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INDEX 



Migrations of whales, 146 

 Motor launch, 149, 226 



Nansen-Pettersson water bottle, 212 

 Natural History Museum, 150 

 Nets, plankton, 181 

 rectangular, 206 

 Netting for plankton nets, 185, 186 

 Nippers for wire ropes, 207 



Objects of investigations, 143 

 Otter trawls, 204 

 Outboard platforms, 164 

 Oxygen, analysis for, 214 



Pedestal fair-leads, 161, 178 

 Petersen young-iish trawl, 181, 188 

 Petrunkewitsch's fluid, 218 

 Phosphate, analysis for, 214 

 Photography, 222 

 Plankton, work on, 145, 146 



of deep water, 148 

 Plankton apparatus, 181 

 Plankton machines, 163, 179 

 Plankton net, N 50, 182 



N 70, 183 



N 100, 184 



N 200, 185 



N450, 186 



TYF, 188 

 Plankton net rings, 182, 185, 186 

 Plankton nets, methods of handling, 199 



specifications, 182, 188 

 Plankton recorder, 189 

 Plankton samples, methods with, 217 

 Porpoises, preservation of, 221 

 Preservation of specimens, 218 

 Preservative for nets, 182 



Recording sheaves, 166, 179 



Rectangular nets, 206 



Rings for plankton nets, 182, 185, 186 



Ropes, see Wire ropes 



Ross Sea, work in the, 148 



Salinity, titrations for, 214 



Samson posts, 164 



Schaudinn's fluid, 218 



Secchi disc, 213 



Sheaves, recording, 166, 179 



Ships used in investigations, 151 



Silk for plankton nets, 182, 183 



Sinkers for sounding, 210 



Sketches of living animals, 222 



' Sondeur Leger', 211 



Sorting biological collections, 216 



Sounding machine, Kelvin, 169, 180 



Lucas; 168, 180, 215 

 Sounding rods, 210 

 Sounding wire, 169 

 South Africa, work on whales in, 145, 148 



South Georgia, biological station in, 223 



work on fauna of, 229 



work on whales in, 145, 228 

 South Sandwich Islands, work at, 148 

 South Shetlands, work on whales in, 148 

 Specifications of plankton nets, 182, 188 



of wire ropes, 167, 180 

 Spirit, 218 



storage on ships, 170, 180 

 Storage of specimens, 219 

 Stramin, 185 

 Stream-line leads, 199 



Stream-line rings for plankton nets, 185, 186 

 Survey equipment, 215 

 Swing table, 169, 180 

 Swivels, 199, 203 



Tanks for specimens, 221 

 Theodolites, 215 

 Thermograph, 156 

 Thermometers, 213 

 unprotected, 198 

 Tide readings, 216 

 Tow-nets, see Plankton nets 

 Transparency disc, 213 

 Traps, 207 



Trawling, 147, 148, 204, 229 

 Trawling winch, 160, 178 

 Trawls, 188, 204 

 Tubes for specimens, 172, 219 



Water bottles, 212 



Water samples, analysis of, 213, 229 



collection of, 213 

 Whale-marking, 146, 208 

 Whales, economic study of, 144 



investigations on, 145, 148, 228 



migrations of, 146 

 Whaling, history of, 143 



in Antarctic, 143 



regulations, 144 

 Whaling community, assistance given by, 149 

 'William Scoresby', 147, 174 



accommodation, 174 



arrangements for scientific work, 178 



boats, 176 



bunker capacity, 176 



construction, 174 



dimensions, 174 



machinery, 177 

 Winch, 160, 178 

 Winch-drum, auxiliary, 163 

 Wire for sounding, 169 

 Wire ropes, 167, iSo 



damage to, 162 



strains on, 168 

 Wireless sets, 157, 175 

 Wireless time signals, 216 



Young-fish trawl, 181, 188 



