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the phytoplankton at Sts. 532 and 533 described above, than mixing between the two 

 types of Weddell Sea water. This series of observations is insufficient to settle tlie point 

 definitely. 



The last station worked on this line, St. 536 to the north-east of Clarence Island, 



Fig. 46. Track chart showing the positions of the stations worked in the eastern Weddell 

 Sea by the R.R.S. 'William Scoresby', January-February 1931. 



presented a flora characteristic of the peculiar type of old surface water from the 

 Bellingshausen Sea which flows through Bransfield Strait. Towards the western end and 

 middle of the strait this flora seems fairly constant, being only slightly modified by 

 littoral and seasonal influences, but at the eastern end there is some degree of mixing 

 with Weddell Sea water in the eddy round Joinville Island. This, however, has but a 



