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Beet remembered is Ralph Elliott of the United States Department of 
Agriculture and presently agricultural attache with our Embassy in 
Guatemala, In the course of his 1938 cruise in his ^ 5 -foot ketch 
Trail Star, he obtained several decapod crustaceans from the very area 
which we visited this year. It is to he expected that the specimen 
from the seldom collected east coast of Yucatan will yield a number of 
new records of occurrence, as well as extensions of geographic range. 
Five zoologists comprised the scientific staff: Dr. Waldo L. Schmitt, 
Research Associate, Smithsonian Institution, marine biologist especially 
interested in shrimps and crabs, and their close relatives ; Dr. J. F. 
Gates Clarke, Curator of Insects, U* S. national Museum, an authority on 
economically important tiny moths ( Ml erolepidoptera - "micros" for 
short); Dr. Harold A, Rehder , Curator of Mollusks, U. S. National Museum, 
who plans a report on the marine shells of the Quintana Roo littoral; 
Dr. Franklin C. Daiber , Professor of Zoology, Department of Biological 
Sciences, University of Delaware, ichthyologist and estuarine ecologist, 
whose chief concern on this occasion was an ecologic study of a mangrove 
swamp and its associated fish population; and Dr. Edward L. Bousfield, 
Curator of Invertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Canada, Ottawa, a 
carcinologiet specializing on barnacles and amphipod crustaceans, 
especially the beach-inhabiting and terrestrial forms. Mr. Bred in and 
his brother-in-law, Mr. Ernest N. May, also of Wilmington, took part in 
the activities of the expedition during the last week of April, visiting 
the Maya ruins of Chichen Itza and Uxmal near Merida, and the island of 
