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[uently entangled in large numbers on the loose 

 This group seems to be specially characteristic 

 >f the sea at an arctic temperature. They are re- 

 >rted of almost incredible size, thirty centimetres or 

 across, from the late German and Swedish polar 

 :peditions, and they have also been found enor- 



FIG. 22. Nymphon abyssnmm, NORMAN. Slightly enlarged (No. 56.) 



ously large in deep water in the antarctic regions, 

 ey often come up clinging to the sounding line. 

 The Mollusca, which in the preceding cruises 

 ually constituted the principal results of the 

 edging, were here quite subordinate as regards 

 number and variety to the groups already 

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