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Several species of small marine bivalve shells, Evi-
dently the wind blew these marine shells along with
the shell sand, and he nails all together in the ore bed,
Made a small collection and later on clean-ed them.
Saturday Jan 12- 1929
A warm sunny morning, so concluded to walk
to the Flatts Vill age (near five miles east)
and have lunch at Frascatti.
This place is where O'Neill stopped and collected.
Therefore thought I would get a lot of sea life to
see, and I did but most of it is in the Aquarium built
in 1936. Here one sees a splendid collection of tropical
fishes, nearly all three shaw have fight arms, On many
of the tanks are anemones, the common one an ivory
white with long and thick tentacles attracts to one first.
(He said to be the largest in Bermuda.)
The tentacles are slowly waving but not more than
one inch, and often a whole bunch will move together
slowly in one direction as the he other. The impulse
of change is rather rapid, but the motion is very slow.
They show about 40-5 kinds of anemones. The fishes were
trunk to the tentacles.
The Haell echinus pink very long and slender
spine is also known, One was crawling and it spread
its tentacles both easily more than 3/8 of an inch. The little
ones near the bottom are most active and are evi-dently