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neaertean yorm} included in the haul was our first living barnacle j sosie 
several stalked, white ascldians that had 
look 
of ”Jack»in> 
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haul wag mde while at anchor off Snow Hill Island on 
17 February, in 1 ^ 4-15 fathoiae, on a bottom of mid so tough stiff that 
it was like handling silicon put-^, or a tough synthetic rubber mass. In 
this haul we found a strange polyp, the type of coelenterate represented 
I do not knowj there were also a nensertean worm, three species of annelids j 
several sea-urchins in part fr^^ssjntedj s<ms bivalve mo Husks j end the first 
two cussaceans so far seen (cumceans are small, often tiny shrimp-like 
erufitaoeanfi, botttsa feeders) . 
fwo other dredge hauls coi^ined, were nade in 12 fathome over a tena- 
ciot^ mud-cemented sand bottom on the 19 th, This time we got more worms j 
a starflshj bydroids j a piece of an aloyonairlanj one tiny amphipodj and a 
number of small living clsr^, and 
interesting of all 
were 
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this 
hopi«d onto a fish trap let down over the side of the anchored ship on 
the night of the l8th, supposedly a fathom or two off the bottom so that 
the trap would not drag os the ship swung with wind and/or tide. The 
trap hauled up the morning of the 19th held nothlr^ else of consequence. 
a fragment of a yellow sponge, and scraps of algae. 
Tried this ’’etunt” the night of the 19th but lost the trap as some 
Ice cake or berg coining alongside during the night carried it off. There 
