UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 
ALLAN HANCOCK FOUNDATION 
UNIVERSITY PARK 
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 90007 
5 May 1966 
Dr. Waldo L. Schmitt 
Department of Invertebrates 
U.S. National Museum 
Washington, D.C. 
Dear Dr. Schmitt: 
I have completed an analysis of your collections from the 
STATEN ISLAND, and thought you might be interested in knowing 
the preliminary results. The lists are by your station numbers, 
with the data abbreviated. (You may see that we are lacking a 
depth record for 60-63; if it is readily available, could you 
have someone send it to us?) 
The lot includes 86+ species of polychaetes. Eighteen are 
unrecorded and may represent new species or genera. Three of 
these belong to unknown families (see Sta. 6, 10, Christ Church). 
The following ^nera are present, (not previously known from Ant- 
arctica): Dysponetus , Aricidea , Apistobranchus , Tharyx , Ilyphagus 
and Artacama. New species are to be named also in the genera: 
Aricidea , Paraonis , Cirratulus , Brada , Nicomache , Leaena , Euchone 
and new genus and species in Orbiniidae. 
The most interesting result is the discovery of an inter- 
tidal or littoral fauna in Antarctica. This has not. been shown 
before. I would regard several of your stations as intertidal 
(Sta. 32A', 10, 6 5'', and possibly Sta. 6, 68,' 34' and 73). Several 
others are within the 20-fm depth class. You can see that the 
kinds of species change almost completely with increased depth. 
The Eleventh Pan-Pacific Congress is being held in Tokyo 
in August. A very interesting program has been planned on Ant- 
arctica. I expect to be there, summarizing some of the zoo- 
geographic results based on the collections of the ELTANIN, and 
your STATEN ISLAND materials. Is there a chance that you will 
be there? 
Thank you again for making this interesting collection. 
Best wishes as always. 
Sincerely yours. 
OH : hp 
Olga Hartman 
