August 25, 1964 (cont.) partially done in the afternoon and finished Wed. morning, Aug. 26. Algae were collected in the lagoon, in the hole where fish were also collected and on the seaward reef edge. only Caulerpa serrulata was seen, in wide-spreading patches. as an occasional clump. In the lagoon attached to the sandy bottom Halimeda strepoa was present only Last August it was common. The algae in the deep hole were abundant and of several species. On the reef edge Halimeda, Dictysphalsia intermedia and the Porolitham types were most common. Collecting on the reef was difficult because of the heavy surf." (Sneddon, in attempting to photo- graph the reef edge, was upended and skidded over the coral, ceiving a number of cuts. re- L.R.D. got a similar treatment--but less severe for he had no camera to protect.) Invertebrates were also collected for K. Bonham, who was confined to the ship with infection in his legs. In addition to the usual invertebrates 5 Birgus were collected. Three were giant-size smoked from Messerschmidia trees by Wm. Allen. The smoking process caused a fire to start in one of the trees that took the combined efforts of our group and the crew to finally extinguish. One small coconut crab was intended for Ed's collec- tion but inadvertently K.B. put it in the freezer. Fish were collected in the "deep hole" with poor success.