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Among the deeper stations, one in particular should be mentioned, 
viz; St. 55, (mouth of Bredefjord; 60°34’ N., 46°45’ W. 319—380 m. clay 
bottom with some small stones and large red corals). As shown in the 
station list p. 329, this station includes 22 species belonging to the groups 
dealt with in the present work. Of these, a single one, (No. 150) Pteraster 
hastatus was new to science, and the following 6 new for Greenland, 
viz; (No. 97) Eurycope robusta, (No. 127) Scalpellum Stroemii, (No. 142) 
Hathrometra Sarsii, (No. 152) Poraniomorpha hispida, (No. 177) Psolus 
valvatus, and (No. 181) Primnoa resedaeformis. This station alone has 
thus augmented the fauna of Greenland with 7 species. Other species 
also, moreover, are interesting: (No. 91) Calathura brachiata, (No. 94) 
Ianira maculosa, (No. 122) Saccopsis Terebellidis, (No. 164) Ophioscolex 
glacialis had not previously been found south of the ridge across Davis 
Strait (abt. 66° N.) while (No. 160) Amphiura denticulata had hitherto 
only been found at 64—64%° N. and very much the same applies to 
(No. 162) Ophiacantha anomala. Again, (No. 163) Ophiolebes claviger, 
was formerly only known from W. Greenland, locality not stated. Of 
the 22 species, therefore, all save 8 represent finds of some particular 
interest. 
At depths beyond 100 m. the bottom was as a rule stony, in some 
few cases also with shell gravel, and at some places with much clay, vız: 
Bredefjord St. 34 (?), 460— > 550 m.; St. 44, 165—190 m.; St. 45, 
430—450 m. ; St. 49, 490 m.; St. 55, 310—330 m.; St. 67, 220—310 m.; 
St. 69, 290—355 m.; St. 75, 200—270 m.; St. 76, 260—320 m.; St. 80, 
365 m.; St. 81, 110 m.; St. 82, 80—90 m.; St. 87, 230 m.; St. 90, 100— 
110 m.; St. 91, 110—180 m. ; St. 95, 115—155 m.; St. 96, 410 m.; St. 97, 
250—280 m.; St. 98, 520—560 m.; and Sermilik St. 115, 500 m.; St. 116, 
80—95 m.; with Bredefjord St. 121, 700 m.; St. 124, 700 m.; St. 130, 
< 900 m.; and St. 135, 225—240 m. 
Such of these stations where the depth amounted to only abt. 100 m. 
or even less (St. 81, 82, 116, and probably also St. 90) are doubtless 
affected in this respect by their proximity to the inland ice, the bottom 
being evidently formed by glacier clay; in the branch fjord where the 
island of Nuk is situated, (abt. 46°35’ W.) the water, even at a distance 
of a couple of nautical miles from the ice, was so clayey that one could 
not see so much as a single millimetre down. It is evident that this 
glacier clay has everywhere stifled practically all animal life; at St. 81—82, 
the dredge contained hardly anything but a quantity of tube worms 
with long, thin tubes. Dr. У. Norpmanw has, by the way, noticed ex- 
actly similar conditions in Northern Stromfjord, where the glacier clay 
marks a limit of animal life; only few species can exist in the bottom- 
less clay or in water which must be altogether impregnated therewith. 
The following list shows the stations arranged in order of depth: 
Kvanefjord. St. 2, 17—19 m.; St. 10, 19.5—54 (?) m.; St. 9, 22— 
24 m.; St.4, 20.5—34m.; St.13, 34-40 m.; St. 6, 37—45 m.; St. 1, 
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