328 CLASSIFIED RESUME OF ORGANISMS OBSERVED 

 Class MAMMALIA 



At 200 feet a porpoise swam past, going obliquely down- 

 ward, with possibly another in the distance. 



At 2450 a very large creature, at least twenty feet in 

 length, came quite near to the bathysphere. I could just 

 see its outline. Perhaps it was a porpoise or a small whale, 

 but it may equally well have been a fish. 



UNKNOWN ORGANISMS 



I have one hundred and fifty-four separate and distinct 

 notes on Unknown Fish, and two hundred and thirty-five 

 notes on Unknown Animals. To list these would most ex- 

 cellently reveal my abyssal ignorance of the majority of 

 sparks, lights, half outlines, and glimpses of heads, tails, or 

 eyes. But the fractional character of exact identifications 

 has been thoroughly presented, and the few following notes 

 will serve as samples of all the rest, notes which will be of 

 value only when I or some other diver descends and re- 

 solves them into something understandable. 



400 feet. Four. Myctophid-shaped, but not Myctophids. 

 550 feet. Black forms in distance; four coming nearer. 

 600 feet. Large, indistinct bodies moving in distance; seemed 



uniformly pale: squid or fish? 

 920 feet. One, four-inch. Six bluish-white lights along side. 

 1060 feet. One, five-inch. Deep fish, like chub. No lights and 



sharp jaw. 

 1 1 00 feet. Hundreds of pale blue, double lights. 

 13 10 feet. A luminous head seen for an instant. 



