02-08/09/1969 - Travel to Christmas Island by S.S. Triadic
09/09 - Collecting at reef/intertidal pools below "manager's house"
Caulerpa sp. "diff from WA spp.", many opisthobranchs, many different species of muricid, 1 Puteriid[?], 1 Arcid, 3 species of Brittle Star, Echinometra mathaei(?), crabs, observed mudskipper fish.
10/09 On Settlement Road collected 3 spp. land snail, collected specimens of slates and beetles 1 sp. of each.
11/09 Island touring, noting observed and collected insects, crabs and spiders.
13/09 Collecting at Flying Fish Cove.
15/09 Collecting at Cantilever Jetty.
16/09 Collecting at Ethel Beach. Specimens include Colobocentrotus, Caulerpa, opisthobranch (dark green), Lobiger(?) (2 sp), Stiliger(?) and 2 specimens of holothurian.
17/09 Collecting at Smithison's Bight.
18/09 Collecting at West White Beach. Specimens taken, 2 cowries, Acropora sp., Coral, some cones, varsids, 1 Pectinid, 1 abalone, 1 new starfish.
19-20/09 Curating and processing collection
21/09 Collecting at reef under "manager's house". Specimens taken; Cylichna (green and orange), bivalves, muricids, banded shrimp (brown and cream), soft coral. rock samples with Phascolosoma worms, tubeworms and a Lithophaga.
22/09 Curated collection.
23/09 Collecting at Lily Beach. Specimens; cones-cowries, histrio, mauritiana, caputserpentis. 10 specimens of Turbo lajonkairii, 1 Rapana (Coralliophila), small Thaid[?] like muricids, weed samples, observed 5 species of echinoids.
24/09 Collecting at Flying Fish Cove. specimens taken few spp. of terebras, 2 spp. of mitra, few cones, Drupa, turbinids (Turbo lajonkairii and Astraea sp. (helicina)), 6 Latirus nodatus, Quoyula sp. (Montipora?), observed many Centrechinus (Diadema?)
25/09 and 26/09 Processing and curating collection.
27/09 Collecting at Dolly Beach, observed "slate pencil" like sea urchins, one with parasitic gastropod, collected some cowries.
28/09 Collected on beach, observed large numbers of washed up larval stage crabs.
29/09 Curated collection.
30/09 Curated collection, collected 3 specimens of small red land snail near golf course.
01/10 Collecting at Flying Fish Cove. terabras amd 1 mitra, sea urchins, 2 Cypraea isabella, 1 Fissurellid (Eligidian type), large starfish, 1 clam, 3 Pectinids, 1 Hydatina, green opisthobranchs, holothurians.
02/10 Collecting as Dales. Collected Nerita costata, Nerita plicata(?), Littoraria undulata, 1 Tectarius granularis?, observed Fissurellids (Notomella type) and "true" limpets, muricids, vermetids, Isognomanids, Echinometra mathaei, Colobocentrotus, Centrostephanus, 1 Diadema.
03/10 Took barge to go diving and collecting. Location one - Japansese shipwreck near No. 1 Beach on North Coast. Collected Turbo lajonkairii, T. pethiolatus, Trochus maculetus, "small scallops etc". Location two - Lost Cave between No. 1 and No. 2 Beaches, collected bryozoa and nudibranches. Collected on West White Beach and Flying Fish Cove.
04/10 Collected at West White Beach and No. 2 Beach.
05/10 Collected at Greta Beach.
07/10 Collected at east end of Flying Fish Cove. collected cowries, one Coralliophila in favites, arcids.
08/10 Collected via diving off Flying Fish Cove. Preserved three robber crabs in formalin.
11/10-25/10 Diary of return trip, on 18/10 collected specimens in Singapore. West Coast of Sebarok Island, collected oysters, Pteria penguin, some thaids[?], mussels. At South coast of Senang Island collected clams, Lambis, turbinids, arcids. East Coast of Sudong Island collected coral. At sandbank west of Hantu collected opisthobranch.
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