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[[blank page]] [[end page]] [[start page]] [[circled]] 61 [[/circled]] 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. [[line across page]] Last night to bed at 1:30 cleaned up and labeled stuff obtained in 20 fm. dredge haul over side at 20 fm anchorage. [[line]] Worms, sea urchins, sea cucumbers or ascidians again [[line]] Wealth of ascidians if chordates went in to vertebrates why would this not be the place [[line]] 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. [[double line]] 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.