52 
ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN 
will be studied by members 
of the expedition or sent to 
specialists, and the results 
published in Zoologica, while 
the more general matter will 
be brought out in a volume 
the coming autumn by G. P. 
Putnam’s Sons. 
FISHING FROM A BOWSPRIT 
Strange fish, worms, jellies and even insects can be caught from this 
swinging seat, at full speed and in rough weather. 
Birds. —3 penguins, 2 flightless cormorants, 
3 gulls, 3 doves, 1 hawk, 10 parrakeets, 2 
jays, 3 mockingbirds. 
Reptiles. —42 lizards. 
For the American Museum there was col¬ 
lected material for two lizard groups, including 
vegetation, rocks, shells, sand and many photo¬ 
graphs, together with a giant tortoise, eighteen 
lizards and a family of sea-lions. 
For study by the department of Tropical 
Research of the Zoological Society: 
90 water color plates by Miss Cooper. 
40 oil paintings by Harry Hoffman. 
46 pen and ink drawings by Mr. Broking. 
400 photographs and 11,000 feet of moving 
picture film by Mr. Tee-Van. 
160 bird skins. 
Many nests and eggs. 
150 reptiles. 
200 fish. 
3y000 insects. 
40 jars of specimens. 
60 vials and jars of plankton. 
200 microscopic slides of plankton. 
100 specimens of plants. 
300 pages of narrative, records, notes and 
catalogues by Miss Rose. 
This material is remarkable both for its 
rarity, excellent preservation and for the fact 
that it was almost all collected within a period 
of three weeks. The various groups of organisms 
The Noma with all the 
members of the Williams 
Galapagos Expedition, 
steamed from her berth in 
Brooklyn at noon on March 
1, but swinging the compass 
and engine adjustment kept 
us in the lower bay for 
thirty hours. This gave op¬ 
portunity for unpacking and 
storing our vast quantity of 
paraphernalia, and in fitting 
up a laboratory, a fortunate 
interlude as it proved, for 
the passage down the coast was rough and 
stormy. Scientific work on a yacht under way 
was a new experience to me, and we ran the 
gamut from comfort to absolute cessation of 
work. Until we learned to fasten everything 
down, a sudden terrific wave would sweep the 
laboratory tables quite clean, and on unusually 
rough days we would continue our work seated 
on the floor, as chairs were useless. This was 
the exception however, and in the usual calm 
weather, the twenty-five hundred horse-power, 
twin-screw engines gave forth not a tremor or 
vibration so that even high power microscopic 
research could be carried on. 
By the time we were off the Florida coast 
the sea permitted me to occupy my usual perch 
in a boatswain’s seat, over the bow, close to the 
water, where, with a long-handled net, I secured 
sufficient fish and sea-weed fauna for days of 
study. We put into Key West to pick up Dr. 
James Mitchell and to obtain additional supplies 
of coal and water, and then crossed to Havana 
for a supply of 95 per cent, alcohol for the 
preservation of our specimens. While in port 
we dredged sand bars, and caught sharks and 
various tropical fish from the rail. 
From the Windward Passage between Cuba 
and Haiti, to Colon, we were in the trough of a 
heavy sea, and rolled steadily, occasionally as 
much as 34 degrees. At Colon we were over¬ 
hauled and coaled, giving time for collecting 
II. BRIEF NARRATIVE 
