216 Mr. 0. Holmqvist on Fishes collected during 



To this list may be added two small fishes, the state of 

 preservation of which, however, renders them indeterminable : 

 one was captured with tlie surface-net in Inglefield Gulf, 

 the other was obtained in the trawl off Northuraberhind Island. 

 Both seem to belong to the same species, but are certainly 

 different from any other species collected during the expe- 

 dition. 



As shown by this list, the locality marked Inglefield Gulf 

 has been, beyond all other places, the most fruitful in results. 

 Not less than seven species, represented by ninety-nine indi- 

 viduals, were obtained at tliis station. This circumstance may 

 depend partly on the fact that this locality has been trawled 

 twice, while at each of the other stations but one dredging 

 was performed (as communicated to me by Dr. Ohlin). 



The station of Murchison's Sound was situated "just where 

 a river from a recedent glacier was flowing out into the sea, 

 the water being liere, to a considerable distance from the 

 sljore, very brackisli " *. The occurrence in this place of 

 purely marine forms, such as Eumicrotremus spinosus and 

 Lycodes Liitkenii, shows, however, that the water was of a 

 normal saltness at the bottom. 



The material obtained by tlie dredge necessarily affords a 

 very imperfect idea of the fish-fauna, the trawl-net hardly 

 being able to catch other than slow-swimming bottom- 

 species. Apart from this circumstance, the fish-material of 

 the expedition may be considered very satisfactory, as is 

 clearly shown in comparison with former arctic expeditions. 

 The ' Dijmphna-Togt ' was among the most fruitful in 

 results. This expedition achieved not less than 190 dredgings 

 in various parts of the Kara Sea, amongst which only 

 28 trawlings produced 170 specimens ; these represented 11 

 species. Nares's expedition executed a great number of 

 trawlings off North-western Greenland on a wide area between 

 78° and 83° N. lat., but obtained only 23 marine fishes, be- 

 longing to 7 species. During the Peary Auxiliary Expedition 

 but a i&w limited dredgings were effected ; yet no less than 

 9(10) species of fishes were obtained, represented by 158 (160) 

 specimens: besides which a number of Cottid fishes were 

 thrown away through lack of preservative material, as I am 

 informed by Dr. Ohlin. Comparatively speaking, this result 

 is much greater than that of the ' Dijmphna' Expedition — 

 nay, in proportion to the number of trawlings it probably is 

 the most considerable product that any previous arctic expe- 

 dition has afforded. 



• Ohlin, /. c. p. 171. 



