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The Presidential Cruise of I 93 S 
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The Smithsonian Institution was signally honored this past year with 
an invitation by the President of the United States, the Honorable Franklin D, 
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Roosevelt, to take part in his, trip aboard the U.S.S. HOUSTON to Clipperton 
and the Galapagos Islands. It was a great privilege and my good fortune to 
be the naturalist selected to accompany the expedition. 
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The cruise covered a total of 5.888 miles in the brief space of 
.uring which 14 different collecting stops ,^ nw »ii wg a U iara were m< 
These were distributed among the possessions of five different nations 
Mexico (Lower California and Socorro Island), France (Clipperton Island), 
Ecuador (the Galapagos Islands), Costa Rica (Cocos Island), and Colombia 
(Old Providence Island in the Caribbean). No collecting was done in the 
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and ended at Pensacola, Florida, on August 9 } 
All manner of collecting was undertaken, fishing, bird hunting, 
and botanizing, dredging, tidepool and shore collecting— indeed, all kinds 
of endeavor that might yield something of interest to the Smithsonian Insti 
tution and our National Collections. The ichthyological collection, which 
perhaps took first place in the President's interest, is one of the most 
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important come to the National Museum from that section of the 
Pacific 
In obtaining fish as scientific specimens* as well as for sport, 
the President was ably assisted by members of his personal party: Mr* Stephen 
