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fish. Station 2207, iu 1,051 falboms; large load of imid, with worms 

 and brittle stars. After this haul 48 flying squid were taken aiound 

 tlie electric li^it, with a squid-jig. Station 2208, in 1,178 fathoms, 

 August 21: Acanella Normani and Echinus norvcgims, with a few worms, 

 shells, and fish. Station 2209, in 1,080 fathoms: Echinus norvcgicus, 

 Phoriuosoma, shrimp, shells, and eight species of fish. Station 2210, in 

 991 fathoms: a good haul of Anthozoa, among them one form new to 

 the Albatross collections; sea-urchins, starfish, shells, worms, and ten 

 species of fish. Station 2211, in 1,064 fathoms: much material, small 

 shrimp, starfish, and four species of fish. Station 2212, iu 428 fathoms, 

 August 22: a heavy load of mud, with worms, shells, and some starfish; 

 also, five species of fish. Station 2213, in 384 fathoms: contents of net, 

 same as previous haul. Station 2214, iu 475 fathoms: one sea-urchin, 

 worms, shells, and four species of fish. Station 2215, in 578 fathoms: 

 worms, brittle stars, and four species of fish. Station 221G, in 956 

 fathoms: large flat sea-urchins, cup coral, and eight species of fish. 

 Station 2217, in 924 fathoms, August 23: Ophiomvsium Lymnni, star- 

 fish, worms, shells, soft sea-urchins, and one tish. Station 2218, in 948 

 fathoms, with Blake dredge: mud, worms, and shells. Station 2219, in 

 948 fathoms: very few^ invertebrates, and two species of fish. Station 

 2220, in 1,054 fathoms: sea-urchins, shells, and two species of fish. 

 We arrived in Wood's IIoll on August 24. 



On the 5th of September the Albatross again put to sea for a cruise 

 in the deep waters between Wood's Holl and the Bermuda Islands and 

 in the region of the Gulf Stream, returning on the 14th of the month. 

 Eighteen hauls were made with the beam-trawl in an average depth of 

 1,360 fathoms; the maximum depth being 2,574 and the minimum 243 

 fathoms. Surface collecting was carried on in the usual manner with 

 nets, and at night with the aid of the electric light. The flying squid 

 [Sthcnoteuthis Bartramii) was not abundant, only two specimens being- 

 taken on the cruise 



On the 6th two hauls were made, Stations 2221 and 2222 in 1,525 and 



1,537 fatho7us, respectively. The former brought \\\) a heavy load of 



1 mud and ooze. From this we washed out a large amount of foramin- 



ifcra. An ophiuran of small size was very abundant, as were shells of 



I several species. For the first time we found a species of brachiopod 



numerous. Gersemia longiflora^ Verrill, was abundant. Several very 



j large specimens of Benfhodijfe.s (jiganica^ Verrill, were pteserved. In 



I lesser numbers were shrimp, ascidians, and starfish. At the second 



haul we did not obtain so much ooze and mud, but the same species of 



I ophiurans, so abundant in the first haul, were more abundant in this. 



' Shells were not numerous. Gersemia longiJJora and Benihodyies were 



I again preserved. Several bricks, with mortar attached, were dredged 



j at this station, also a very large number of small fragments of the same 



material. The mortar a[)pears to have been exposed to tire. Four 



species of fish were taken also at this station. At Station 2223, on the 



