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li£e worm tubes were in this drag by the thousands, along with some clam, 
and nemertean worms; included in the haul was our first living barnacle; 
some alcyonarians; and several stalked, white ascidians that had much 
the look of "Ja,ck-in-the-pulpits." 
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Another dredge haul was made while our anchor off Snow Hill Island on 
IT February, in 14-15 fms., on a bottom of mud so tough and stiff that 
it was like handling silicon putty, or a tough synthetic rubber mass. In 
this haul we found a strange polyp, the type of coelenterate represented 
I do not know; there were also a nemertean worm, 3 species of annelids; 
several sea-urchins in part fragmented; some bivalve mollusks; and the 
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first cumacean so far seen (Cymaceans are small, often tiny shrimp-like 
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crustaceans, bottom feeders). 
Two other dredge hauls combined, were made in 12 fms. over a tena¬ 
cious mud-cemented sand bottom on the 19 th. This time we got more worms; 
a starfish; hydroids; a piece of an aloyonairian; one tiny amphipod; and 
a number of small living clams, and some dead shells. 
Perhaps the most interesting of all specimens that were secured in 
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this area were three large, red sea-spiders pycliogonids. These had 
hopped onto a fish trap let down over the side of the anchored ship on the 
night of the l 8 th, supposedly a fathom or two off the bottom so that the 
trap would not drag as the ship swung with wind and/or tide. The trap 
hauled up c/ the morning of the 19 th held nothing else of consequence, a, 
fragment of a yellow sponge, and scraps of algae. 
Tried this "stunt" the night of the 19 th but lost the trap as some 
ice cake or berg coming alongside during the night carried it off. 
