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while proceeding to our anchorage. Just about the time we got within 
striking distance, our first and as it proved only chance of the day, 
the launch motor went dead. With a harpoon gun instead of a hand 
harpoon, I believe we’d have gotten one* This was the last time we 
saw these two or three individuals. 
At Habana, three or four days later, afternoon of May tenth 
through May twelfth, I visited the UniversityfP&ey Museum. Made arrange- 
ments with Dr. C. G. Aguayo for the receipt of a representative collec- 
tion of Cuban crustacea. Also spent a day in the field with Dr. Pedro J. 
Bermudez, a student of Dr. Cushman's and lately a guest of our museum in 
the Department of Geology where he was working up some of his Cuban collec- 
tions of foraminifera. 
The night of May sixteenth saw us off quarantine at Charleston, 
South Carolina. Earlier in the day, when about fifty miles off the coast 
of Georgia, an adult female Prodelnhinus with embryo young was taken. 
This is about the fifth porpoise embryo and I believe, the first of its 
genus ever to come to the Museum. 
A visit to the Charleston Museum on the eighteenth, together 
with one to the local lighthouse tender, to examine some of the large 
coastal buoys from which Mr. Lunz had gotten some very fine series of 
xanthid crabs and to discuss the matter of collecting these and related 
material with some of the officials of the service, concluded my stay 
in Charleston. 
The ship left for New York at 5 P*M. on the seventeenth. 
Leaving Charleston the afternoon of the eighteenth, 4s 15 P.M., I ar- 
rived in Washington, 7^50 A.M. on May 19th, and reported at the Museum 
at nine o’clock. 
The cruise was a most successful one, covering about forty- 
five hundred miles and making nineteen stops at fifteen of the West Indies# 
A not inconsiderable collection of marine invertebrates was brought back, 
some algo log! cal material, the two adult porpoises and embryo already re- 
ferred to, and a few miscellaneous items# 
Among the many individuals to whom the Museum and I are par- 
ticularly indebted ares w Bob M , Robert G. Lunz of the Charleston Museum 
which loaned him to the expedition as scientific assistant, Mr. Mauri ce 
Petit, Director of the Botanic Garden at St. Thomas from whom I received 
a number of specimens of crustacea, Mr# D. V. Starroselsky, manager of 
the Government controlled Bluebeard Hotel at St. Thomas, who gave a 
great deal of his spare time in order to arrange several profitable 
contacts. Dr. T. H. Hayes also at St. Thomas, of the Medical Corps of 
