There is no telling when the rest of my material will get 
identified, but I nave hopes. The starfishes are all in the 
hands of Miss Helen Clark, now with the Department of Biology, 
Victoria University, Christchurch, New Zealand. She gave me 
a list of names of die species that I ssollected, but I have been 
unable to locate it in my Antarctic files. 
Although you spoke only of invertebrates, you should not 
overlook the fishes , which appear in many of the underwater 
photographs of Antarctic habitats. In the frontispiece of 
the Kott volume there iareseveral invertebrates to be seen, but 
only four nave been identified to species and one, the starfish, 
to genus. In addition, there are hydro ids. 
In this connection, you might Dr. Paul K. Dayton, Depart- 
ment of Zoology , University of './ashing ton, Seattle, Wash. Vbl05. 
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fishes 
, of which I have not yet received a list of 
identifications, are in the hands of Or. Hugh DeWitt , Department 
of Zoology , University of Maine , Grono , Maine 04473, where also 
is located Dr. John Dearborn, who did a study on the ecology of 
the benthic organisms off the U. S. Mcl-lurdo Station under N3F 
auspices . 
Another similar study in the same area was carried on by 
Dr. Jack Littlapage, Department of Biology, Victoria University, 
Victoria, British Columbia , Canada. 
These particular investigators have paid much more attention 
to benthic animal associations than I ever had time for. I was 
a member of a survey team for the purpose of picking a site for 
a new biological station now in operation at Arthur Harbor, 
Anvers Island, and my collecting was incidental. Three stations 
th^'ere yielded no end of worms* A listing of the species 
Identified by Dr. Hartman is also enclosed. About the very 
prolific worm fauna I have several times remarked that the 
tube -building species must be as numerous on the bottom as 
blades of grass in a meadow . 
Obtaining specimens of the invertebrates you finally decide 
you want for your exhibit is oust a matter of requesting them 
from the Smithsonian through your official channels. Dr. 1. B. 
Manning is Chairman of the Department of Invertebrate Zoology; 
Dr. Richard Cowan is Director of die Natural History Museum of 
the Smithsonian. 
After you have exhausted possibilities here for securing 
wanted specimens, you km might write to the University of 
Southern California, attention of Dr. Jap M. Savage, Professor 
