162 IOWA STUDIES IN NATURAL HISTORY 
had to pay for an automobile about one pound or $4.80 per trip; 
as it involved two round trips, the car being hired to come out 
from town and having to return to St. Johns after taking us back 
to English Harbor, the actual cost was nearly $10 per round 
trip. Sometimes, however, we went in the launch when the 
wind on the south coast was a little less violent than usual, and 
the cost was merely that of gasoline used at the rate of about 
fifty cents per gallon. 
Although exceedingly anxious to dredge off the coast of An- 
tigua, we were able to do almost nothing in that direction, as the 
seas were entirely too high to make dredging with the 27-foot 
launch at all safe. Several attempts were made and a few 
specimens secured, but it was precarious work at best, and we 
were finally forced to give it up, much to our regret, and con- 
fine ourselves to English Harbor, Falmouth Harbor, and Wil- 
loughby Bay. The bottom here, however, was usually covered 
with very fine mud or silt, which was far from rich in animal 
life, although some interesting mollusks were secured. 
The shallow water, shore, and reef fauna, on the contrary, 
was exceedingly rich and we soon found that our most profit- 
able course of procedure was to work this territory as intensive- 
ly as possible. There was, moreover, a considerable difference 
in the faune of the several harbors in the vicinity, and thus 
we found it profitable to work them all as thoroughly as prac- 
ticable. 
Our favorite collecting ground was near what we called 
‘‘Rocky Point,’’ across from Barclay Point and inside of the 
Pillars of Hercules. Here at low tide we almost daily reaped a 
rich harvest in the tide-pools and by lifting the loose-stones. 
This involved considerable hard work in the full glare of the 
tropical sun, and the continual bending over and lifting the 
often very heavy rocks made our backs ache. Three or four 
hours of this were enough for even the strongest of us. Al- 
bert’s great strength was utilized in this work to very good ad- 
vantage, and his zeal and intelligence added materially to our 
daily catch. 
The echinoderms were perhaps the most conspicuous group 
at this place, although most of the species were the same as those 
secured at Barbados. At the foot of the Pillars of Hercules, 
