INTRODUCTION 
The following is a resume of the biological investigations carried 
out at the sites visited by your Survey party in and about the Palmer 
Peninsula, Antarctica, and the South Shetland Islands. These are set 
forth in 18 sections I to XVTII more or less chronologically and geo¬ 
graphically arranged under the heading "Site Investigations," as follows: 
I. January 18=20; M arguerite Bay area - Adelaide Island, Base T, 
Avian Island, Rothera, Point. 
II. January 22-25; and March 1; Arthur Har b or ar ea, - British Base N 
Bonaparte Point and vicinity, Janus Island, Torgeson Island. 
III. January 26-27, and March 1; Port Lock r oy - Dorian Bay area, - 
Base A. 
IV. January 27-31; Argentine Islands area - Lemaire Channel, Dan- 
neborg Islands, Berthelot Islets (British Base is on Gal- 
indez). 
V. February 1-3, and March 2; P aradis e Harbor ar ea, - including 
Chilean, Gabriel Gonzales Videla. Base... and the Argentine, 
Almirante Brown Station. 
VI. February 4, 5 \ Daneo-C6uver il ie Island area. 
VII. February 6, J; Me lchior Islands are a. 
VIII. February 8-10; Wilhelmina, Bay - Svend Foyn Harbor - Sulvensen 
■ 3.i m ~^ 1 ■ s "-" s *-"-■* ™ 1 ‘ 1 — u ■ * — • -■!*■■=»u mj -s **■■*& ■i mum t j i 
Cove area . 
IX. February 10, 11, 23 and 24; B rialmo n t Cove, Al co ck I s lan d, 
Spring Point. 
