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Saturday March 28 1931
Ocala Florida
It rained during the night and up to nine A.M.
It then began to clear up and the afternoon promises well.
At 12.30 I had the same cat take me out to the
same quarries, and spent in all the afternoon in the East
quarry of yesterday. Saw over go echini and crabs of
these are of the smaller kinds and some kinds I had not seen
before.
As far as one can see the mollusca fauna is not a
large one, but this may be due to the fact that most
of the bivalves and all the gastropods are dissolved away.
Saw one crab yesterday. May have come from the echini.
The fauna is depauparate, no bivalve over 3 1/2
inches across and perhaps no gastropod at all but 3 1/2 inches.
Of crabs I saw during the four last days not one significant
one. Is it the lime bottom or the form of the cause of the small
size of many animals.
The bulk of the preserved fauna there are in quantity,
first the large foraminifera, second the beetum, third
the crusts of mollusks, fourth the echini, and last the
gastropods.
Packed up all the finds and had the hotel people
ship it on Monday by Express collect.
I leave Sunday morning at 7 A.M. on train
to St. Augustine.