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February 6, 7j 19^3 
Melchior lelanSs area, prinei|®.lly with reference to the Argentine Station 
located tore on Lambda Island. 
There was a great deal of snow about and between so»k of the buildings 
»506t of the other islands round-about and this one off 
station area are 
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heavily ice-»cap|^ci* lot mvmh eimrKse to sat up "buBinesa hare or the urge 
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to do so after seeing this site, i ka-v^ K*f^e K Ow/T Stiho^ 
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lone, no real oi^rtunlty for it while here,“T^ 
birds about, some Dominican gulls, Wilson’s storm petrels, and a giant petrel 
(brown phase) . 
Our dredge, hauled over a mud and sam bottom at 25 fiRS., brought us 
the first sponge of any appreciable size go far, a cojj^ct, siliceous one 
about 8 or 9 inches in diameter j also worms j a starfighj a number of sea- 
urchins j an alcyonarianj a bright yellow sea-slugj lialf-a-dozen sea-squirts j 
and a nuistser of tiny red amphipods that either lived on that siliceous 
Bpon e*3 rough surface or in its canals, 
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From the fish traps, after an overnight soah in 7-11 tvs.., 22 fish 
ranging from 11 to l4§ inches were found, t ogether with two starfish, and a 
"crop" of the OBmlpresent effiphlBode,y iFour other fish were taken over the 
ship's side on hand lines. On the anchor, as it was hoisted, were two 
bright yellow prickly (soft-splned) ascidlans like the bright yellow sea 
slug in color, also the first of their kind seen on this trip. Is there 
any reason for this identical color in two widely different fomu- of animal 
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life - from the same general area, and at that not so far apart?. 
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Lanbda was the only island visited during the short time spent in 
this area. From a marine biological point of view the biological potential 
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