250 CARL SKOl rSI'.KRG 



Temperature and salinity of the sea round t lie Soutli 



Shetland Islands, t lie north ])art of (irahani Land, and 



the Weddell sea east of it according to observations 



made during the summer of 1902. 



Jan. 12 + 0,17 34'.4i Jan. 29 



;i 

 14 + 0,90 34,49 Feb. I 



icS + 0,34 34,04 3 



19 — 0,51 32,41 4 



21 + 0,20 54,07 5 



6 



7 

 24 — 0,47 33,89 8 



Some o b s e r v a t i o n s on t e m p e r a t u r e a n d s a 1 i n i t }- i n d i f f e- 

 r e n t d e p t h s, made in the same region 1902. 



Certainly these ob.servations are not numerous enough to justif}' an}' 

 general conclusion, but we have no reason to doubl, that the tempeia- 

 ture sinks and the salinity rises with increasing de])th. 



