To tropic seas aboard Velero III, 1940 [?]

Reel 740 (containers 740) (with audio) (00:46:51) – To tropic seas aboard Velero III, 1940 [?]. Includes the launch of Velero III, Seri Indians, island exploration, dredge operation, the inhabitants of Floreana Island in the Galápagos (Ritter, Strauch, the Baroness, Lorenz, Philippson, Wittmers), dead men on Marchena Island in the Galápagos (Nuggerud, Lorenz), diving, manta ray harpooning in Cartago Bay off Isabela Island in the Galápagos (Hallikainen). Photography by W. Charles Swett. Narrated by John Garth. ? Fauna: monkeys (including spider monkey), goats, elephant seals (capture), sea lions (birth), donkey, killer whales, horned toad, rattlesnake, coral, crabs (including decorator crabs, hermit crabs, hypochonca, spider crab), sea urchins, starfish (including brittle star, basket star), fish (including gobi, puffer fish, sergeant majors), manta ray (harpooning), plankton, shrimps (including pistol shrimp), lobsters, worms, octopus, mollusks (including rock oyster, burrowing paddock), comb jelly, seahorse, whales (chasing), iguanas (including, marine iguana, land iguana, tree iguana), giant tortoises, birds (including boobies, flamingos, pelicans, penguins, red billed tropicbirds, socorro sooty terns, albatrosses, white breasted cormorants, pelicans, guan), sloth, porcupine, coati. Flora: cacti (including barrel cactus, cholla cactus). ? Locales and dates: Craig Shipbuilding, Long Beach, California, USA, 1931 April 2. Los Angeles Harbor, California, USA, 1931 December. Guadalupe Island, Mexico, 1931-1941. San Benitos Islands, Mexico, 1931-1941. Tiburón Island, Gulf of California, Mexico, 1936 March 10-11. Agua Verde Bay, Gulf of California, Mexico, 1936 March 27. Floreana Island (Charles Island or Santa Maria Island), Galápagos Islands, Ecuador, 1934 January & December 5-6. Marchena Island (Bindloe Island), Galápagos Islands, Ecuador, 1934 December 12. Baltra Island (South Seymour Island), Galápagos Islands, Ecuador, 1933 or 1934 or 1938. Isabel Island, Mexico, 1932-1934 or 1937-1939. Cartago Bay, Isabela Island (Albemarle Island), Galápagos Islands, Ecuador, 1931-1941. Bird islands (Ballestas Islands and Lobos de Afuera Island, 1935 January 17 or 1938 February 14), Peru, 1935 January or 1938 February. Gulf of California, Mexico, 1940 January 28-29. ? Present are: Ray Elliott, C. McLean Fraser, Kalle "Karl" Hallikainen, Captain Allan Hancock, Emory Johnson, Trygve Nuggerud, Edwin O. Palmer, Robert Philippson, Frederick Ritter, Waldo L.S. Schmitt, Dore Koerwin Strauch, W. Charles Swett, Eloise Bosquet de Wagner Wehrborn “The Baroness”, Harry Wegeforth, the Wittmer family (Harry (eldest son), Heinz (father), Rolf (youngest son)), Fred Ziesenhenne, Lump (the Wittmer’s dog), Pansy (the elephant seal bull), Cheeko (the monkey), Gertie (the giant tortoise).