Excerpt from Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zo�logy at Harvard College, in Cambridge, 1892-93, Vol. 23

Corrientes, bringing up nothing but mud and decomposed vegetable matter. This induced us to keep up the Gulf of California, till we were off the Tres Marias. From that point until we reached Guaymas, on the 23d of April, we carried on our usual operations with the trawl, the tow net, and the Tanner net.

In the afternoon of the same day I parted from the ship with great regret, but more than satisfied with the results of this expedition.

The more I saw of the Albatross, the more I became convinced that her true field is that of exploration. She is a remarkably fine sea boat, and has ample accommodation for a staff of working specialists such as would be needed on a distant expedition. The time will soon come when the Fish Commission will hardly care to continue to run her, and I can conceive of no better use for so fine a vessel than to explore a belt of 20� of latitude north and south of the equator in the Pacific, from the west coast of Central America to the East Indian Archipelago.

The success of the Albatross thus far has depended entirely upon the zeal, energy, intelligence, forethought, and devotion of Captain Tan ner, if I may judge of the past by the present. He never spares himself, and he is always ready to make the most of the time at his disposal for the benefit of the special object he has in charge. He looks after every haul of the trawl himself, and will not allow any one else to jeopard in any way the material of the vessel, or the time it requires to make a haul. That responsibility he assumes himself, and it constitutes his daily work. In looking over the records of the Albatross during her voyage from New York to San Francisco, I am struck with the amount of work which has been accomplished. It would be but a just return to Captain Tanner, if Congress would make the necessary appropriations to work up and publish, not only all that he has brought together on that cruise, but also what has been left untouched thus far of the immense collections made from the time he first commanded the Albatross. In his cruises ofi' the east coast of the United States and in the Carib bean, to say nothing of his explorations in the Gulf of California, on the coast of California, on the coast of Alaska, and in the Bering Sea, he has accumulated in the Albatross endless most interesting material, which no other ship could have got together unless she had another Tanner in command.

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