Chapter III—SYNOPSIS OF ZOOLOGICAL DATA. 
1. THE DREDGING RECORDS, 
Complete records were kept of every dredge haul of the Survey, comprising such 
data as the bearings, date, depth, etc., at each station, as well as a list of the aggregate 
fauna and flora foundtooccur there. It was our original expectation to publish the entire 
set of station records as an appendix to the present report, for it would certainly be 
desirable to insure the permanency of these records through printing. They are the 
crude data upon which most of our ensuing discussion is based, and it is highly probable 
that they would yield other results of value if subjected to further analysis. Here, 
and here only, do we find what forms of life are associated together upon a given 
area of the sea bottom. Owing to the voluminous character of these records, however, 
it has not been found practicable to publish them in their entirety, although a ‘‘ List 
of Stations”’ is presented at the close of section I. As regards the associations of 
species, we must be content at present with presenting the data in a generalized form, 
except for the reproduction of a very few complete station records by way of illustration. 
In all there are 458 stations, belonging to the regular series, which may be classi- 
fied as follows: 
Bisntawk sViney ard. Sour dikes). Bie beth. 5c) eis aeysc\ suame) gi evedorty aeyehgievalbiayf « alel 218 
SIME vice Ard S Barr) tah SBS cae fs ies ous aia) Sieys Pete lsc VeE el ave eee cin eo atte 66 
Riise elcid Cram Gels Gotha ye aie ou -cs),s: Sac snes: al enedsiere anes PAREN a te el ores, 7 
Phaiarope and Bine Wing, Vineyard Sond. ..... 5... oo. ocesemoe ae tte ee a7 
Phalarope, Buzzards Bay......... a POLIS 2 TED OY El ee go 
Ucn Le Bee een ee eR ie cher pe CURSES Deas ai ics Sastre, sie o «lekeysrei sual BueMsuemane eae Recta ore 458 
With a few exceptions (see below) these stations were all dredged during the sum- 
mers of 1903, 1904, and 1905. The Fish Hawk was employed during all three of these 
seasons, the Phalarope (supplemented by the Blue Wing) during the second and third 
seasons. Owing, however, to an accident which prevented the use of the Phalarope 
along the western shore of Buzzards Bay in 1905, the latter region was not dredged 
until the summer of 1907. These 1907 stations have been charted along with the others 
and the records included in the same series. There are likewise included with the regu- 
lar series certain repeated stations. Owing to the somewhat tentative character of 
the Vineyard Sound dredgings in 1903, 34 of these earlier stations were redredged (ap- 
proximately) in 1904, partly with the Fish Hawk, partly with the Phalarope. Such 
stations have been designated by the original number, with the addition of the Latin 
word “‘bis.”’ The ‘‘bis’’ stations have all been treated as Fish Hawk stations, and a 
list of them is published at the end of the Fish Hawk series. The records for the occur- 
rence of each species at this group of repeated stations have been incorporated serially 
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