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simple task to place the specimens desired by the Museum in the large cold 
storage freezers of the ship, and then, on arrival in port, to pack them with 
dry ice in wooden packing cases, suitably insulated with corrugated paper, for 
safe shipment to Washington. The fish were unpacked there still hard frozen. 
When thawed out in tanks of tap water, they returned to practically the identical 
fresh condition in which they had been placed in cold storage. Many of the fish 
still retained much of their original coloration, having apparently undergone 
little or no change from the time they were brought aboard ship. This is but 
one of many instances in which a large ship with ample facilities of all kinds 
can render science inestimable service. 
To the President, as Commander~in~Chi ef of the Navy and of this 
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expedition, as well, and to Captain Barker, /the officers and the crew of the 
U.S.S. HOUSTON, the Smithsonian Institution is indebted for a wealth of valuable 
material, including some 30 forms new to science which will be described in 
accounts shortly to be published. 
