. 2. 



SPITSBERGEN WATERS. 



II 



There is a great similarity both in temperature and in salinity at these 

 stations of different years (cf. Figs. 15 & 16). It looks as if the salinities of 

 1910 have a tendency to be a little too high, on the whole, at the two 

 stations 10 and u, considering that at 600 metres there were found sali- 

 nities of 34.97 and 34.99 /oo with temperatures of 1.84 and 0.45 C. 

 At a temperature of 0.45 C. the salinies hardly can have been much above 

 34.91, or 34.92 / 00 at most. 



Our Stat. 17 (79i3 / N., 7o'E.), with a depth of 1210 metres, was 

 20 miles north of Stat. 17 of the ISACHSEN Expedition (78 53' N., 7 20' E.) 

 with the same depth of i 210 metres, and 20 miles south of the Isachsen, 

 Stat. 37 (79 33' N., 8 10' E.). Owing to bad weather we had to stop be- 

 fore the observations between the surface and 300 metres had been taken. 

 Below 300 metres the following observations were taken at the three stations: 



At 300 metres the temperature was lower in 1912 than in 1910; at 

 500 and 700 metres both temperatures and salinities were considerably 



