FIJI-NEW ZEALAND EXPEDITION 199 
and clear. Going on deck I found that the captain had saved a 
part of the ‘‘tree’’ that had come up in the night haul. He had 
eut off about fifteen feet of it, letting the rest drop into the water. 
Imagine my amazement when I found that it was not a ‘‘tree’’ 
at all, but a part of a gigantic antipatharian coral! I noticed a 
few of what I supposed to be small colonies growing on the 
branches and found that they were really the ultimate branchlets 
of the whole immense colony. Tracing them down carefully I 
found them organically continuous with the whole of the fifteen 
feet of the tree-like object; and the very butt where it had been 
eut off showed the same thing. Judging from the weight of the 
part that fell back into the sea, the captain believed that the 
whole thing was several times as large as the part saved, and a 
reasonable estimate was that the entire colony had been twenty- 
five or thirty feet. in height. This seemed ineredible as I had 
never before seen an antipatharian over three feet in height. 
I found that the men had saved a number of things for me 
during the night. There were many of the big brachiopods such 
as were secured the day before, growing on the Pecten shells, and 
often clusters of fifteen or twenty small ones were found inside 
a single shell. There were also some hydroids, simple corals, 
ascidians, anemones, sea cucumbers (too large for me to save), 
mollusks, serpent stars, crabs, ete. I succeeded in getting some 
good photographs of the crew, hoisting engine, trawl and the catch 
of fish as they were dumped on the deck. Another haul during the 
day yielded similar results, but with a few new things, although 
the fishing was still rather poor. 
We saw the light-house that the Rona had rammed with such 
disastrous results. I found that it was useless for me to try to 
over-haul the eatches during the night, as I was only in the way 
and could do little during the darkness. The crew, however, with- 
out exception were keenly on the alert for things that might be 
of interest, and picked over the mass of debris from the bottom 
of the trawl very carefully, thus saving a lot of things that would 
otherwise have been thrown away. 
Among other things, they saved a number of gastropod shells 
of the remarkable genus Xenophora that have the strange habit 
of adorning themselves by affixing other shells to their whorls. 
They will be described later. The men had also saved two species 
of star-fish and some other things. 
The next morning a fine crinoid came up, the only one seen 
