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Dr. Francis Drouet of the Chicago Natural History Museum.
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Dr. Lois Eubank of Mills College, Oakland, California.

% Dr. Isabelle Abbott of the University of California at Berkeley.
Dr. G. J. Hollenberg of Redlands University, Redlands, California.
_ Dr. G. F. Papenfuss of the University of California at Berkeley.

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PIOACTIVITY
Radioautographs of Halimeda, Lyngbia, Udotea, Dictyota, Microdictyon

ryopsis have been made but are not shownin this report.
The frozen algae samples were ashed and counted by the standard procedure
ed in an earlier section.

After counting, the algae samples were grouped by

by species, and by phylogenetic relationship, and the activity of the samples
ressed as d/m/g - was tabulated.
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In Table2 the average count of all algae samples from the samelocality

sted according to descending order of activity.

The four areas at the top of

t list are in the vicinity of the Eniwetok Shot Islands and are followed by two
imples from the Bikini Target Area.

The average d/m/g for each species from all areas combined arelisted
;descending

order of magnitude in Table 3.

This listing indicates that the

bre succulent forms contain the highest activity.
din low water close to the shore line.

These algae as a rule were

As an example, Bryopsis was found

ng the shore on Engebi Island; it is succulent and had a high activity.

The

e can be said of Lyngbia, Scytomema, and Hormothamnion, In contrast, the

Orallines such asHalimeda, Lithothamnion, and Lithophyllum showed hardly any

ictivity even though also found along the shore.
Table 2 does not necessarily give a true picture of the algae activity by
gcality nor does Table 3 necessarily give a true picture of the algae activity by

pecies because all species were not collected in all areas. The range in values
fom a common area and the variation in values between species are shownin the
abulation below of the activity of the algae samples collected from Engebi, Eberiru,
nd Runit Isiands, Eniwetok Atoll:

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