376 KEPOKT ON SURFACE COLLECTIONS MADE IN 



Report on the Surface Collections made by Mr. W. T. 

 Grenfell in the North Sea and West of Scotland. 



By 



Gilbert C. Bourne, M.A., F.1..S. 



With Plate XXV. 



Mr. Wilfrid Grenfell, the Superintendent of the Mission to Deep 

 Sea Fishermen, has most kindly arranged to carry on a series of 

 observations on the pelagic fauna and the fishes of the seas traversed 

 by the Mission boats in the course of their work. The following 

 report gives an account of the pelagic fauna collected in the North 

 Sea during the early spring, and in the west of Scotland and 

 Kinsale Harbour during the summer. The collections were pre- 

 served in picro-sulphuric acid and spirit, and were forwarded to 

 Plymouth for examination. Owing to pressure of work, and to my 

 leaving Plymouth somewhat unexpectedly, 1 have not been able to 

 make a thorough investigation of all the collections, but have worked 

 out the Copepoda with care, and have confined myself to short notes 

 on the other species. 



Fourteen bottles were sent from the North Sea, the stations 

 being — 



No. 1. — February 28th. East of Winterton shoal. The surface- 

 net was used for twenty minutes just below the surface at 10.15 

 a.m. Temperature of the air 35 0°, of the surface 42°, of the 

 bottom 39° F. A heavy swell. 



No. 2.— February 28th. Three to four miles W. of No. 1. Net 

 sunk some fathoms below the surface. Temperature at surface 

 41-5° F. 



No. 3. — March 1st, 10 a.m. Winterton shoal. Temperature of 

 air 38-5°, of surface 42°. Wind N.N.W. 



No. 4. — March 1st, 12.30 a.m. Within a mile or so of No. 3. 

 About fifty miles E. of Yarmouth. 



