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reach of such sinister arms, to be enfolded by the 

 living umbrella, and then drawn slowly, irrevocably 

 toward the wide-open, gleaming beak, watched al- 

 ways by those cruel, lidless eyes, so frightfully like 

 those of human beings, seemed, to my imagination, 

 a much more awful fate, than could ever befall, in 

 our darkest night, any creature breathing air. 



So much for the hastiest glance at a plankton 

 haul at Station Seventy-four. The following day, 

 at the same Station, we made a memorable haul on 

 the bottom, six hundred odd fathoms down, and 

 took a whole tubful of bottom fish, brotulids and 

 macrurids, together with a gorgeous lot of inverte- 

 brates. 



Of the marvellous hauls of Crustacea, or crabs, 

 shrimps and prawns, which we made at this Station, 

 it is most difficult to write, for the majority are 

 new or exceedingly rare forms, and almost none 

 have any common names. Lee Boone who, in a 

 masterful manner, is studying them from the tech- 

 nical point of view, has, at my request, written a 

 few paragraphs of the general impressions of this 

 unusual collection which I am glad to reproduce 

 here. 



One of the most interesting of such hauls is 

 illustrated in Figure 55, which shows some of the 

 loot from Station Seventy-four, Otter Trawl No. 

 3, Depth 624 fathoms. In this were "opalescent 

 Gigantocypris, as astounding a surprise as if one 

 met an ant a yard long; scores of scarlet armored 

 Hctcrocarpus with swordlike rostrum half as long 

 as the body, and slender, sensitive, wavering an- 



