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Foraminifera, Echinoid spines, otoliths, Ostracodes, small Gasteropods, Tuni- 

 cate spicules, coccoliths, rliabdoliths ; minute particles of obsidian, felspar, 

 and magnetite. 



Station 127, 26th October, 1899. 

 Lat. 17° 20' S. ; long. 142° 35' W. ; depth, 617 fathoms. 



PTEROPOD OOZE : cream colored, fine-grained, incoherent ; appears to 

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

 living Foraminifera, small Lamellibranchs and Gasteropods, otoliths, Ostra- 

 codes, Tunicate spicules, rhabdoliths, coccoliths; small particles of felspar, 

 obsidian, and magnetite. 



Station 129, 27th October, 1899. 

 Lat. 17° 35' S. ; long. 142° 42' W. ; depth, 348 fathoms. 



CORAL SAND : cream colored, granular, incoherent ; contains Coral frag- 

 ments, Alcyonarian spicules, Echinoid spines, Pteropod fragments, Hetero- 

 pods, otoliths, Ostracodes, pelagic and bottom-living Foraminifera, Polyzoa, 

 Tunicate spicules; minute particles of obsidian were observed. 



Station 130, 27th October, 1899. 

 Lat. 17° 35' S. ; long. 142° 44' W. ; depth, 798 fathoms. 



CORAL SAND or PTEROPOD OOZE: cream colored, granular, inco- 

 herent; appears to have been washed; contains Coral fragments, Pteropods, 

 Heteropods, Polyzoa, otoliths, Ostracodes, Alcyonarian spicules, Echinoid 

 spines, small Lamellibranchs and Gasteropods, pelagic and bottom-living 

 Foraminifera, Tunicate spicules ; one or two minute particles of felspar and 

 obsidian observed. 



Station 131, 28th October, 1899. 

 Lat. 17° 47' S. ; long. 142° 29' W. ; depth, 1372 fathoms. 



GLOBIGERINA OOZE : cream colored, fine-grained, slightly coherent ; ap- 

 pears to have been washed ; contains pelagic and bottom-living Foram- 

 inifera, Pteropods, Heteropods, otoliths, Ostracodes, small Lamellibranchs, 

 Tunicate spicules, rhabdoliths, coccoliths; Sponge spicules; minute particles 

 of felspar and obsidian. 



