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panions superintended Mrs. Jarrett's efforts to fry our 

 ham and eggs in the station frying pan, which was found 

 to have a considerable perforation in its centre. 



Immediately after eight o'clock breakfast the biological 

 work began, and lasted till dark. Mr. Alfred Leicester ex- 

 plored the Island, high and low, for land mollusca, and suc- 

 ceeded in finding three snails {Zonites alliarius, Z. nitidulus, 

 and Helix virgata) previously unrecorded. Mr. Harvey 

 Gibson followed the retreating tide downwards foot 

 by foot as he searched the shore for Algae. Mr. 

 Thompson and I initiated the keeper into the mysteries 

 of tow-netting for the purpose of making collections of 

 surface life. We went out in the punt with our nets and 

 bottles, and coasted as far as we dared venture in that frail 

 craft along the lee side of the Island, getting abundant 

 gatherings as we went, and storing up the Copepoda and 

 Diatoms in tubes (duly labelled), which will give many an 

 hour of hard work at the microscope to our specialists 

 before the results are known, and the lists printed in our 

 reports. Later on we all assembled on the reefs opposite 



Fig. 4. — View of Puffin Island from the end. of the South Spit at low 

 tide. The best collecting ground is amongst the Laminaria and boulders 

 shown in the front of the figure. 



