
derson smoothed out ruffled feathers with his unfailing good na- 
ture and optimism. He is one of those fortunate persons who 
always seem able to stroke people the right way and dispel the 
grouchiest kind of a grouch. 
To the members of the executive committee, Thomas and 
Stoner, we owe much of our success. Thomas was simply ‘‘a 
fiend for work,’’ reliable and loyal to the core. His good na- 
ture was all but impregnable and more than one of us felt a 
huge unholy delight when once he showed himself human after all 
and almost wrecked an unoffending inanimate object instead 
of us who had tried him beyond the limit. We are all hope- 
