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The Presidential Cruise of 1938 
When the President invited the Smithsonian Institution to participate 
in his recept cruise to the Galapagos Islands, I was pleased beyond words that 
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I was designated the nattiralist to the expedition. All manner of collecting 
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was undertaken, fishing, bird hunting and botanizing, dredging, tidepool and 
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shore collecting, -apt all kinds of endeavor that might yield something of interest 
to the Smithsonian Institution and our National Collections. The ichthyological 
collection, which perhaps took first place in the President's interest, is one 
of the most important ever to have come to the National Museum from that sec- 
tion of the Pacific 
In looking over the material brought back, one cannot help being 
imbued with an enthusiastic an or eel a ti on of the President as a man of broad 
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biological interests and a r on of science. Throughout the cruise he 
took an active part/ and a live interest in all of our collecting 
