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tacles are sepia brown, with narrow cross lines of 
pale green. I have put these in jars and am mag- 
nesium sulphiting them, hoping to get them distended 
today. At the end of the Journal I will give a list 
of the tags used. 
Have a beastly cold. % nose is streaming like 
a river and I am barking worse than the dogs, and that 
is saying a good bit. 
We had a visit from Captain , in 
charge of the Coast Guard steamer Pinar del Rio. Tem- 
perature at 7:30 P.M. was 75. 
May 12th:- 
Simpson, Clapp, Rodrigues, the Patron, and Sidney 
went ashore for Cerions. I stayed aboard to help 
Gill with the painting, and to take care of the rest 
of the specimens gathered yesterday. 
De la Torre and the noisy fish expert went ashore 
for ice and chicken and the boat has a Sunday atmosphere. 
Temperature 6 A.M., Air: 75 ; water, 32. 
Discovered newspapers aboard, brought by De la Torre, 
and make the clippings from them, which follow below: 
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