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Aug. 1930 - Continued 
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If fingers are tender or skin is scratched or broken, Millepora gives 
quite a bite, painful as formalin in cut fingers. Also through khaki pants 
if you sit on it.Fishermen and Key Westers call it pepper coral; not a bad name. 
Alcyonarians give off a pungent, acrid substance. Can smell it in 
water, and after some rough weather one can appreciate it on or in water 
while swimming. 
August 16, 1930, Saturday. 
A day of misc. much and nothing. In afternoon, while packing and 
fiddling. Dr. Longley asked me is this Saturday or Sunday. I answered Sat. 
OhJ said he, I thought it might be Sunday. (By way of remainder?) However, 
Gowanlock went out with launch for another sunning and so escaped special notice 
or got credit for being busy.' 
The C. marginatus I saw in tide pool yesterday evening while walking 
around island with Bullington and Visscher I did not see this a.m., nor on 
two later visits this p.m. after supper, both before and after sunset. I 
don’t know how outside of claws are colored,but inside largely china blue 
and white. Paddles particularly and paddles a sort of rufous and the carapace 
is mottled in roughly circular areas of a tan (rufous category) and blue-black 
and black blue green, I guess. Nothing very striking at distance. 
Between 10:00 and 11:00 went with Dr. Longley to put charge of dynamite 
in sandy mud flat of seining beach at Long Key. Blew a k -foot diameter hole 
about 2^-3 feet down, but got nothing much, though I raked around considerably 
with dip net sifting through sand and mud and sorting over remaining coral 
fragments. Got bbout six of odd little Squillas I dug up with Callianassas 
and 
some days ago, a Crangon, and 2 Upogebias,/a small Peneus. Color noted the 
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last two items. 
