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There was a great deal of snow about and between some of the buildings 
moat of the other islands round-about and this one off the station area are 
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birds about, some Dominican gulls, Wilson' em petrols, and a giant petrel 
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Cur dredge, hauled over a rm& and sand bottom at 25 ffes«, brought us 
the first sponge of any appreciable else so far, a compact- siliceous one 
about 8 or 9 inches i n diameter; also worms $ a starfishj a number of sea- 
urchins j en alcyonarieni a bright yellow sea-slug} half-a-dosen sea-squirts; 
and a number of tiny red amphipods that either lived on that siliceous 
spur, e’s rough surface or in its canals. 
m the fish traps, after an overnight soak in J-1X fms *, 22 fish 
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ranging from 11 to lyp inches were foend, together with two starfish, and a 
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ellfh: eids on land lines. Or. the anchor, as it was hoisted, were two 
bri :• yellow prickly {ccft-spined} ascidians like the bright yellow sec 
slug :1a color, also, the first of their kind aeon on this trip 
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xuaon for this identical color in two widely differ 
life *. from the same general area, end at that not so far apart? 
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