CHAP. iv.J THE CRUISES Of THE 'PORCUPINE: 



of the first cruise, at a time when both Dr. Carpenter 

 and I were occupied with our official work. A young 

 Swedish naturalist, Mr. Joshua Lindahl of the Uni 

 versity of Lund, accompanied him as zoological 

 assistant, and Mr. "W. L. Carpenter took charge of 

 the chemical department. It was arranged that Mr. 

 Jeffreys' cruise should extend from Palmouth to 

 .Gibraltar. Dr. Carpenter and I were to have re 

 lieved him at Gibraltar, meeting the vessel there, and 

 ;o have worked together as we did the year before ; 

 jut I was unfortunately laid up with an attack of 

 ever, and the whole charge of the last cruise in the 

 {Mediterranean rested with Dr. Carpenter. Owing to 

 fhis untoward circumstance, I must give at second- 

 iand the brief account of the first part of the work 

 if the year 1870 which is necessary to complete the 

 ketch of what has been done towards the illus- 

 ration of the condition and fauna of the North 

 Ulantic. In the Mediterranean Dr. Carpenter found 

 le conditions of temperature and of the distribu- 

 on of animal life entirely exceptional, as might 

 ave been to a certain extent anticipated from the 

 xceptional circumstances of that land-locked sea. 

 he investigation of 1870 can only be said to have 

 roken ground towards the solution of a series of 

 ery special and peculiar problems ; and I am not 

 a position to go farther at present than to indicate 

 e general results at which my colleague has arrived. 

 The ' Porcupine ' left Ealniouth on the 4th of July, 

 ut was detained in the Channel for several days by 

 gs and contrary winds. On the 7th of July, they 

 cached the slope from the plateau of the Channel to 

 le deep water of the Atlantic, and took a first haul 



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