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thein and their food to the ship. These squid appear to go iu schools, 

 as they appeared and disappeared together in numbers varying from 

 ten to fifty. One hundred and twenty-five of various sizes were pre- 

 served in alcohol. Twenty-five taken on the night of the 23d were 

 placed alive iu a large tub, and the water was kept fresh during the 

 night by a continuous flow from the deck pump. In the morning nearly 

 all were found to be dead, and all were badly mutilated by the beaks 

 of their fellows. One evening a flying-fish was captured with a scoop- 

 net and was killed in alcohol with its fins extended. 



At about 10.45 one night iMr. Nye saw a i)hosphorescent mass near 

 the ship and tried to bring it on board with a scoop-net. In this he 

 did not succeed, but in his effort captured a shrimp of the deep red color 

 so characteristic of many of the deei) sea crustaceans. This is the only 

 specimen of this color we have ever taken from the surface. The ques- 

 tion naturally comes up, Could not this one have been dredged and been 

 in the scoop-net or on the deck where the net was emptied I I am sure that 

 it could not; for although shrimp of this color have been taken from 

 every haul made in deep water, I have never seen one alivf , while the one 

 taken from the surface lived half an honr in a tlish. This shrimp was 

 not in the least phosphorescent. Acanclla Normani came up plentifully 

 in some hauls. It has been a common thing to find single egg-cases 

 about the size of a nutmeg attached to this coral. Until this cruise no 

 embryos have been found far enough advanced to determine to what 

 they belonged. We found one, however, with a well-advanced embryo of 

 an octopod. This, with the egg-shell and case still attached to the coral, 

 is preserved, and it may be possible to determine the genus and i)erhaps 

 the species. The Anthozoa from the varions hanls were valuable. One 

 Pennatula is at least new to our coast and perhaps to science. Echin- 

 oderms were numerous, and I believe several new forms will be found 

 among them. The list of mollusks will be large. The principal things 

 in the various hauls were as follows : Station 2201, in 538 fathoms, August 

 19 : Archasters ; crabs ( Gcryon quinqvcdens) ; shriuqi, several species. 

 Just after this haul several large dead octopods were seen on the sur- 

 fjice as on a previous occasion. A boat was lowered and a portion of 

 one picked up. It proved to be AUoposns mollis (Verrill). Station 2202, 

 in 515 fathoms: Geryon qtiinqueclens, numerous; Eledone verrugosa; 

 shrimp, worms, and worm-tubes ; foraminifera; 12 species offish. Sta- 

 tion 2203, in 515 fathoms : trawl came up with a heavy load of mud ; one 

 large Lifhodes Agassizil 9 ; Geryon quinqnedens ; large soft sea-urchins 

 {Phormosoma)', starfish; cup corals; Macrurus Bairdii; and 8 other 

 species offish. Station 2204, in 728 fathoms: Gcryon quinqucdcns ; 

 Flahcllum ; starfish; sea-urchins; 9 species of fish. Station 2205, in 

 1,073 fathoms, Angnst 20: Bentltodytcs giyantea, 60 large specimens; 

 AeaneUa Normani; AnthopUllum ; 3 species of Cephalopods; and 8 

 species of fish. Station 2200, in 1,043 fathoms: Geryon quinqnedens; 

 EeMnus norvegicus ; soft sen-urchins [Fhormosoma)'^ ?ind 8 species of 



