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of sierra mackerel and yellowfin tuna, the first of taken on this 
cruise. A turn at bottom fishing by the President yielded a number of speci- 
mens of two species of demoiselles. Ashore, the dried skeleton of a cornet- 
fish was pickedfup, while a search of the tidepools yielded several small, 
young sea bass, a host of juvenile sergeant majors, gobies, eight little 
rock fish, and about fifteen pilot fish, Doydix o d on f retain vi 11 ei , new to 
the Museum's collection. 
July 25. En route Tagus Cove, Albemarle Island, Galapagos. 
) Left Sulivan Bay at 6:58 a.m. King Neptune came aboard a little 
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before nine o f clook and then the fun began# This 51 stupendous 11 affair t 
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colorful spectacle that it was, rates a book. I could not possibly do it 
justice in a few lines. It was beyond compare the grandest of my sir round 
trips across the Line. The Senior Shellback saw the whole thing through 
from the start to the finish, about 2:00 p.m. During that time some four 
hundred pollywogs were given the works. 
As soon as the ship was safely at anchor off Tagus Cove, following 
the Neptune party, the fishermen put off. An interesting lot of fish were 
found. The President's bottom fishiw in the cove, among other species, 
gathered in the first specimens the National Museum ever received of a 
demoiselle peculiar to the Galapagos Islands, Nexilosus albemarleus . origin- 
ally described by Heller and Snodgrass from this self-same landlocked harbor 
where they had collected it nearly 40 years before our visit. 
The President also hooked our first of several threadfin bass. 
It is a rather rare species. To all appearances, this bass was a good pan 
fish. As no one seemed to have any information on the subject and nothing 
on the score could be found in any publications available on board, the 
