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with the tow-netj both in daytime and at night. On the 19th -vve 

 made for Queenstown, and arrived in port in the evening, after a 

 very enjoyable cruise, during which we were favoured with remark- 

 ably fine weather. 



A little more than a week previously the Rev. W. Spotswood Green 

 had undertaken a similar cruise in the '^ Flying Fox," belonging to 

 the Clyde Shipping Company, and had trawled in considerable depths 

 in nearly the same locality as that in which we began our operations, 

 but he kept further north than we did throughout his trip. Being 

 before me both in his cruise and in the date of publishing his results, 

 Mr. Green has rather taken the edge of novelty off ray work ; but 

 although I must yield the pride of priority to some of his species, 

 which were new, and were taken immediately after by myself, the 

 interest of the trawling in the " Research " is not in reality dimin- 

 ished by this circumstance. In fact, my cruise may be considered 

 as complementary to that of the " Flying Fox," and continued the 

 line of trawling much further south, giving a fuller and more com- 

 prehensive view of the bottom fauna of this part of the sea. 



Some of the most interesting results of my cruise were the capture 

 of a second specimen of Solea Greenii, Giinther, a new species, of 

 which a single specimen only was taken in the " Flying Fox ;" the 

 capture of Macrurus Isevis and Rhombus hoscii, both new to British 

 fauna before Mr. Greenes expedition, and of Haloporphyrus eques, 

 which was not taken by him. I also took several specimens of the 

 rare Asterid, Nymphaster suhspinosus, a single specimen of Eupagurus 

 carneus, Pocock, which was first taken by Mr. Green, three fine 

 specimens of B'pizoanthus paguripMlus, Verrill, and a new species of 

 the genus Leptothyra. 



The general results of the trawling at the different stations are 

 given below, and the list of the species collected is given in a 

 separate table. I undertook to work out the whole collection my- 

 self, which has delayed the publication of my report ; but eventually 

 I have had to go to several friends for assistance in some of the 

 groups, and I have received much assistance from Canon A. M. 

 Norman. Professor Jeffrey Bell has kindly given me a separate 

 report on the Echinoderms. 



Station 1. July lOth, 1889. Position, 50° 50' 15" N., 11° 12' 

 30" W. — The trawl was shot at 4 p.m. in 200 fathoms, and was 

 down an hour and a half. The bottom consisted of fine sand, 

 containing many Foramiuifera. A large haul of fish, including 

 many " megrims " {Rhombus hoscii), two species of Macrurus {M. 

 Isevis and M. ca-lorhynchus) ; Haloporphyrus eques, a Phycis, many 

 Scorpama clactyloptera, and a single large specimen of Raia hatis ; 

 quantities of Spatangus purpureus and Holothurians {II. tremula), a 



