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February 15* 17-19* 1963 
Seymour Island. - Snow Hill area. 
Seymour Island has about as large or perhaps larger snow-free area 
as any place we have seen to date. It is a soft and muddy place; one 
could almost call the soil, loam, so soft is it, but nothing much grows 
on it. Saw and gathered very little plant material ashore. 
"Amid-ships" toward the south is a great "alluvial" river valley 
with running water and tributary streams, some, though, at this time of 
year were much reduced in volume. 
Few birds, fewer seals, about. One dead one, very old carcass, only 
skin and bones left, was found in a, gully toward the south end of the 
island. 
The island is a barren looking place so far as animal and plant life 
was concerned when we were there. 
Paleontologically, the island has quite a different "face." Much 
has been done here in this line. I do not know how much more remains to 
be done. This would bear looking into. Mr. Berg, and the Commodore in 
a brief space of time secured a number of highly interesting fossils, 
wood, bone, and shell specimens. 
Most zoologists are interested in paleontological doings, for them 
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It is but fossil zoology. 
As to recent organisms: From the.^hip lying to in the ice off Sey¬ 
mour Island a few hours on February 15, two hauls were made in 38 fins, 
over a rock, sand, and gravel bottom, because they were made at the same 
place and were so similar, the results were treated as one. Tnin, thread- 
