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missing the numerous species which have a world-wide distribution under similar 

 conditions of depth and temperature, it possesses many forms unknown or com- 

 paratively rare elsewhere. It has little apparent connection with the Falkland fauna; 

 apart from widely distributed species common to both areas, very few of the Falkland 

 species proper are found in South Georgia, and those few very rarely. How far the 

 examination of the material received from the Antarctic Islands will modify this view of 

 the isolation of the South Georgia area, I cannot yet say, but from the present state of 

 the work it would seem that the two regions are not closely connected, although many 

 South Georgian species occur in the Antarctic area, as might be expected from the 

 similarity of physical conditions. 



A list of the stations worked over is as follows : 



STATIONS MADE BY THE R.R.S. 'DISCOVERY' 



13. TS 589.1 (See Fig. z.f 



3. iii. 26. 5-7 miles N 490" E of Jason Light. Sounding rod, 143 m. 



About 15 CO. of tenacious dark slate-coloured mud. Residue of pebbles and dark sand grains of 

 all sizes. Diatoms, spicules and very few Foraminifera, all of common species. 



14. TS 544. D II.3 



3. iii. 26. 15-4 miles N 44° 30' E of Jason Light. Sounding rod, 260 m. 



About 15 cc. of dark greenish brown mud yielding a residue of dark sub-angular sand grains, a 

 few sponge spicules, Radiolaria and scanty Foraminifera; Miliammina oblonga, M. obliqiia and 

 Amniobaciilites americanus being the only species occurring in any numbers. 



15. TS 547. D L 



3. iii. 26. 25 miles N 45° 30' E of Jason Light. Sounding rod, 191 m. 



A very small sample of grey mud, mainly diatomaceous. Sixteen species of Foraminifera were 

 recorded, all of which, except Buliminu fusiformis, were represented by one or at most two specimens. 



16. TS 549. E I. 



3. iii. 26. 36-5 miles N 46" E of Jason Light. Sounding rod, 727 m. 



A few cc. of slate-coloured mud yielding a residue of angular sand grains. Diatoms, Radiolaria 

 and a few Foraminifera, including a specimen of Lagena spumosa. 



17. TS550. EI. 



4. iii. 26. 46 miles N 46° E of Jason Light. Sounding rod, 1900-1950 m. 

 A few pebbles and some fine sand with very few Foraminifera. 



20. TS 539-540. DI. 



4. iii. 26. 26-5 miles N 54° E of Jason Light. Sounding rod, 210 m. 



Two samples : 



(i) About 12 cc. tenacious slate-brown mud. 



(2) About ID cc. slate-green mud. 



The residues were similar, angular sand grains with Diatoms and few Foraminifera, Miliammina 

 and Virgulina being dominant. 



1 These numbers refer to the station sUdes in the Heron-Allen and Earland collection in the Natural 

 History Museum. 



- This reference is to Fig. 2, p. 35, Chart of Cumberland Bay, South Georgia. 



^ These numbers afford reference to the positions of the stations as shown in Fig. i, p. 33. 



