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fabricii^^r^ taken on our Atlantic cruise between Newfoundland 

 and Ireland (at Stations 70, 80, 81, and 94, covering a wide 

 expanse of ocean) ; such larvae have never been taken by us in 

 the Norwegian Sea. As a working hypothesis we may suppose 

 that in spring and summer Gonatus migrates into the Norwegian 

 Sea from the Atlantic, just as the " bottle-nose " is universally 

 believed to do. 



The same remark probably applies to the interesting giant 

 squid, ArchiteutJiis dux, a specimen of which (see Fig. 484) was ArchUeuthis. 

 found floating at the surface to the north of the Faroe Islands 

 during a cruise with 

 the " Michael Sars " 

 in 1902. This speci- 

 men was not large, 

 but in 1903 in Ice- 

 land I had the oppor- 

 tunity of making an 

 interesting observa- 

 tion, showing the 

 gigantic dimensions 

 of these squids. On 

 the 15th of August 

 the " Michael Sars " 

 arrived in Mofjord 

 on the east coast of 

 Iceland, and visited 

 the local whaling sta- 

 tion. On the shore 

 were two freshly 

 caught whales, one a 

 north-caper,the other 



a cachalot. Inspecting the cachalot I saw around its enormous 

 jaws several long parallel stripes (see Fig. 485), consisting, as 

 closer scrutiny revealed, of great numbers of circular scars or 

 wounds about 27 mm. in diameter; Fig. 486 shows a piece of 

 the skin with these scars. It occurred to me that these scars 

 must have been left by the suckers of a giant squid, and 

 following up this idea I found in the whale's mouth a piece 

 of a squid - tentacle 17 cm. in maximum diameter. In the 

 stomach of the whale many squid-beaks of various sizes were 

 found, the largest measuring 9 cm. in length, besides some 

 fish bones, and the men who had shot the whale told me that 

 in its death-flurry it disgorged the arm of a squid 6 metres 



Fig. 484.- 



-Architeuthis, found dead north of the 

 Faroe Islands. 



