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A list of the fishes taken on the Presidential Cruise, 1938. 
By Waldo L. Schmitt and Leonard P. Schultz 
This list comprises only those fish collected on the Presidential 
Cruise of 1938 ishich have actually been incorporated in the study 
collections of the United States National Museum. President Roosevelt, 
himself an ardent fisheraan and keen naturalist, sms the principal 
contributor of the specimens listed. Not only did he secure some 
rarities, but he also succeeded in establishing maximiaa weight records 
for tiiK) speciesj twenty pounds for the Rainbow Runner, Elagatis 
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bipinnulatus , ai^d thirty-eight pounds for the Blue Crevally, Caranx 
stellatus. %e President was most ably assisted by the members of 
his personal party: Mr. Frederick B. Adamsj Mr. Basil 0*Connorj Mr. 
Stephen T. Early, the President's Seoretaryj Captain Ross T. Mclntire^{^l 
U. S. Navy, Aide; Captain D. J. Callaghan, Naval Aidej and Colonel 
Edwin W. Watson, Military Aide, $ h a , „amio p a»thie» ». Vy invitation of 
the President, tis^s Naturalist to the expedition,^ 
^A first listing of the fishes taken on the Presidential Cruise, 
together with remarks upon certain of the specimens preserved and 
notes on others observed in the field but not saved, was published by 
Dr. Schmitt as an ^Annotated List of the Fishes," appended to the 
"Log [of] The Cruise 1938," by Captain D. J. Callaghan, U.S.N., Naval 
Aide to the President, with fhllowing title page: "The Inspection 
Cruise and Fishing Expedition of President Franklin D. Roosevelt on 
Board U,.S.S. HOUSTON 16 July 1938—9 August 1938." [Privately printed 
