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decision first on account of the richness of the locality in 

 Actinozoa, as proved by the work of Herr Storm, and secondly 

 and more particularly because Prof. G. O. Sars had found so 

 many new and rare Amphipoda in its waters. 



Trondlijem, or Urontheim, as it is commonly spelt in 

 England, is in about lat. 63° 25', or some 1° 50' south of the 

 Arctic Circle. The fiord is very tortuous, first, near its entrance, 

 running nearly south, then west, and ultimately making its 

 way N. by E. for a great distance in a direction nearly 

 parallel with that of the coast. Taking into account the 

 varied windings it probably is as long, or nearly so, as the two 

 great Sogne and Hardanger Fiords, and the square miles of 

 water which it embraces must, I think, be fully equal to that 

 of either of the two fiords named. 



1 took with me as assistant Mr. Andrew Scott, son of 

 Mr. Thomas Scott, of the Scotch Fishery Board. The 

 working apparatus consisted of three dredges of different sizes, 

 a small trawl, towing-net, hand-nets, 600 fathoms of rope 

 and 200 fathoms of whale-line, a hand-winch (without which 

 dredging in 200-300 fathoms is, of course, out of the 

 question), sieves, &c,, and cases of jars and bottles of various 

 sizes. As my chief object was to obtain small species, the 

 nets of the dredges were made either of cheese-cloth or old 

 cofFee-bags. These rapidly filled and brought up all tlie 

 finest mud. A consequence of this was that while these nets 

 admirably served my special purpose, they did not sweep over 

 the ground in the way that nets with a large mesh which let 

 the mud pass through would have done ; and thus, while I 

 was amply rewarded by the small forms obtained, I did not 

 procure the same, or anything like the same, number of large 

 Echinoderms &c. which might liave been secured in the same 

 time had another mode of collecting been employed. 



A rather small boat with lugger sail was hired at Trondhjem, 

 a considerably larger one, but similarly rigged, at Rodberg. 

 Three or four men and ourselves were the boats' complement 

 of hands. 



I spent the first fortnight at Trondhjem and a fortnight 

 and a few days at Rodberg. 



Trondhjem was not found to be very rich. The best 

 shallow-water ground seemed to be that between the land and 

 the islet of Munkholmen. The English Channel Fleet, 

 however, was lying at anchor in this part during most 

 of the time I was there, and this somewhat interfered with 

 working this ground. To the east of this the river Nid 

 flows into the fiord with a Yery strong current and large 

 volume of water, and while the former is not lielpful to 



