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DISCOVERY REPORTS 



to have a more or less completely circumpolar distribution. Of the distribution of the 

 sixth species Hyper ammina novae- zealandiae, reported by Wiesner off the Cape of Good 

 Hope, I have written elsewhere (p. i8). 



THE GERMAN SOUTH POLAR EXPEDITION, 1901-3 

 The ' Gauss ' under von Drygalski wintered in the ice off Kaiser Wilhelm's Land in 

 about 66° 2' S, 89° 38' E. The report on the Foraminifera was not published until 193 1, 

 the long delay being due partly to divided authorship. Rhumbler, who commenced the 

 examination of the material, could not find time for its completion, and handed his 

 observations including some new genera and species to Wiesner, by whom the work 

 was completed and issued. The report deals with the entire voyage of the ' Gauss' out 

 and home, via Kerguelen Island, and is therefore a mixed bag of tropical, subtropical, 

 sub-Antarctic and Antarctic species. As there is neither map nor station list in the 

 report the separation of the faunas is not easy. An earlier report (E. Philippi, Die 

 Grundproben der Deutschen Sud-polar Expedition, 19 10, German South Polar Reports, 

 II (6), pp. 411-616) shows that Sts. 47-72 lie on the Antarctic continental shelf and 

 slope, while Sts. 73-86 are on the floor of the Indo-Antarctic basin, and owing to their 

 depth and latitude (lowest latitude, 62° 4' S) may be regarded as genuinely Antarctic. 

 With this information as a guide I made an analysis of Wiesner 's records. Of the 

 371 species and varieties, 216 were found on the continental shelf and slope, and fifty- 

 two others in the deep water of the Indo-Antarctic basin, but not on the slope. The 

 balance are sub-Antarctic (Kerguelen, etc.), tropical (Cape Verde) and pelagic. 



An exact comparison of the Gauss, Terra Nova and Discovery faunas would be very 



