APPENDIX 



ihe M. S. of the preceding work was completed in January 1908 and the printing 

 was begun at the end of April in the same year. Since then I have made another cruise 

 in the Atlantic with the "Thor", during which investigations were made at 100 stations 

 in May, June, July and August. 



The following summary shows the position of these stations (see the summary for the 

 years 1903 — 06 on page 5): 



The Atlantic cruise of the "Thor" in 1908. 



Duration of the cruise: 12. May — 10. August. 

 May: North Sea, North of Scotland, Minch, Rockall Channel, Rockall Bank, Rockall 



Bank to Iceland. 

 June: Iceland. 

 July: Iceland. 

 August: Iceland to the Faeroes, the Fseroes to Scotland, North Sea. 



As I considered it of great interest to add to the present work as much as possible 

 of the results I obtained on this expedition, the gadoid fry were already investigated, 

 determined and measured on board. When correcting the proofs during the expedition I 

 was now and then able to add remarks in the text referring to the results gained on the 

 expedition in 1908, as will be seen in the preceding work, e. g. on pages 19, 29, 41 etc. 

 Moreover, all our pelagic hauls in 1908 and the quantity of gadoid fry we obtained 

 thereby are shown in the tables on p. 212 — 218 exactly in the same way as the trawlings 

 for the years 1903 — 1906. On the other hand, I did not succeed in adding all the material 

 from 1908 on the charts of distribution (Charts 1 — VIII), the reproduction being already 

 commenced in July 1908. All the material obtained during the month of May is 

 however added on the charts, as I sent home from Iceland the lists of the gadoid fry 

 caught at the stations 1 — 28. These stations, which were investigated during the last 

 half of May, and the first days of June and the results at which are added on the charts, 

 lie N. and W. of Scotland round the Hebrides, in Eockall Channel, on Rockall Bank itself 

 and thereabout as also on the stretch between this Bank and the Vestman Islands (South 

 Iceland). On the other hand, the results obtained after this time from the stations 29 — 

 100. are not entered on the charts. This want is however of no great importance, on the 

 one hand, because we did not work much with our pelagic nets at the stations 29 — 100 (see 

 the tables p. 212 — 218) and on the other, because these are principally near Iceland, where 

 in former years we had a large number of stations, the results of which do not differ from 



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