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Feb 18/63 
9:45 = [[underlined]] 8 fms [[/underlined]]

This a.m. various small groups [[underlined, in blue]] of penguins [[/underlined]] [[insertion, line to text]] Jack saw one group of 15 [[/insertion]] going by  Jack saw several shags. Comdr says small penguin colony on S.E. end near or on strait bet. this id., Seymour, and Snow Hill. [[margin]] [[underlined, in blue]] gentoos [[/underlined]] [[/margin]] This Seymour is quite free of snow except last night's and this a.m.'s flurries, on brown hills as ^[[insertion]] light [[/insertion]] snow at home in streaks (reminded me of 1913 Snow in Berkeley Hills when closed schools for the day. What about thermal activity.
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Last night to bed at 1:30 cleaned up and labeled stuff obtained in 20 fm. dredge haul over side at 20 fm anchorage.
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Worms, sea urchins, sea cucumbers or ascidians again
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Wealth of ascidians if chordates went in to vertebrates why would this not be the place
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Have been under way since seven and at nine:45 are approaching N end (at N.E. end) of Seymour
[ [[underlined]] 9:55 a.m ship anchored [[/underlined]]
{Why not undertake drilling on all promising ids. 
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At 10.25 Jack came in and strongly advised me against going ashore because of "our" lack of heed of ice conditions and lack of knowledge of the often changeable weather hereabouts. I acceeded to his admonition particularly as he is our superior in the change of command concerned with the civilian personnel aboard.