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July 20,. 
Anchored off Braithwaite Bay, Socorro Island, at 8:30 a.m. The 
fishing hereabouts was of the best. There were plenty of leopard groupers, 
also several jacks, both brown and big-eyed, and spotted cabrillas. The 
President's piscatorial skill was rewarded with a 33~lb. blue crevally, 
Caranx stellatus . one of several. It proved to be the record specimen for 
that species, heretofore rather indefinitely recorded as weighing more than 
20 lbs. 
Members of the crew who assisted in the shore collecting and dredging 
at Socorro caught a mullet, Mugil setosus , which had not before been represented 
in the Museum collections. Among the crustaceans secured were three shrimp 
found living in passages, or burrows, which they constructed in the muddy sand 
under boulders alongshore. This species, Gall i ani de a laevi ca u da , is well 
known from the Floridian-West Indian region, hut ‘ecorded in litera- 
ture from Pacific waters, although I first saw a Pacific specimen of it from 
the Tres Marias Islands over a decade ago. 
A crude, weatherbeaten cross was discovered atop a large mound of 
earth a short distance from the landing place. The lettering, in Spanish, 
was all but illegible, "To the memory of the sailors ... March 8, 1924." 
Left Socori'o at 12:30 p.m. for Clipperton Island about 500 miles 
to the southward and 700 , more or less, from the nearest point on the main- 
land. 
July 21. 
An eventful day. A landing was made on Clipperton Island, the only 
true coral atoll in eastern Pacific waters 
The ship came to anchor at 10:55 a.m. in 72 fathoms. We got ashore 
