DARTMOUTH COLLEGE, 
‘Defartment of ‘Biological Sciences 
HANOVER • NEW HAMPSHIRE 
March 18, 1963 
Dr. Waldo Schmitt 
Smithsonian Institution 
United States National Museum 
Washington 25, D. C. 
Dear Dr. Schmitt 
It has taken a long time to answer your inquiry about 
equipment for McMurdo Base but we have just completed our 
move from Wisconsin to Dartmouth College in Hanover, New 
Hampshire. We are now just getting settled again into the 
academic routine. 
We didn’t make it back to McMurdo by Christmas, in fact 
it was the 29th of December before we were finally picked up. 
However, we were fortunate in getting most of our work done 
and will not be returning to the Antarctic to continue this 
project next year. We had a very pleasant trip home with a 
few days layover in "sunny" New Zealand before returning to 
the States. I trust that your trip to Palmer Peninsula was 
enjoyable and successful. 
With regard to equipment for McMurdo - I’ve lost my 
inventory list for the Bio Lab and as you know equipment may 
be available in the Antarctic but hidden away. So being 
aware that I just may not have seen some of the apparatus, 
I would suggest the following items: 
(1) Centrifuge (ultra high and slow plankton separation) 
(2) Met tier banance 
(3) Oceanographic equipment (we talked about a ship -but 
even without a ship much can be done from the ice - 
I think oceanographic investigations in the readily 
available McMurdo Sound area are woefully . lacking. ) 
-Complete set of hydrometers (present one incomplete 
and broken) 
-Nansen water bottles 
-Current meters 
-Portable echo-sounder or depth recorder (useful 
in marine and freshwater studies) 
(4) Low-background radiation counting equipment (might 
be useful with all of the radioisotopic tracers 
now being used. 
