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gone, vith only a skeleton here and there to show they existed at all. 
I vender if this is natural retrogression from the time of the hurricane 
that made lyford Cay a part of the min island in tl)® l 800 's, or if mn 
has had something to do with it. Possibly a little of both. Cesrfcainly 
the boat canal that was dred^sd in the eastern part of the bay, with the 
months of silt-laden water that resulted from it did not help the coral. 
It will take some looking to find a reeflet to use as a base for this 
year * s operations . 
During the periods between squalls the boys collected hermit cjmbs 
and other inverts. The big hermits are in oinr pen at the end of the dock. 
Most of the other specimens are in bottles — except for ttose in Christy's 
aquarium. He has a fifteen gallon tank that we wheedled from Miami, and 
after jatchlng the leaks he set it up tawJer the protection of the thatched 
porch, covering it with a piece of corrugated cardboard. He made the 
mistake of setting things on this cover, and the first shower of rain 
one night soaked the cardboard and dropped it and its contents into the 
aquariim. Among other things on the lid was a small puffer in an open 
Jar of f ortjaldelyde . This brew finished off his little octopus, several 
stomatopods, a cone, some swollen eggs, and his planting of tturtle grass. 
Now we will have to start over. This tin^ be lias a board cover. 
The porch is not the only part of this house that lets in water. In 
fact, it coiaes in altoost everywhere. During each heavy rain we have towels 
spread at selected spots around our bedrooms in an effort to soak up some 
of the rain that coroes in. The fellow in Nassau who has the responsibility 
