Evening star., 1938-03-27
By JESSIE FAINT EVANS,


cialite, toward her present career a.
a woman explorer, lecturer and re.
search associate on the staff of DR.
William Beebe, famed scientist ex.
plorer of the New York Geological
Society.
DR.. Beebe was lecturing at the col
lege when his slide expert did not ar.
rive. Miss Hollister began her asso.
citation with the well-known scientis
with a successful substitution for tn,
missing operator
When I met her the other after.
noon at the home of her uncle ane
aunt, Mr.. and Mrs. Lester Wilson O.
20 Magnolia parkway, Chevy Chase
was amazed that this lowvoiced
devastatingly feminine young Junior
Lacquer could possibly be the Gloris
Holllster who had made two expedi
tions to the jungles of British Guinea
Neither, except for her slender
litheness, would have visualized hel
as the holder of the 1903 feet dee,
sea diving record for women. AS {
member Of the Bermuda Oceano.
graphic Expedition of the New Yorl
Geological Society headed by DR.. Beebt
l found she had been sealed in ths
expeditions famous bathysphere ane
lowered in it one-fourth of a mile
below seas surface.
Wins Cup for Dancing.
One evening at the exclusive Cora
Club in Bermuda, in chic swirlins
draperies, this amazing young scien.
tist topped off one of her diving dav,
by winning the silver cup offered fol
the best dancer of the fashioned
waltz.
From her bathysphere studies O
marine life in subsurface waters, ant
from the mysterious regions over !
mile below, Miss Hollister, by mean
OF what might be termed her "fisl
magic" has especially prepared 3Ot
specimens of fish.
Before the perfection of her methoe
every fish found in the Beebe seine.
had to undergo the routine processe.
Of being photographed, a paintin.
made for color and the specimen ther
dissected, since only by dissection
could the anatomical and skeleta
structures of the fish be observed
Because of the dissection process thu
bone structure knowledge resultins
therefrom was not always accurate.
Now. by the use of Miss Hollister'.
recently perfected transparency pro.
cess, the bony parts of a specimen art
tinted by a special red dye which
makes the fish transparent and pre-.
pares them for study without the
necessarily devastating processes o1
dissection. In geological circles this
is looked upon as a genuine contribu.
ton to anatomical laboratory work.
Works on Blue Dye Process.
A halfway humorous inquiry on my
part as to why she had neglected
blue in her color scheme for fishes
elected the further information that
she is seriously working on a blue
dye process to color cartilege. which
when it is perfected, ought to be quite
as advantageous as the red dye trans
parency magic for fish.
Trumps, wire-haired fox terrier
is Miss HOLSTERS constant companion
He has been her mascot on all of
her expeditions to Bermuda, often
appearing by special request" on the
lecture platform. His sense of timing
is so exact that he is invariably at
his mistress side ready to trot of
the platform at the exact moment
her lecture ends.
He is also a deep-sea diver of sorts
On the Bermuda expeditions
he thinks nothing of jumping of
heights OF as much as IS feet after
his stick, which he has first dropped
into the water. He is much chagrined,
too. when his own particular aquatic
expeditions meet with censure.
The study of all forms of nature
life was Gloria HOLSTERS absorbing
interest in school and out, Just as
olg-game hunting and photographing
with her father in Wyoming and
british Columbia became her favor
lite form of summer vacationing, and.
further, background for the scientific
of her young womanhood.
Won Honors at College.
Her specialization in biology at the
Hillside Preparatory School and her
selection of zoology as her major at
Connecticut College and Columbia
University gave her supremacy in
science which was only euualed by
her popularity among her classmates.
Thrice elected president of her un-
dergraduate classes, she was in her
senior year at Connecticut COLLEGE
the recipient of the highest honor
within the power of the college to
bestow-the presidency Of the Student
Government Association.
After two years under the great
DR.. Alexis Carrel Of the Rockefeller
Institute she was qualified to accept
the invitation which DR.. Beebe had
extended to her in the Connecticut
college days, when she had run of
the lantern slides for one of his lee
ture series before her colleagues.
Her first assignment with DR..
Beeoe was that of technical associate
IN the Department of Tropical Re-
search Of the New York GEOLOGICAL
Society.
Her progress since then has been q
series of remarkable achievements.
Not only has Miss Hollister had q
part from the beginning in the thrill
ing work Of the Bermuda Oceano-
graphic Expedition, and lectured upon
it with slides and moving pictures
but she has herself led two scientific
expeditions to British Guiana, In
South America.
During these expeditions, concern
ing which she has lectured before the
National Geographic Society in Wash
ington. she took pictures of the CAME
pheasant or hoatzin, a rare bird which
is thought to possess reptilian charac-
teristics in the claws on its wings.
Specimens Of this interesting spe-