THE ANNALS 



AND 



MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



[SIXTH SERIES.] 

 No. 24. DECEMBER 1889. 



LVI. — Report of a Deep-sea Trawling Cruise off the 8. W. 

 Coast of Ireland, under the Direction of Hev. VY. SpOTS- 

 wooD Geeen, M.A., F.R.G.S. 



[Plates XVIII. & XIX.] 



Summary of the Cruise. By Rev. W. S. Green. 



Having for many years been deeply interested in the 

 marine fauna of our southern and western coasts, it was with 

 much pleasure that, at the suggestion of Dr. Giinther, I this 

 summer undertook a brief trawling cruise for the purpose of 

 procuring specimens for the British ]\Iuseum. 



Experience gained in three previous cruises to the deep 

 water under the auspices of the Royal Irish Academy, in two 

 of which I was associated with Prof. A. C. Haddon, whose 

 company now and last year I missed sadly, and many years 

 of trawling on the coast, enabled me to calculate fairly on 

 what we were likely to get ; so I at once entered into negoti- 

 ations with the Clyde Shipping Company, and chartered 

 their steamer the ' Flying Fox ' for a week's trip, her 

 skipper. Captain Tobin, and his crew being the same I had 

 worked with on former occasions. 



Arriving at Queenstown on Friday the 28th of June, I set 

 to work next day fitting the deep-sea gear into the * Flying 

 Fox.' For this purpose we brought her alongside the 

 Royal Victoria Docks Passage West, where a crane was 



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