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to science (allied to the extinct genus Ananchytes) ; Salenia ; several 

 remarkable Crustaceans ; and a few fish. 



" We were unfortunately unable to land on Possession Island on 

 account of the weather ; but we dredged in 210 fathoms and 550 

 fathoms, about 18 miles to the S.W. of the island, with a satisfactory 

 result. We reached Kerguelen Island on the 7th of January, and 

 remained there until the 1st of February. During that time Dr. v. 

 Willemoes-Suhm was chiefly occupied in working out the land fauna, 

 Mr. Moseley collected the plants, Mr. Buchanan made observations 

 on the geology of those parts of the island which we visited, and 

 Mr. Murray and I carried on the shallow-water dredging in the 

 steam-pinnace. Many observations were made, and large collections 

 were stored in the different departments. We detected at Kerguelen 

 Island some peculiarities in the reproduction of several groups of 

 marine invertebrates, and particularly in the Echinodermata, which I 

 have briefly described in a separate paper. 



" Two days before leaving Kerguelen Island, we trawled off the 

 entrance of Christmas Harbour ; and the trawl-net came up, on one 

 occasion, nearly tilled with large cup-sponges belonging to the genus 

 Bossella of Carter, and probably the species dredged by Sir James 

 Clark Ross near the ice-barrier, Mossella antarctica. 



" On the 2nd of February we dredged in 150 fathoms, 140 miles 

 south of Kerguelen, and on the 7th of February off Yong Island, in 

 both cases with success. 



" We reached Corinthian Bay, in Yong Island, on the evening of 

 the 6th, and had made all arrangements for examining it, as far as 

 possible, on the following day ; but, to our great disapj)ointment, a 

 sudden change of weather obliged lis to put to sea. Fortunately 

 Mr. Moseley and Mr. Buchanan accompanied Captain Nares on shore 

 for an hour or two on the evening of our arrival, and took the oppor- 

 tunity of collecting the plants and minerals within their reach. A 

 cast of the trawl taken in lat. 60° 52' S., long. 80° 20' E., at 1260 

 fathoms, was not very productive, only a few of the ordinary deep-sea 

 forms having been procured. 



" Our most southerly station was on the 14th of February, lat. 

 65° 42' S., long. 79° 49' E. The trawl brought up, from a depth of 

 1675 fathoms, a considerable number of animals, including Sponges, 

 Alcyonarians, Echinids, Bryozoa, and Crustacea, all much of the 

 Tjsual deep-sea character, although some of the species had not been 

 previously observed. On February 26th, in 1975 fathoms, Umhellu- 

 larice, HolothuricB, and many examj)les of several species of the 

 Ananchyfido} were procured; and we found very much the same group 

 of forms at 1900 fathoms on the 3rd of March. On the 7th of 

 March, in 1800 fathoms, there were many animal forms, particularly 

 some remarkable starfishes, of a large size, of the genus Hymenaster ; 

 and on the 13th of March, at a depth of 2600 fathoms, with a 

 bottom temperature of 0"'2 C. Holotlmrke Avero abundant, there were 

 several starfishes and Actinice, and a very elegant little Brachiopod 

 occurred attached to peculiar concretions of manganese which came 

 lip in numbers in the trawl. 



