Robert S. Standen was born in 1941, and worked as a Technical Assistant for the Pacific Ocean Biological Survey Program, 1964-1965. Standen is the author of an explanatory description of the sand islands of Kure, Midway, and Pearl and Hermes atolls : Hawaiian Islands.
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Smithsonian Institution Archives. Record Unit 000245, National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Pacific Ocean Biological Survey Program, Records, circa 1961-1973, with data from 1923. Box 241, Folder 1 entitled "Personnel cards, giving address, phone, relatives; personal data."