XIV -2 
# 53-63 
A forenoon ami afternoon dredge haul were costiined ai^ treated ae one; 
were nsade in 30 fathoms at the ship's anchorage, said bottom. Ab on such 
bottoms, worm tubes fom®d tl» bulk of the catch; a half -dozen species of 
amends were represented; on© small sipuneulid wormj starfislies, ophlurans, 
and the largest holothurian yet takes; there were also a few coelenterate 
snimls, stalks ones attaclMfd to small pieces of rock; and two long rope- 
like strands of colonial aselSian. Am>ther of these, la^-inch in diaE^ter 
"ropes" was brought to me by a taei*>er of the ship's recreation party that 
was put ashore in the late afterm^n* Also a dried pyonogonid. ( decalopoca 
antarctica) was picked up on the beach; as well as a speci«n of "krill” 
from near the south of a small «lt-wat©r stream flooded by the tide. Of 
the great windrows of algae on the beach a few samples were saved. 
Here we lost the two trups that we te,ve been using regularly of late. 
So mny and such large icebergs jioved in on shore that we could m>t locate 
the trap floats. We still had am trap in reserve ai^ the engimering 
department on tivs Staten Island quickly cotistructed u® another out of wire 
that I had pureJsssed in Hew Zealand for such a contingency. But 
tlicre was no opportunity to imdertake a second trial here. 
Boxigbly, the biological potential hereabouts, fro® t’ms marim? bio- 
logical point of view, rather© good or better, bird and plant life are 
scanty.* 
* I think Lenton report rereirks that easm aaritm biological work was 
carried on here in 1951-52. Shall cheek. 
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