APPENDIX A 



LOCATION AND DESCRIPTION OF PONDS OF THE AREA 



The ponds of the Woods Hole area have been discussed, and 

 under each species of pond copepod here described has been given 

 a list of the ponds in which it has been found. It only remains, 

 therefore, to locate the various ponds and to give such information 

 concerning them as may have an influence upon their fauna. For a 

 great majority of the ponds it has been considered sufficient to desig- 

 nate them as salt, brackish, or fresh, without giving the exact 

 salinity. In a few instances, however, the name of the pond is mis- 

 leading, or copepods have been found in it that do not elsewhere 

 inhabit water of that salinity, and for these reasons the exact 

 salinity is stated. 



The names here given are those used by the people who live 

 around the shores of the ponds and do not always correspond with 

 those appearing on maps. In all instances of discrepancy both 

 names are recorded in order to establish the identity of the pond. 



PONDS IN WOODS HOLE 



Eel Pond. — Salt water becoming brackish around the mouths of fresh-water 



brooks that empty into it. A large pond in constant communication with 



the ocean, containing much vegetation and with a muddy bottom. 

 Penzance Pond. — Salt water. A very small pond on Penzance Neck, filled by 



the tide at high water. 

 Little Harbor. — Salt water. A bay opening directly into Vineyard Sound and 



containing much vegetation. 

 Quissett Pond. — Brackish water. A small pond on the shore of Quissett Harbor 



just above high-tide level, but so near to Buzzards Bay as to catch the 



spray during a storm ; filled with water plants. 

 Mill Pond.— Fresh water. Within the village of Woods Hole and filled with 



blanket algae. 

 Fresh Pond. — Salinity 0.4993. A small pond close to the ocean on the road 



leading from Woods Hole to Nobska Lighthouse ; vegetation rather limited. 

 Lily Pond. — Fresh water. A very small pond filled with waterlilies just north 



of Nobska Lighthouse. 

 Small unnamed ponds beside the road leading from Woods Hole to Falmouth, 



most of them mere pools choked with vegetation. 



PONDS IN FALMOUTH OUTSIDE OF WOODS HOLE 



Ice Pond. — Fresh water. A small pond north of Quissett Harbor, shallow and 



full of vegetation. 

 Flax Pond.— Fresh water. Another small pond still farther north, also shallow 



and full of vegetation. 

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