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Mr. Moseley and Mr. Buchanau accompanied Captain Nares on 

 shore for an hour or two on the evening of our arrival, and took 

 the opportunity of collecting the plants and minerals within 

 their reach. A cast of the trawl taken in lat. 60° 52' S., long. 

 80° 20' E., at 1260 fathoms, was not very productive, only a few 

 of the ordinary deep-sea forms ha\ing been procured. 



Our most southerly station was on the 14th of February, lat. 65° 

 42' S., long. 79° 49' E. The trawl brought up, from a depth of 

 1675 fathoms, a considerable number of animals, including Sponges, 

 Alcyonarians, Echiuids, Bryozoa, and Crustacea, all much of the 

 usual deep-sea character, although some of the species had not 

 been pre-viously observed. On February 26th, in 1975 fathoms, 

 Umhdlularia^, Holothuria', and many examples of several species of 

 the Ananchytidce were procured ; and we found very much the 

 same group of forms at 1900 fathoms on the 3rd of March. On 

 the 7th of March, in 1800 fathoms, there were many animal forms, 

 particularly some remarkable starfishes, of a large size, of the 

 genus Hymenaster ; and on the 13th of March, at a depth of 2600 

 fathoms, vidth a bottom-temperature of 0°-2C., Hohthurice were 

 abundant, there were several starfishes and Actinia', and a very 

 elegant little Brachiopod occurred attached to peculiar concretions 

 of manganese which came up in numbers in the trawl. 



In nine successful dredgings, at depths beyond 1000 fathoms, 

 between the Cape and Australia : — 



Sponges were met with on 6 occasions. 



Ajithozoa Octactinia 7 „ 



Polyactinia 6 „ 



CrLnoidea 4 „ 



Asteroidea 8 „ 



Ophiuridea 9 „ 



Echinidea 



Holothuridea . 8 „ 



Bryozoa 6 „ 



Tunicata 5 „ 



Sipunculacea 3 „ 



Nematodes 1 „ 



Annelida 8 „ 



(Myzostomum) 2 ,, 



Balanoglossus 1 „ 



Cirripedia 4 „ 



Ostracoda 1 „ 



Isopoda 7 „ 



Amphipoda 3 „ 



Schizopoda 5 „ 



Decapoda Macrura 6 „ 



Brachyura 2 „ 



Pycnogonida 2 „ 



Lamelhbranchiata 5 „ 



Brachiopoda 2 „ 



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