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brought back to the Museum for study and permanent preservation in the Rational 
Collections. 
The larger game fish are most inadequately represented in ichthyo- 
logical 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 almost un- 
manageable quantities of preserving fluid. Aboard the HCWSTQH, however, it 
was a relatively simple task to place the specimens desired by the ttuz&m in 
the large cold storage freezers of the ship, and then, on arrival in port, to 
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jack them with dry ice in wooden packing cases, suitably insulated with corru- 
gated paper, for safe shipment to Washington. The fish were unpacked there 
etill hard frozen. Ilhen 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 color- 
ation, 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 
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;he Smithsonian has alretidy in hand for publication manuscripts reporting 
upon the echinoderms , sponges, annelids, and thev marine and land plants 
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collected? that the illustrated reports on the rarevpalm, the mollusks , and 
