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 Station 105, 15th October, 1899. 

 Lat. 16° 53' S. ; long. 145° 0' W. ; depth, 654 fathoms. 

 CORAL SAND: very little material ; black in color, gritty, quite incoherent; 

 consisting of fragments of manganese, the largest about 1 by 2 mm., fragments 

 of Corals, Pteropods, Heteropods, small Gasteropods, pelagic and bottom- 

 living Foraminifera, minute particles of obsidian and felspar. 



Station 106, 16th October, 1899. 

 Lat. 16° 55' S . ; long. 144° 56' W. ; depth, 269 fathoms. 



CORAL SAND : cream colored, gritty, quite incoherent ; consisting of Coral 

 fragments, Alcyonarian spicules, Echinoid spines, pelagic and bottom-living 

 Foraminifera, Pteropods, Heteropods, small Gasteropods {Pleurotoma), Serpula. 



Station 107, 16th October, 1899. 

 Lat. 16° 24' S. ; long. 143° 59' W. ; depth, 467 fathoms. 



CORAL SAND : cream colored, granular, quite incoherent ; appears to 

 have been washed ; contains Coral and Mollusc-shell fragments, Alcyonarian 

 spicules, Echinoid spines, Ostracodes, otoliths, pelagic and bottom-living 

 Foraminifera, Pteropod fragments, Heteropods, Serpula, one or two Tunicate 

 spicules observed ; also small particles of felspar, obsidian, and magnetite. 



Station 108, 16th October, 1899. 

 Lat. 16° 20' S. ; long. 143° 55' W. ; depth, 856 fathoms. 



PTEROPOD OOZE : cream colored, granular, slightly coherent ; appears 

 to have been washed ; consists of Pteropods, Heteropods, pelagic and bottom- 

 living Foraminifera, Alcyonarian spicules, Echinoid spines, Ostracodes, 

 otoliths, small Lamellibranchs and Gasteropods, Serpula, Coral fragments ; 

 a few grains of plagioclase, oligoclase, sanidine, magnetite, and volcanic glass 

 (but no ferro-magnesian minerals) were observed. 



Station 110, 16th October, 1899. 

 Lat. 16° 3' S. ; long. 143° 32' W. ; depth, 1084 fathoms. 



GLOBIGERINA OOZE : cream colored with tinge of pink, granular, quite 

 incoherent ; has the appearance of having been partly washed ; consists of 

 pelagic and bottom-living Foraminifera, Pteropods, otoliths, Ostracodes, 

 Echinoid spines, small Lamellibranchs and Gasteropods, Tunicate spicules, 

 coccoliths, rhabdoliths ; Sponge spicules, Radiolaria ; one or two fragments 



