s 
and lobsters. 
While docked in Los Angeles Harbor during the daylight hours 
a visit was paid to mutua^riends at the Allan Hancock Foundation 
of the University of Southern California, and to Captain Hancock’s 
"Velero now the^ floating marine laboratory of th^’i fniversity 
vessel 
especially designed and equipped for 
physical and biological oceanographic investigations. 
In Honolulu, four and a half days. and 2,228 miles later, we 
were welcomed by several friends of long standing - Mrs. Arthur 
de C. Sowerby, whose late husband was the principal contributor to 
the National Museum’s superlative representation of the larger 
animals of North China and Manchuria, and Mr. Ernest N. May of 
?/ilmington, Delaware, who with Mrs. May entertained us that evening 
in their beautiful home on the sea under Diamond Head. lir. May is 
a brother-in-law of Mr. J. Bruce Bredin, who, with Mrs. Bredin, 
ade possible this third of the expeditions bearing their name 
hich they have sponsored for the Smithsonian -il^nstitution. The first 
ril 
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vms to the Belgian Congo in 1955, the second to the Caribbean in 
1956 (see the Smithsonian Institution Annual Report for 1956; 
Publication 4285, 1957). Earlier in the day the biological 
laboratories of the University of Hav/aii, the Bishop Museum, the 
headquarters of the Pacific-Oceanic Fishery Investigations, and 
the Aquarium were visited. 
Indulgence here is asked of our many friends and colleagues 
in California and Honolulu for the absence of further acknowledge- 
