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decision first on account of the richness of the locality in 
Actinozoa, as proved by the work of Herr Storm, and secondly 
and more particularly because Prof. G. O. Sars had found so 
many new and rare Amphipoda in its waters. 
Trondhjem, or Drontheim, as it is commonly spelt in 
England, is in about lat. 63° 25’, or some 1° 50! south of the 
ArcticCircle. The fiord isvery tortuous, first, nearits entrance, 
running nearly south, then west, and ultimately making its 
way N. by E. for a great distance in a direction nearly 
parallel with that of the coast. Taking into account the 
varied windings it probably is as long, or nearly so, as the two 
great Sogne and Hardanger Fiords, and the square miles of 
water which it embraces must, I think, be fully equal to that 
of either of the two fiords named. 
I took with me as assistant Mr. Andrew Scott, son of 
Mr. Thomas Scott, of the Scotch Fishery Board. The 
working apparatus consisted of three dredges of different sizes, 
a small trawl, towing-net, hand-nets, 600 fathoms of rope 
and 200 fathoms of whale-line, a hand-winch (without which 
dredging in 200~300 fathoms is, of course, out of the 
question), sieves, &c., and cases of jars and bottles of various 
sizes. As my chief object was to obtain small species, the 
nets of the dredges were made either of cheese-cloth or old 
coffee-bags. These rapidly filled and brought up all the 
finest mud. A consequence of this was that while these nets 
admirably served my special purpose, they did not sweep over 
the ground in the way that nets with a large mesh which let 
the mud pass through would have done; and thus, while I 
was amply rewarded by the small forms obtained, I did not 
procure the same, or anything like the same, number of large 
Echinoderms &c. which might have been secured in the same 
time had another mode of collecting been employed. 
A rather small boat with lugger sail was hired at Trondhjem, 
a considerably larger one, but similarly rigged, at Rédberg. 
Three or four men and ourselves were the boats’ complement 
of hands. 
I spent the first fortnight at Trondhjem and a fortnight 
and a few days at Rédberg. 
Trondhjem was not found to be very rich. The best 
shallow-water ground seemed to be that between the land and 
the islet of Munkholmen. The English Channel Fleet, 
however, was lying at anchor in this part during most 
of the time I was there, and this somewhat interfered with 
working this ground. To the east of this the river Nid 
flows into the fiord with a very strong current and large 
volume of water, and while the former is not helpful to 
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