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Ha Appreciation 
The scientific results of the Presidential Cruise have proved to 
he of extreme interest. Hot only have a number of new records of occurrence 
been established and hitherto -unrepresented species been added to the Museum's 
collections, but more than thirty new species, subspecies, and varieties were 
discovered. These will be described in a series of scientific papers which 
are to follow. To these the foregoing station list and chronological account 
of the expedition by Dr, Schmitt will serve as an introduction. 
The fact that the collections in the Galapagos were made at a time 
of the year when these islands have seldom been visited by investigators adds 
materially to their scientific interest and value . Likewise, the avifauna of 
Olipperion Island until now was not represented in the Puseum collections by 
so much as a single specimen. 
