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Inscription on [[insertion]] 2 story [[/insertion]] building [[insertion]] with stairway to gallery [[/insertion]] - Melchior (Argentine) Base
= "Les Eclaireurs" ventosas Rivas Primero [[insertion]] 1°[[/insertion]] Viage de Turismo
            22/1/58

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I asked Capt. Mac to photo this for Roger.
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Feb. 6/63
Wednesday

[[circled]] Melchior [[/circled]]
Are we (is U.S.A.R.P.) financing thesis work for students?
We were to have had a recon flight over the Melchior Ids. but heavy rain fog etc. precluded flying. Instead, at 10 we put off with shore party for Argentine Base here on Gamma Id. 
Here as at  " " [[dittos for: Argentine Base]] on Paradise Bay quite a bit of snow about, it covered piers of a former radio tower with a 50 foot ice (+ snow cliff) After landing [[insertion]] [the] [[/insertion]] shore group, ^[[insertion]] [[I (we)] [[/insertion]] set fish traps in 5 & 11 fms. off point [[strikethrough]] caring [[/strikethrough]] carrying radio tower, then made a tow net haul with netted us one copepod (plus apparently nothing discernible more). Were recalled to ship at 10.50 or so to carry out our steel drum dredge for a haul back to ship. This as with previous ones by Bosn Wright was rich, varied, and quite different. Yellow nudibranch, a lot of ascidians including a number of purplish-black parchment skinned specimens, a number of worms, clams one large nereid, and a good sized globular sponge, (1/3 is being dried, 2/3's frozen.
Dominican gulls
Wilsons storm petrel
[[strikethrough]] Pe [[/strikethrough]] Giant petrel, brown phase

[[boxed text]] On building ashore record of Argentine excursion on which Roger Eisenger went to Antarctic. [[/boxed text]]

Afternoon put all pints and odd jars in plastic bags and in turn put these in gallon jars rece'd from Eng. "N". base Argentine Ids Base. Really ready to start over also got two qts formalin; and by bagging [[strikethrough]] got [[/strikethrough]] obtained about 2 gals more formalin solution for use on spec's to be collected yet.

Transcription Notes:
USARP stands for United States Antarctic Research Program fms = fathoms