Field Notebook: Bermuda, New Brunswick, Quebec, Vermont 1929
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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