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showing that they do not catch anything when sent down open. 

 Successful trawlings at Stations i and 3 resulted in both cases 

 in catches of over 300 fishes belonging to the ordinary coast- 



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Fig. 39.— Three Deep-Sea Fishes from Staiion 4, 923 metres (ahout 500 fathoms). 

 a, Macrm-us cequalis, Gthr. Nat. size, 23 cm. 

 h, ChimcBra mirabilis, Collett. Nat. size, 71 cm. 

 c. Mora mora, Risso. Nat. size, 45 cm. 



bank species. Even these first hauls, however, made it evident 

 that the big winch did not run smoothly when paying out line. 



On the morning of Monday, nth April, a sounding at Station 

 4 gave us 923 metres. The big trawl was shot with 2360 metres 

 of wire. At x p.m. we assumed that it was on the bottom, and 



