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ocM'anicste %© for start ef fflratse? fc&tt opportanity i» of gettiag 
a ship or fraiflitar from St, ?ho!fi,aa back to any tinitod 5tat«« east, or 0alf 
ooast port aboat April for tbe aeaabar of ©ar party wii© prefer© not to fly? 
It is of interest tliat ymj haw aqua-l«ng efuipaent. Oar anOer iiater 
esmerleaee has been IJteited to tlie old shallow water diiring hood wltit hose 
aS pmp on deck cr in small boat. I shall bring aloi^ a hai^ooa in the ho,pe 
of getting a porpoise or two for the skeleton for yoar Masei^# a» HHieh as I 
hate to kill aw these beantii^l and gramfviX ^eatnres, the cpportiini^ 
«ay not be vonehaafed ns i*i#i wonld tee better for the pc«-poisea, 
fhat yoy can managa o»r eq»lw®ent or aost of it on deok is eneoarafiag 
and we shall eertaialy take all oreoaotioas neeessary i© protect deck and 
Teasel frm Itsm of mw kind, that yoor son is an axgmrt photographer is 
also good mam bet I i«mld net want to say at this |on«tpre whether or sot 
he shoald cme prepared to do any demloping cr printing on b<wird, Tkmk 
yon, thotifh, for ©entioaing the aatter, Ihe photographs yoo hxta alreadf 
sent, and those yow enclosed with yow last letter, wa v«ry wonderful, 
csan retnm tMae earlier or bring thipi along when w» coeie. 
I take It that a deposit is aeacfc in orderf how wash shoald this be? 
The low, below deck eabin is the bettw and more saiiptnoas ©ae and shonld 
go to Mr, iredin and his frlendi howerer,- ehenld he on arrival prefer the 
om it ahonld not tee diffienlt to move the botanist below. 
I aslaBd to© may questions?' ton say not be in a position to answer 
all of th®a, bwt nimtmw answej* yoo ean give m will be ap-.T'^-clated, 
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I alsost overlooked yoor question regardini th® fish, of which ;^o sent me 
three photop'aphs. fisese fishes are not eowon in wsen^, tfaoogh perh^s not 
nmcmton In the area in wliich t.i-iey mnnr, have, perhape, a half dosis) 
speciswim of loth the tat fish and the sija3<® Mokerel, ifeioh yon see® to have 
correctly Identified. Recent records of the ocottirence of this isackerel have 
been published in the .fonraal, ’*<k>peia,*’ as followsi l^ank d, Mather III and 
C. Godfrey Bw C^oods Mole Ocea»ograi*i® Institute) , Cfcservations of pelagic 
fishes of the tropical Atlantic, GOP'tjIA, Joly 29$ l^^l, ^'*o. 3, p. 1?9-18^} 
J. T. Mi<^ols (American Maseca of latwral llistoty, Ifew fork Olty), iseords of 
the Snake Waekcrtl frcse the western Atlantic, COPIIA, f«b. 18, 1^55, ho. 1, 
p, 55, Ion nay not have this Jociwal availabls t&r eonsnltatioa in any of four 
local libraries bet you very probably cocld obtain reprints of the articles if 
you were to address the iBith©r8~-Slch©l0 la Mew fork City and l&thwr at liloodt 
Bole, Massachusetts. Br. Schulte, wlio checked all toese fishes i&r ®e, has 
given IB# 2 KiRi®op*aph®d circulars listing publications on fish, in case you isight 
be interested. >ti®a we Join your cruise I shall have with m apeder*s_ *Fleld look 
of Atlantic fishes* and perhaps some other pertin^t literature, thougti I am ^ 
no means an Iclitlyologist. 
