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Echinoid frcOgments and spines, Alcyonarian spicules, small Gasteropods and 

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

 Pteropod fragments, Heteropod fragments, Polyzoa ; small particles of 

 obsidian were observed. 



Station 117, 18th October, 1899. 

 Lat. 15° 54' S. ; long. 142° 16' W. ; depth, 563 fathoms. 



Only one or two small fragments of decomposed pumice, coated with 

 manganese, were at hand, the largest being about 2 mm. in length, also some 

 calcareous grains, which look like Coral fragments. 



Station 118, 18th October, 1899. 

 Lat. 16° 12' S. ; long. 142° 31' W. ; depth, 630 fathoms. 



CORAL SAND : gray, granular, quite incoherent ; appears to have been 

 washed ; consists of fragments of Corals, Polyzoa, small Lamellibranchs and 

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

 Pteropods, Heteropods, Echinoid spines, Alcyonarian spicules, Tunicate 

 spicules ; small particles of obsidian and magnetite were observed. 



Station 119, 18th October, 1899. 

 Lat. 16° 14' S. ; long. 142° 50' W. ; depth, 1516 fathoms. 



GLOBIGERINA OOZE : cream colored, granular, quite incoherent ; appears 

 to have been washed; consists of pelagic and bottom-living Foraminifera, 

 otoliths, Ostracodes, Tunicate spicules, coccoliths, rhabdoliths ; minute par- 

 ticles of obsidian and magnetite were observed. 



Station 120, 18th October, 1899. 

 Lat. 16° 21' S. ; long. 143° 14' W. ; depth, 928 fathoms. 



COEAL SAND or PTEROPOD OOZE : very little material ; cream colored, 

 granular, quite incoherent ; appears to have been washed ; contains Coral 

 fragments, Polyzoa, Pteropods, Heteropods, pelagic and bottom-living Fora- 

 minifera, Ostracodes, otoliths, Tunicate spicules ; small particles of obsidian 

 and magnetite. 



Station 121, 19th October, 1899. 

 Lat. 16° 25' S. ; long. 143° 33' W. ; depth, 1108 fathoms. 



PTEROPOD OOZE : very little material; granular, cream colored, inco- 

 herent ; has the appearance of having been washed ; consists of Pteropods, 



