their kinds and distribution, we must not fear ice, or seek wholly to avoid 
it. Ir^eed, to get a true picture, ai^ the whole story concerning any and 
all of them, we need to go where ice is, though it may e^d to the difficul- 
ties of planned or to be planned operation®. The word "hazards” might have 
been used along with difficulties, but hazards will always be tninimal if one 
goes with proper and adeqimte equips^nt aM possessed with, or accompanied 
by, someone with ’’know-how” boro of experience. Do ixjt be too fearful of 
"ice” In chooaiEg the site of your station or your studies,* 
* Don Squires of the U* S. National Mxjseum, who is enga^d in working up 
the corols of "The Boss Sea Fauna" for the Hew 2ealaa3 Oceanographic Insti- 
tute, is strongly of the saims opinion. So far as it is humnly poscible we 
should "pursi^” our antarctic or^misas through the winter as well as during 
the few suam^r months. The oceaeional open water that occiirs in Arthur 
Harbor and perhaps E»re open in Paradise Harbor in the winter months, could 
well render such a pursuit rewarding. 
Personally, I favor locating the station ae close to the minland of 
Palmerla):^ as possible and practicable (this was to be a PalsierlaaS station, 
was it not?) and not in the South Si^t lands. Leave the work to be done in 
those islands to the British who have already done so much, and published 
so much on that area, 
I also favor sites or areas from which can be reached with greatest 
facility, and within reasonable distance on foot or by boat, the widest 
range of typjs of environment, and terrain, and the greatest variety aaS 
