[63] WORK OF STEAMER ALBATROSS. 667 



We ran to the southward and eastward about 100 miles and took 

 twelve hauls with the large beam trawl at stations 2080 to 2091 (220 to 

 1,100 fathoms). The bottom there is extremely rich in animal life, and 

 we made very extensive and valuable collections of fish and inverte- 

 brates. 



August 1 Mr. Benedict left the Albatross. Since that time I have 

 had charge of the scientific department, and Mr. Sanderson Smith has 

 been with the ship, detailed from the shore laboratory. 



August 2 we left Wood's Holl for a cruise to the eastward. On the 

 3d we sighted a large school of porpoises traveling to the southward. 

 On the oth a barn swallow flew on board ship. On the 0th sighted six 

 finback and one humpback whale, and on the 7th a large school of kill- 

 ers traveling northwest. On the 11th we took several hauls with the 

 beam trawl, beginning at station 2092 (78 fathoms), just to the south- 

 ward of the Flemish Cap, running up on to the Cap at station 2094 (50 

 fathoms). Here we found a bottom quite like that of the Grand Bank, 

 while stations 2095 and 2090 (105 and 98 fathoms), just to the west of 

 the Cap, showed a hard, barren bottom. 



At station 2G97 (199 fathoms), we landed a bowlder of about 2,000 

 pounds on deck, with a number of sponges, mollusks, crustaceans, and 

 fish. 



After this haul we ran to St. John's for coal, and while there I made 

 a Collection of young salmon, iSalmo salar, and brook trout, Salmofonti- 

 nalis, at Harbor Grace Junction, together with a few birds. 



August 24 we left St. John's, and while ruuning to the south passed 

 a number of finback whales moving to the northward. 



Eight hauls with beam trawl, beginning at station 2098, near the 

 edge of the bank, and running to the westward to station 2705, brought 

 up many interesting specimens. From the deeper. hauls between the 

 two banks we took a great number of sea-pens, Penhatula aculeata, and 

 a few specimens of Pennatula borealis; also a number of species of fish, 

 among them Macrurus bairdii and Sebastes marinus in great numbers. 



August 23, at hydrographic station 1070 (32 fathoms), we took, on 

 hand-lines, one hundred and thirty-six cod, Gadus callarias, in about half 

 an hour's fishing. We used squid for bait, and the cod took it vora- 

 ciously. An examination of the cods' stomachs revealed a great number 

 of Bank clams, Gystodaria siliqua, with a few fish, crabs, squid, and other 

 small mollusks. 



One dolphin, Belphinus delphis, was here captured from a school. On 

 the 25th there was a winter yellow-leg about the ship, and a swallow 

 flew on board during the high wind next day. On the 20th, too, we 

 saw a number of porpoises, Belphinus delphis, moving to windward. 



Five hauls with the beam trawl, to the southward and eastward of 

 George's Bank, at stations 2700 to 2710, 800 to 1,188 fathoms, brought 

 up many interesting specimens. 



We reached Wood's Holl August 27. 



