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with a tracing of their brief survey of this area. A photographic copy of this is appended.

In the reef at either end is a sufficient opening for the passage of smaller vessels. The minimum depth at mean low water is 2-1/4 fathoms. Captain Picking tells me that he believes it might be a very simple matter to increase this depth if necessary without recourse to blasting.

As it happened, I did not visit this particular site, which Captain Picking discovered just before our departure from South Seymour, but I have utmost confidence in his judgment for all points of view, and I would therefore urge, unless other considerations should outweigh my recommendations, that the proposed laboratory be located at this place because of the very excellent harbor facilities and suitable terrain ashore for the construction of buildings. The rest of the land here, too, lends itself to the construction of a gunite watershed. In the wet season it seems probably that such an installation will permit sufficient water to be collected to last a small establishment through the dry [[strikethrough]] ss [[/strikethrough]] season. However, it is the consensus of opinion of the officers of the MALLARD [[strikethrough]] THAT THE [[/strikethrough]] that the most practical way of supplying water would be to haul it from Freshwater Bay, Chatham Island. At this place a small dam would have to be constructed so that a flexible pipe line might be laid a short distance off shore so that water could be taken without landing. Freshwater Bay is, unfortunately, on the south side of Chatham. Because of the prevailing winds, the southern exposures of all islands are generally bad landing places.

On May 1st I visited the National Museum of Panama, examined the collections, and encouraged Dr. Mendez to collect crustaceans both for his institution and for ours. At present there are only two