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the dredge or the surface-net in Inglefield Gulf. It is much to regret 

 that I got no opportunity of dredging at other places except in the 

 harbour of Godhavn and at Cape Faraday, the chief reason being 

 that weather or ice did not permit it. Besides at the two above sta- 

 tions I had Opportunities to dredge only in fioe places in Inglefield 

 Gulf and Murchison Sound. In the subjoined map I have marked 

 these stations together with the depths of the sea and the nature of 

 the bottom. As will appear from that, I dredged in no water deeper 

 than 50 60 fathoms. Therefore one cannot expect to find true deepsea- 

 forms among my collections; yet I feel rather satisfied with the results 

 compared to the very few chances of dredging. On the whole Ingle j 

 field Gulf must be considered very rich in animal life which is, as 

 I believe, to be accounted for chiefly by the great variety of the 

 bottom within short distances. Especially favourable for highly in- 

 teresting and numerous forms I found the bottom below the glaciers. 

 In Murchison Sound I tried once to dredge with the little hand-dredge 

 on muddy bottom in 25 fathoms water just where a river from a 

 recedent glacier was flowing out into the sea, the water being here 

 to a considerable distance from the shore very brackish. Still I believe 

 this dredging was the most successful one on the expedition as regards 

 both the number of the species and the individuals. In great quan- 

 tities I obtained here 4 5 species of amphipods, My sis, Arc f tints, 

 3 4 of palaemonid* and some other crustaceans, 3 4 of ophitirids, 

 Antedon, probably, Antedon EschrichUi, seastars, some gastropods and 

 bivalvtis as Leda and Yoldia, chaetopods and other animals not yet 

 worked up. Also, rocky bottom mixed, with mud or sand was very 

 good. Among the crustaceans which here as everywhere in the Arctic 

 Sea are playing a very important part in the animal life, 34 species 

 of crangonids and some palaemonids were very numerous; besides 

 these, amphipods came up in great number of species and individuals. 

 Fishes were also caught in the dredge mainly slow bottom-fishes as 

 cottids and bhnniids. In no less number were dredged on this bottom 

 ascidians and polyzoti, some characteristic gastropods and bivalves, 

 Strongylocentrotus droebachensis, ophhtrids and Antedon. More rarely 

 occurred Waldheitnia, a little cejthalopod probably Bosnia, 2 species of 

 pycnogonids, a caprcllid, a few seast-ar*,' a big lucernarid, some hydfoids, 

 Cyclopterus, a nemertin, Pise i cola, and Myzostoma on Antedon. 



The only place on the coast of Ellesuiere Land where I got a 

 chance to dredge was Cape Faraday. In 5 7 fathoms whater and 

 from a sandy bottom covered with a rich vegetation of Laminaria 

 and Fucus I obtained a few animals not before met with on the Green- 

 land coast of Smith Sound e. g. an idotlu-id probably Gtyptonotus 

 Sabinii, 2 3 species of gammarids, and Lip<u-i*. 



On my northward trip I also took the opportunity to dredge in 



