their kinds and distribution we must not fear ice, or seek wholly to avoid 
it. Indeed, to get a true picture, and the whole story concerning any and 
all of them, we need to go where ice is though it may add to the difficul¬ 
ties of planned or to be planned operations. The word "hazards" might 
have been used along with difficulties but hazards will always be minimal 
if one goes with proper and adequate equipment and possessed with, or ac¬ 
companied by someone with "know-how" born of experience. Do not be too 
fearful of "ice" in choosing the site of your station or your studies.* 
* Don Squires of the U. S. National Museum who is engaged in working up 
the corals of "The Ross Sea Fauna" for the New Zealand Oceanographic In¬ 
stitute, is strongly of the same opinion. So far as it is humanly pos¬ 
sible we should "pursue" our antarctic organisms through the winter as 
well as during the few summer months. The occasional open water that 
occurs in Arthur Harbor and perhaps more open in Paradise Harbor in the 
winter months could well render such a pursuit rewarding. 
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Personally, I favor locating the station as close to the mainland 
of Palmer land das possible and practicable (this was to be a Palmerland 
station, was it not?) and not in the South Shetlands. 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 types of environment, and terrain, and the greatest variety and 
