and cooperation extended by the officers and men of the Cutters 
Matagorda and Chautauqua. P. T. Burtis and F. W. Landers generously 
lent their services for field work on Laysan Island. 0. L. Austin, 
Jr., F. R. Fosberg, J. T. Marshall, Jr., M. Moynihan, G. C. Munro, 
and A. F. Robinson kindly supplied information on the status of 
albatrosses on several islands outside the Leeward Chain 
