Dr. I. E. Wallen April 25, 1968 -4\ Stephenson, William, and Rees, May. 1967. Some portunid crabs from the Pacific and Indian oceans in the collections of the Smithsonian Institution. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 120, no. 3556, pp. 1-114, 38 figs., 9 pls. , ‘Wells, John W. 1954, Recent corals from the Marshall Islands. Geol. Surv. Prof. Pap. 260-I, pp. 385-486, 92 pls. . Yaldwyn, John C, 1962. A new Pasiphaea (Crustacea, Decapoda, Natantia) from southern Californian waters. Bull. Southern California Acad. Sci., vol. 61, pp. 15-24, 19 figs. Outside specialists who were sought to implement the purposes of the ONR-AEC contracts were offered token honoraria ranging from 100 to 700 dollars, half to be paid when half of the material had been identified and the remainder on the return of the identified ‘collections. A purchase order (No. 33767) for %,500 was ‘ established in the Fiscal Division to cover these honoraria. As of November 30, 1965, a total of $1,750 had been disbursed, leaving a balance of $2,750. I do not recall that any honoraria have been paid since that date. Of the purchase-order amount, $1,500 was allocated for amphipod identifications by Dr. J. L. Barnard, but Dr. Barnard discovered that he could not discharge the commitment in a reasonable length of time, and his contract was cancelled. Inasmuch as permission was denied to distribute this $1,500 among other participants already under contract, that sum will presumably remain unallocated and available for work on other “groups, if and when specialists can be found, ve pe BT bsha gh If further faunal investigations of Bikini are contemplated, serious attention should be given to means of promoting interest in the invertebrate collections. I doubt very much that such interest could be engendered in most of the small number of competent invertebrate specialists unless the investigation assumed crash-program proportions, with subsidies so generous that they could not be ignored. Certainly the progress achieved thus . far under the existing contracts indicates that token honoraria will not get the job done without extensive delay; at least one of