¥/ftter is very soaroe throughout the Islands and In ths dry 
s@asc« noa-€aEist®it on aost of th<Ka, Likowis©, it is diffioult to 
find sufficient food for the support of human life in the readily 
aooessibl© parts of nearly all th® Islands* Oomraily speaking, they 
are rather inliospitable places and good lendings are few and generally 
wanting on the south shores of practically all of theei* 
Therefore, it beocsaos a virtual neoessily to provide tha pro- 
posed laboratory with a sui table tmidor or pow®r boat of reasonable 
size and of a cruising radius suffioient to reach ?anaam or the ssain- 
land of Ecuador in case of etaergency. It should provide sleeping 
aoooiismodations for several people and have suffiei«tt carrying capacity 
for lieuling water and supplies needed for the rsaintenaaa® of the lab- 
oratory aM such sscoMary bases as nay be established elsewhere in th® 
Islands* This vessel also should be ©quipped for handling oceanographic 
apjmretufl and dredging equl'Ment, becaus© sarin® studies are an integral 
part of tile ooateeaplated prograia of tlw laboratory. 
I know of CBily one vessel that aay be available wliioh oan fill 
th© bill and yet not be too expensive to mintain. It is th© AST03 
DDHRII, formerly of th© Tortugas laboratory of the Carnegie Institution* 
This is a vessel 70 ft, iix lexigth, 16 ft# b«MBa, 6 ft* draft* She oan 
be run with a crew of two, but, in addition to the necessary mat© or 
navlljator and the ©ngineer, it is advisable to have a deck hand also 
and perhaps a second on© If wjch dredging is oont«aplated, lfh«m I last 
saw her she had cable and independently drivefli power winch capable of 
handling otter trawls and mall dredges* 
Besides a vessel of the size of the several smaller 
boats and launches should b® ac<|uired* Left over fro® the Carnegie 
Laboratory are two very suitable TOtorboats, the DlMIii and the VSL- 
ELLA# Both are about 25 ft* Icmg, the first naaed imving a 26-40 
C-oylinder leraath, tlMt other a S6»60 4-cylinder Kemath. As indicated. 
in th© estimtes, these boats can be iiad for $460 apiece* If purohased, 
I would suggest that self-stairters be added to the equipment of each of 
those launches. The DAR’fflS is a particularly useful craft, inasmuch as 
she has a tank capacity of W) gallons of gasoline and ©an get something 
over three miles per gallon out of her power plant* 
Several skiffs, prams, or dories would be needed for landing, 
end at least one or more of these boats should be powered by an in- 
board motor* A 12-ft* power skiff can be obtained for |160, a 14-ft* 
one for ‘1 200* 
The ©stimtes which I attach hereto are Inoomplot®, but 
will give you an idea of what is desirable* I have arranged the esti- 
mates xmder several heads* With respect to housing and boats, one 
could get off for such less money if we planned on a much armller be- 
ginning, but I do not think one would dare to operate in the Islands 
with anytliing less than a 40 or 50 ft, power boat. A cabin cruiser of 
this size purchased on the market today would run anywhere from -^6,000 
