2 Messrs. J. Wood-Mason and A. Alcock on 



enlist the interest of European naturalists in an almost 

 unworked field of Indian zoology, and not single-handed to 

 engage in an impossible research. 



The apparatus generally used was a reversible trawl with 

 steel-wire rope. 



List of the ^Investigator ' Deep-sea Dredging- Stations 

 during the Season 1889-90. 



