Early, Mr, Frederick B. Adame\ Mr, Basil O'Connor, Commander Daniel J, 
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Callaghan, U.S.N, , Colonel Edwin M. Watson, U.S.A., and several of the 
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Mr. Adams took a number of very worth while color photographs for 
the purpose of recording the color of the fresh specimens as they were landed 
in the fishing boats. These he has very generously contributed to the collec- 
tions of the Smithsonian Institution. 
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I am indebted to Captain Callaghan for a number of notes. 
officers of the HOUSTON. Other specimens were secured by the crew with hand 
lines over the ship's side or were picked up ashore. 
Eighty-three different kinds of fish were caught by one means or 
another. Still other species, such as the large green parrot fish at Clipper- 
ton, were seen but not specifically identified, as none were captured. Of the 
many fish taken during the cruise, over 250 specimens, representing about 60 
different species, were brought back to the Museum for study and permanent 
preservation in the national collections. Nearly half of the different kinds 
of fish taken were identified in the field. Except for the gobies, which 
Mr. Isaac Cinsburg, of the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries, determined, all of the 
fish saved for the Museum were identified by Dr. Leonard F. Schultz and Mr. 
Earl D. Reid, respectively Curator and Scientific Aide of the Division of 
Fishes. 
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The larger game fish are most Inadequately represented in ichthy- 
ological collections throughout the world, not so much for want of facilities 
for storing them, as because of the difficulties attendant upon their preser- 
vation at- the time of capture and their transport to their final resting 
place, which in the past necessitated large and often unwieldy tanks and al- 
most unmanageable quantities of preserving fluid. Aboard the HOUSTON, however. 
