22 U.S. NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETIN 239 



January 6. Today officers of the Herald and afterward Mr. Mac- 

 Gillivray, visited our ship. I find the lower marine animals of 

 these seas have been little investigated, with the exception of 

 Huxley's examinations of the Hydroid Polypi, and Mr. Mac- 

 Gillivray advises me to publish many species which I have found 

 in this harbor, as nothing has yet been done in this field. 



January 7. We are now under sailing orders, and remain on board, 

 waiting for a fair wind. 



January 8. At sunrise we got underway and proceeded down the 

 harbor, but the wind failing, we anchored outside of the "Sow 

 and Pigs." At noon, however, a stiff southerly breeze sprung up, 

 and we got underway again at one o'clock and stood out of the 

 harbor and on our course to the eastward at the rate of six knots 

 per hour. 



January 14. S. Lat. 26°41'; E. Long. 159°37'. Coral Sea. 



January 20. S. Lat. 20°07'; E. Long. 160°37'. Coral Sea. Passed 

 a shoal, dredged and found twelve species of bivalves and one 

 hundred and five of univalves. 



January 30. S. Lat. 13°40'; E. Long. 162°24'. 



February 3. Western Pacific. Sighted the Island of Oury and Vani- 

 koro [Santa Cruz Islands] where La Perouse was shipwrecked. 



February 24. N. Lat. 6°47'; E. Long. 158°30'. Close to the South- 

 side of Bornabi [sic]. Not permitted to land. 



March 1. Same thing at Guam. Then left for Hong Kong. 



March 14. Formosa was sighted. 



March 18. Spent the day in Macao. 



March 25. Hong Kong. 



March 28. Sick with Influenza. Susquehanna brings news that 

 Commodore Perry was on the point of making a treaty with 

 the Japanese opening their ports to our commerce. 



April 4. Today I tried the trawl for the first time on a muddy bottom 

 in the bay west of the Kowloon Peninsula [opposite Hong Kong, 

 China]; its success was very satisfactory. Porpoise arrived hav- 

 ing gone from the Cape of Good Hope around Van Diemen's 

 Land [Tasmania] via New Ireland, [Bismarck Archipelago] and 

 the Buskee Passage. 



April 12. Dredged in the channel of Hong Kong Harbor, on a shelly 

 bottom in from six to ten fathoms. 



May 24. Arrival of Propeller Hancock. Captain Rodgers had been 

 four months surveying in the passages between Borneo and 

 Sumatra, and had done a great deal of work as might have been 

 expected from the well-known energy and efficient character of 

 Captain Rodgers. They had collected many shells. [Kennedy 

 the store ship had also arrived in Hong Kong at this time.] 



