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At stations 68 and 69 the hauls were so scanty as to be negligible, though C. fin- 

 marchicus from stage III onwards was present at both. At station 74 the subsurface 

 haul was sparse and contained hardly any copepods; twenty-five were picked out, and 

 these included C. finmarchicus III (5), IV (3), and ? (1). Here we have an example 

 of a tongue of northern calaniferous water of salinity 33 per thousand bearing south- 

 wards over Atlantic water of salinity 35. 



In the following table E the vertical hauls were made from 180-0 fathoms except 

 at station 76, where the haul was from 150-0 fathoms. 



Table E. — Copepod content in the vertical net over the Atlantic slope south of Cabot 



Strait, July 26-27. 



Acadia station 80, July 27, depth 168 metres, at the eastern end of St. Pierre 

 bank, is of interest as lying close to station 24 of June 2 (see table X). On the earlier 

 date there was a great paucity of copepods but stages II to V of C. finmarchicus were 

 observed. At the end of July the same early stages were present and, in addition, the 

 blue copepod, Anomalocera patersoni, had put in its summer appearance at the surface. 



