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represented in the ■i*ational collections V7ere made at runta Arenas, Chile, •f' 
■before r.iiifl .iflrrr visiting the Falkland Islands. |^ Port Stanley, Falklands, v/as ^ 
reached after what I considered a rather ^ierapestuous passage, in which the ^ 
galley of the small schooner in v/hich the journey v;as made was flooded, the 
vegetables and potatoes washed overjJ-board , and the motor-room hatch stove in. 
All this in the course of v/hat the Captain called fairly good weather! The 
Falklands are well-known in historical annals <&hiefly through the visitations 
of Darwin, the Challenger, and the collections of Mr. Bupert Valient in. ^ , 
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Most helpful assistance was Extended me throughout ■ noarl -y a month's stay 
on Mast Falkland by xhe Governor, the Colonial officials, and all the private 
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citizens with whom I came in contact. The interest of the school boys of 
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Stanley caused them to bring in a number of specimens which rai^rht otherwise 
not have been obtained, while a brief talk to a class.at Teal Inlet resulted in 
the establishing a new record of the occurrence of one of the rarer shrimps l-l 
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secured by Miss Eileen Felton from the roots of kelp hauled from water about 
tv/o fathoms in depth, for the purpose of fertilizing the fields^ 
Campylonotus vagans Bate, heretofore known from the Straits of 
Magellan, Cape horn and South Gebo'^i^ yaking advantage of an opportunity offered 
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v/hile in the Falklands, a trip was made via the once yearly mail to Deception 
Island of the South Shetlands, the headquarters of the whaling industry of that 
region, -^n route several tov/net hauls yielded a number of organisms nev/ to the 
seum collections. 
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^In^the course of return journey , L-jii'i /some coliectioiB 
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were secured at several ports in iirgentin^ Patagonia; Rio Gallegos, Santa Cruz, 
,0an Julian, Deseado, Commodore Rividavi a.and Ibierto Madryn. '.’-hile at 
Buenos Aires, ^Sa^e ro<V t- oB]iidin!a i.. pola t " ' BnB wore ■ i^e eBl iabliD>h ' »d with Dr. Doello-Jurado , 
Director of the Argentine National Museum, 
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a loan of furthers study collections 
At Sao Paulo, Brazil, the i^niseo 
Faulista from v/hi ch we have 
