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IN 1895 the State University of Iowa, acting through Prof. C. C. Nutting, who was already well known as a member of several marine expeditions, organised a zoological exploration of the Bahamas. Its object was twofold: to give their people experience of marine life in tropical seas, and to secure material for morphological and systematic research and for ordinary laboratory purposes. So satisfactory were the results that Prof. Nutting's staff themselves suggested a further expedition, this time to the Lesser Antilles. Preparations were commenced in 1916, *o little was the entry of the United States into the war anticipated. Prof. Nutting himself went down to prospect in 1917, and finally the expedition sailed in April, 1918, the party consisting of nineteen persons, including six ladies.
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GARDINER, J. West Indian Zoology1. Nature 107, 829 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/107829a0
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