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IN July and August 1938, the President of the United States, the Honorable Franklin D. Roosevelt, undertook an inspection cruise and fishing expedition from San Diego, California, to Pensacola, Florida, by way of the Panama Canal, aboard the U.S.S. Houston. Between July 16 and August 9 some 5,888 miles were covered and fourteen different collecting stops were made, distributed among the possessions of five different nations: Mexico (Lower California and Socorro Island), Franco (Clipperton Island), Ecuador (the Galapagos Islands), Costa Rica (Cocos Island), and Colombia (Old Providence Island in the Caribbean). Dr. Waldo L. Schmitt of the United States National Museum accompanied the expedition as a naturalist. The results are published in a series of papers of which four are before us: “Decapod and Other Crustacea” (with Introduction and Data) (Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 98, No. 6, Pub. 3531) by Waldo L. Schmitt; “Molluscs” (Pub. 3535) by Paul Bartsch and Harald Alfred Rehder; “A New Holothurian of the Genus Thyone” (Pub. 3537) by Elisabeth Deichmann; and “Two New Gobioid Fishes” by Isaac Ginsburg (Pub. 3539), May–June 1939. A number of new species of Mollusca are described, and lists of species given from the various collecting grounds.
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Oceanographical Results from Central America. Nature 144, 545 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144545c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/144545c0