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gash 3 feet below the waterline was only skin deep and that our cruise 
had not been brought to an untimely end. 
Working along the shore ’of the large lagoon at the north end of 
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the Island, Dr, Clarke hit upon a unique and an exceedingly productive 
method of gathering in the small beach-life commonly found in and under 
the wrack left by wave and tide on many shores— throw son® of this stranded 
flotsam in the water close by. Everything alive in it apparently aware that 
it would soon become part of some hungry fish's meal, makes all haste to 
get out of the "drink." Should the wet trouser leg of the collector who 
started all this be closer at hand than the beach, it becomes crowded 
with little arthropods frantically seeking refuge— insects , ayriapode, 
and beach-fleas. Thus it becomes an easy matter to pick them off with 
forceps or scrape them up with the lip of a bottle or vial. It's a 
superlative method. Another way of capturing these ubiquitous creatures 
is to buy a not too shallow pan, 2 to 3 inches deep, with about an inch 
of 5 percent formaldehyde solution in the bottom, so that its edge is 
level with the surface of the sand. Leave it out overnight and the next 
morning you will be rewarded with a rich haul of specimens. 
April 10 saw us back in Ascenstbn Bay, Quite shallow for the 
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most part like Eepirltu Santo, it is somewhat larger, perhaps 8 
miles across the entrance and varying from 5 to 11 miles wide inside. 
It- extends back into the land some 1 6 miles. This great bay has about 
everything a marine biologist could want in the way of good collecting 
