of Biosystemati.es, who was and still may be in charge of that 
school * s Antarctic Program. That institution must have quite 
extensive collections, upon which their graduate students are, 
or have been, working. For instance. Gandido P. Agate p has 
published on a part of their Antarctic holothurian collections, 
and there must be a great many more of these sea cucumbers on 
hand. Dr. Robert J. Mensd.es, who moved from (JSC to Duke, to 
State University of Florida, Tallahassee, where he now is, has 
in hand the isopod collections , or at least those from deeper 
waters. Also, in the Antarctic Research Series, Vol. 2 (Biology 
of Antarctic Seas) is an interesting paper with a color plate 
on the starfish, Odon taster va 1 id n s , by J. S. Pearse. 
I do not know that, aside from the afore -mentioned authors 
in the Antarctic Research Series, you will get much more else- 
where . " Biogeography and Ecology in Antarctica," by Van Mieghera 
and Van Oye, which I consulted in an endeavor to give you really 
pertinent information, was disappointing. 
I wish you well with your Antarctic exhibit; loo bad you 
could not come down to talk things over. 
Sincerely, 
Waldo L. Schmitt 
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