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THE VOYAGE OF H.M.S. CHALLENGER. 



alternating glare and gloom, according as the bellows are worked or not. The lamp was 

 fixed between two cords stretched across the table, and was thus kept from shifting with 

 the rolling of the ship. After a very little practice, there was no difficulty in doing any 

 glass-blowing which could have been done by the same means on land, as long as the 

 weather was not so boisterous as to necessitate the barring in of the port. 



To the left of the blowpipe table was a small mahogany table, 30 in. long b) 7 21 in. 



Fio. 5.— Chemical Laboratory. 



broad, fixed to the window, and against the foremost sash of it. When not required it 

 could be removed and put out of the way. The working bench occupied the space against 

 the ship's side, between the port and the after bulkhead. It Was 4 ft. long, 2 ft. wide, 

 by 3 ft. 10 in. high, and was built of teak, the top in two slabs 1^ in. thick, below which 

 were arranged a number of drawers and some shelves for the reagents and apparatus in 

 constant use. The reagents were contained in bottles of four sizes, large and small for 

 liquids, and large and small for solids, with flat stoppers. The large ones held about 350 

 cubic centimetres and the small ones about 50. The large bottles occupied three drawers, 

 divided into eighteen compartments each, and the small, two drawers, each with sixty 



