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To acc.ire this cpec‘fie irformaticn for al] ramoles means t at
there will] te rather complete biological informatio: cn a very few
ergarisma ard ro information on mest of the orgarisme.
all organisms {s rot feasible.
To jo this for
Or. Harry has cointed ovt how iittle
{gs krown about most of the martne animals of the Kester: racific.
‘ne
of the examples {s that of the fiehea in which he cites the contribction
of ‘r. fchrltz ae being great tut inadeqiate.
Or. Schults who is C.rator
of Miches at the i. ©. National Museum ard an energetic worker 18 completing
this year, after 10 vears of work, the fiches of the Mareball a:d Mariana
Telands.
fit takes 10 yeare t: identify the fishee aione for cne part
of the Western tropical Pacific, how can all the groupa o* orgarisnzs
for the ertire area be idertified in three yeare?
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Sn page 22 the past werk has been criticized because it is claimed
that
"----an aopreciable awount of the sammling of scecimens for radio-
activity has been carried oct by taking a gereral collection of many
species, ashing them together ard testirg the final residve as a single
sample."
At the Uriversity of Washington which haz the greatest number.
only avery fewfor special P
of Pacific eamples, over 20,COO samples have been prepared butHone in
thi@ manner.
Each sample has been idertified by its scte:tific name,
prepared individually ard the data for the samples recorded on individual
cards.
In reporting the data, samples have beer grouped under common
nemes, where species differencies were not impcrtart, for the convenience
of the reader just as Dr. Harry has himslef in reporting cr the collections
he made ir: the Western Pacific.