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for field work in mrine biology. He is still in the Paeiflo bst ie 
due to return in How^mber. However, he Is within e year of his doctorate 
and should ^1 Baeaas ooepletc requirements for this degree before 
going in the field again. His work toward it has baen interr^ted 1« 
two diffarsnt years field work. 
7. Er, Charles E. Cutress, Jr,, 3h, recently appointed associate 
curator of laarine invertebrates, specdslist in sea anenones, with eon* 
siderable field experience in Hawaii and the Kar^mll Isli^da. I®e hawa 
no assurance that he would take part in this expedition due to the fact 
that he will be arriving in ^sshington for the first tte# in Decawbwr 
and has expressed the desire to oonplete his doctor' a thasis in the 
ensuing awnthaj he will have coKplet«i all other requlre««nt8 at the 
University of Hawaii before leaving. Hone of ua have yet aet hr. Cutress 
but he comes to us very highly rscmmended and is well qualified to give 
a good account of himselfi aigr be %h» logical man to represwnt the 
interests of the division of marine invertebrates on the propoiwa! «q>e- 
dition but would have to be consulted first. 
Heither Drs. Leonard Schults, nor Eniest Laohoer, 1*0, respectively 
curator and associate curator, divlaion of fishaa, is available. Dr. 
Schults has promised to conduct a course in Icbth^logy ^ the Ikiiversi^ 
of Maryland during the spring aemestir and Dr. Lachniw* leaves for tec^e 
on a Guggenheim scholarship tiui first of Her<ii, 1956, 
