TEMPERATURE AND SALINITY 



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Comment should be made on the data taken from 

 the manuscript records of several of the vessels. 

 The final reports on the operations of the Carnegie 

 in the Pacific are now in press as publications of the 

 Department of Terrestrial Magnetism of the 

 Carnegie Institution of Washington. Not only the 

 details of the observations made at the stations 

 will soon become available in print but also the 

 scientific interpretations. Dr. Harald U. Sverdrup 

 has had charge of the preparation of the reports 

 on the physical oceanography. 



The hydrological results of Discovery I under 

 the direction of Sir Douglas Mawson will also soon 

 be in print. The interpretation of the hydrological 

 data has been undertaken by Doctor Sverdrup who 

 has prepared that section of the report. The report 

 on the results of Discovery I will deal with the 

 southwest corner of the Pacific and will extend 

 entirely across the southern Indian Ocean. 



The records of stations occupied by Discovery II 

 and the William Scoresby were sent to me in the 

 form of a manuscript chart by Dr. Stanley Kemp, 

 without distinction between the stations occupied 

 by each vessel. The chart did not indicate the 

 depth to which scientific observations and collec- 

 tions were made,, and I have not yet seen any pul:)- 



lished lists of those stations, but I have seen copies 

 of the station lists for the south Atlantic Ocean. 

 Therefore on the chart of the Pacific and also on 

 that of the Indian Ocean for the stations occupied 

 by the Discovery II and the William Scoresby 

 a triangle, without indication of depth, has been 

 used to indicate the positions of the stations, 

 instead of other symbols that give definite depths. 

 Dr. Stanley Kemp also sent me manuscript charts 

 showing the positions of the stations occupied by the 

 William Scoresby off the west coast of South 

 America. For some of the stations the depth to 

 which observations and collections were made were 

 indicated but not for quite all of them. Therefore 

 for those stations for which information is not com- 

 plete the same kind of a triangle has been used as 

 that used for the stations of the Discovery II 

 and the William Scoresby around the Antarctica 

 for which information on depths was not available. 

 It may be confidently expected that the station lists 

 for the Discovery II and the William Scoresby 

 will, before a great while, become available in print. 

 The two papers by Messrs. Gunther and Deacon, 

 cited above, used information derived from the work 

 of the Discovery II and the William Scoresby 

 in the south Pacific. 



Sources of Data for the North Pacific Ocean 



NAME OF SHIP 

 TUSCARORA 



Challenger 



Gazelle 



Elisabeth 



Rambler 



TIME OF WORK 



1873 



January/April 1874 

 June 1874 

 July/Augu.st 1874 



October/Nov. 1874 & \ 

 January 1875 J 



February 1875 

 March 1875 

 April, June, July 1875 

 August 1875 

 June/July 1875 



February 1878 



June/July 1890 



Listed by A. Defant 



POSITION OF STATION 



34-54°N, 121-130°W 

 20-29°N, 144°W-160°E 

 41-44°N, 145-150°E 

 51-54''N, lo3°VV-168°E 



0-17°N, 117-126°E 



4-6°N, 124-130°E 

 2-19°N, 141-146°E 

 22-38°N, 137°E-160''W 

 20°N, 157°W 

 0-2 °N, 134-147 °E 



27°N, 140°W 



2-20°N, 1 15-125 °E 



SOUnCES OF DATA 



Makaroff, Le Vitiaz et rOc6an pacifique, 

 Petersburg 1894. Note: The original 

 source, G. E. Belknap, Deep sea sound- 

 ings in the North Pacific Ocean, ob- 

 tained by U. S. S. TuscARORA, Wash- 

 ington 1874, U. S. Hydrographic Office 

 Nr. 54 could not be examined nor could 

 the manuscript of the serial temperature 

 on the voyage Hawaii-Phoenix Islands, 

 Fiji Islands 1875-76. 



The Report of the Scientific Results of 

 the voyage H. M. S. Challenger dur- 

 ing the years 1873-1876, vol. 1, Physics 

 and C'hemistry, London 1884, pis. 123, 

 124, 126-129, 132, 134, 148, 150, 180. 



Forschungsreise S. INI. S. Gazelle, hrsg. 

 vom Reichsmarineamt, Physik und 

 Chemie, Bd. 2, Berlin 1888/89, p. 40. 



Kapitan z. S. Wickede, Tiefseebeobach- 

 tungen S. M. S. Ellsabeth, Annalen 

 der Hydrographie 1878, p. 319. 

 Hydrogr. Department of the Admiralty, 

 List of Oceanic Depths 1890, London 

 1891, pp. 10, 11. 



