 He learned that a sample of the integument was preserved in the Smithsonian Institution, and persuaded the curators to send a portion of the sample to his colleague, Dr. Joseph F. Gennaro Jr., a cell biologist at the University of Florida.Gennaro compared the connective tissue of the St. Augustine carcass to control specimens from known octopus and squid species.He published his findings in the March 1971 issue of "Natural History"