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fied from time to time by the National Museum which thus has a repre- 
sentative set of the material. This collection is wholly from the 
island of St. Thomas and consists of not less than 208 species, and 
in excess of six to seven thousand specimens. In addition he has an 
interesting lot of Crustacea of which he gave me a number of dried and 
pickled specimens of species we were not successful in obtaining in the 
course of our own collecting. Especially worthy of mention is a large 
specimen of Mac robrachim jamai cense something over 20 inches long over 
body and extended claws® This is a first record* so far as I can as- 
certain, of the species from the Virgin Islands* 
Next we proceeded to Coral Bay, St. John, April 6, and then on 
to Cruz Bay April 6-7 » where we were entertained by Dr. George Hughes, 
Resident Commissioner* Collections were made at both stops. Most 
unfortunately. Dr. Hughes had a bad fall while showing us an old ruin 
just before dark. He slipped from the edge of an old exterior stone 
stairway ^ and but for temporary inconvenience seemed none the worse for 
his twelve or fifteen foot fall. Not until we returned to St. Thomas 
on the way home - - two and a half weeks later - - did we learn that he 
had broken three ribs. 
The early afternoon of the seventh, we left for St. Croix, 
experiencing some of the worst weather of the whole trip on the way over, 
rather severe rain squalls and a great dead of motion* If one examines 
the harbor chart of Christiansted, he will see that it is one of the 
meanest harbors imaginable to enter and none too well buoyed. The 
entrance channel makes two sharper than right-angled bends foraing a 
regular letter Z. In we went, in a driving rain and the poorest kind 
of visibility. Wondering why no pilot came out to show us the way in, 
we learned after we dropped the anchor that coming through that tortuous 
channel amid the dangerous reefs for which Christiansted Harbor is known, 
just isn*t done after dark. Our rare, unprecedented feat caused a M nine 
days’* wonderment ashore, in fact a goodly portion of the populace turned 
out to see it done when they saw our searchlight picking up landmarks. 
St. Croix was one of the main objectives of the carcinological 
end of the cruise. It was here that one of our good correspondents, 
Mr. Harry S. Beatty, had secured some time previous a specimen of the 
rare grapsoid crab Pac hygraubus aorrugatus von Martens first described 
in 1879 and not taken again until received from Beatty. With Kai 
Essraan, the owner of the Judith Fancy estate, I combed the shores of 
the bay of that name where Beatty found this specimen, but without 
success. Regrettably, Beatty was absent on a collecting trip to 
Venezuela and not available to point out to us the exact place and 
conditions under which Ms crab was taken. It was through the kindness 
of Mr. Anthony Work, assistant to Mr. Harry E. Taylor, the Administra- 
tor of St. Croix, and Ms wife that we met Mr. Essman and a number of 
