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This island station is located at the tiny settlement where a remnant 

 of a Scandinavian fishing colony was represented by three families, with 

 relatively adequate living facilities by Galapagos standards. The industry 

 apparently was not thriving at the time of our visit. At the edge of the 

 settlement a narrow rocky channel at the base of a high cliff led back into 

 a lagoon behind the houses. This cliff was crowned by a spectacular 

 growth of candelabralike cacti (Cereus Thouarsit), and of arborescent 

 Opuntia echios gigantea. This is a famous and often-described locality 

 (Howell 1934). The rocks accessible about Academy Bay did" not yield 

 many intertidal algae, although here small collections of Blossevillea and 

 Padina were made. On the roots of the mangroves, which grew in white 

 mud in the lagoon, there was the familiar vegetation of BostrychiUj Cate- 

 nella, Caloglossa, and Rhizoclonium. 



However, the dredging done at this locality by Dr. C. McL. Fraser 

 while the shore party was busy was a spectacular success. Unfortunately 

 no depth data seem to have been kept; from the t>'pes of plants included 

 the range must have been great, from a few meters below low tide line 

 to pretty deep water, and probably several hauls were made. About a 

 dozen kinds of algae secured here seem not to have been previously 

 described. By far the most notable was a fine Eisenia (E. galapagensis) in 

 good quantity, the only kelp found at the Galapagos and quite outside the 

 expected range for a plant of this group. It was secured at other Galapa- 

 gos stations at approximately 50 meters' depth, so probably grew at that 

 depth here also. The other Phaeophycean genus represented was Spato- 

 glossum, and of Rhodophyceae Sarcodiotheca, Acrosoriu7n, Delesseria, 

 Myrio gramme, Nitophyllum, Pleonosporium, Platytharnnion, and Chon- 

 dria all yielded novelties. There were also a number of interesting things 

 not described as new from this station but from other Galapagos sites, 

 and some which were known elsewhere than the Galapagos but appeared 

 here as unexpected elements in the flora, such as Desmarestia munda. 

 This, after the I. Santa Maria stations, was the best in the Galapagos for 

 dredging. 



IsLA San Cristobal^^ 



Of the perhaps but four regularly settled places in the Galapagos at 

 the time of our visit, only two had any considerable number of people, one 

 a plantation on I. Isabela which we did not visit, and the other the little 

 settlement on I. San Cristobal (Chatham I.). Though the port, Wreck 

 Bay, had few, there were more people inland at the village, which we did 



35 7izV., p. 226, pis. 119, 120. 



