[93J LISTS OF DREDGING STATIONS. 965 



During the season of 1878-'79, tlie dressings, from December to 

 March, were in charge of Frof. Alexander Agassiz, upon the Blake. 

 commanded by Commander J. R. Bartlett, TJ. S. Navy. The cruise 

 extended from Key West to Havana, from Havana to Jamaica through 

 the Old Bahama Channel and Windward Passage, from Jamaica to 

 St. Thomas, along the south coast of Hayti and Porto Rico. From 

 St. Thomas the Blalce visited Santa Cruz, Saba Bank, Montserrat, 

 St. Kitts, Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, 

 the Grenadines, Grenada, extended the dredgings as far as the 100- 

 fathom line off Trinidad, returned to St. Vincent, and finished the 

 dredging operations at Barbados. These positions were also published 

 in the Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, September, 

 1879, and are distinguished in the same manner as the preceding ones. 

 The serial numbers, temperatures, and localities are taken from the 

 Bulletin, while the depths, latitudes, and longitudes, nature of bottom, 

 original numbers of casts, and letters designating lines are mainly taken 

 from "Hydrographic Notice No. 9 of 1882," published by the U. S. Hy- 

 drographic Office, with the exception of about a dozen hauls, to which 

 no latitudes or longitudes are affixed. 



