Tort^jgAs • 
Dar» Waldo L. Sctodtt* Curator of i&rin© lavortolbratos , 
spent tii© month of «Jun@ at the Carnegie larlao Biological Station, 
fortii^as, siippl ©men ting his last year's investigation of the Crusta- 
ooa of the region* In oollahoration nlih 0r* Longley, ©xteaaive 
studies of tho food of fished woro pxjrsued. Dr* Schmitt giving per* 
tioular attontion to the awastacean olament of the prohlm* He 
examined about 750 fish stojaachs and this means added several 
species to his p^©vio^^s list of Crustacea, He Twrites, ®W© can ai»» 
ready see speoifio feeding differences in closely related apooiesi of 
the ti»o snappers, the one foods on the sand-dwelling Crus taoeaj and the 
other on the rook and eol-grasa inhabiting forms* And these are 
fishes that during the day largely school togetherj in fact, we take 
them with tie same shot of dynaitlte*® About two thousand sped** 
mens of marine invertebrates were obtained through Dr* Sobmitt's 
efforts, and these consist chiefly of Crustaeea, Sponges, Coel- 
enterates, Bryoaoa, Eohinoderas, and marine Annelids* 
