Mrs. Rose Wadsworth 
Department of Living Invertebrates 
American Museum of Natural His tory 
Central park West at 79th St. 
New York, N.Y. 10024 
Dear Mrs. Wadsworth: 
I gave your request for a list of invertebrates from the 
deeper shelf area of the Antarctic sea some thought following 
your phone call, and even more attention after your latest 
letter arrived. I have come up with so little information, 
however, that I fear that you will be grievously disappointed. 
My own collections were confined to the A 
sula area, east and west shores, waters, and a 
Since my return to Washington from "down under 
promoted the systematic working up of the various groups of 
Antarctic inveryebrates in monographic form, but so far have 
succeeded in getting only one complete, one-volume monograph : 
"Antarctic Ascidiacea," by Patricia Kott, University of Queens- 
land, Brisbane, Australia (Antarctic Research Series Voll 13, 
1969). 
Dr. Olga Hartman, of the Allan Hancock Foundation, Univer- 
sity of Southern California , worked up my polychae te collec- 
tions, along with those collected by the El tanin . Her monograph 
appeared in three parts: two preliminary” compTTations of the 
previously known species, and a third comprising her identifica- 
tions and new species entitled "Polychae tous Annelids collected 
by the US NS El tanin and Staten Island Cruises, chiefly from 
Antarctic Seas," Allan Hancock Monographs in Marine Bihlogy , 
No. 2, 1967. 
The only other published report on my material was included 
oy David Nicol, of the Dept, of Geology, University of Florida, 
University Station, Gainesville, Fla. 32603, in his paper 
entitled "Descriptions, Ecology, and Geographic Distribution of 
some Antarctic Pelecypods , " Bull. Arner. Palaeontology, Vol. 3, 
No. 231, 1966. 
Regrettably, Dr. Nicol is the only one of the three authors 
cited who gave no indication of the stations from which my 
specimens came, although he did make use of my station data in 
his ecological discussions. The 17 species of pelecypods that 
