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#58-63 
Mosses and. lichens were collected ashore on each of our visits to the 
Cove, February 10-11, and 23-24, at Alcock Island and at Spring Point. 
In spray-fed pools, or rather pockets of water among the rocks on a rocky 
islet that is virtually a part of Alcock, we dip-netted with a fine meshed 
net the young stages of some amphipod, along with the algae that were 
growing in the same little bodies of water. 
Two dredge hauls were made here. The first on February 11, in 35 fms. 
off the ship where the bottom may best be described as a "regular concrete 
mix", sand, gravel and good-sized stones. Some of the stones and larger 
pieces of gravel carried encrusting bryozoans. There were also a few 
small worms, amphipods and bits of algae in the dredge. That our dredge 
did not bring up more bottom dwelling organisms may have been due to the 
inadequacy of our equipment for this type of bottom or that the place in 
which dredge was dropped was rather barren. Only another drag might tell. 
That opportunity was vouchsafed us on the 24th of February. This time 
there was mud mixed in with the gravel in a depth of 18 fathoms. The 
dredge when brought up was quite alive with a variety of invertebrates: 
3 or more specis of worms; disintegrated bits of some jelly-fish like or¬ 
ganism; hydroids; an aloyonarian or antipatharian; both branching and 
latticed bryozoans; starfish; 1 tiny opiuran; and several crinoids, the 
first time that we have taken them in numbers. 
What might we have not gotten in other parts of the cove if there 
had been time and the facility for carrying our oil-drum dredge about 
in it. 
We almost lost one of our fish traps here beneath a small iceberg. 
