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PETTERSSON, SIBERIÄN SEA. 



Wr ängel and by American officers bear out the fact, that the 

 current in this strait and in the adjacent parts of the Siberian 

 Sea changes its direction with the seasons. Dr. Stuxberg^ 

 asserts that, according to the statement of the aborigines, the 

 water in antnmn and winter flows from the arctic sea into 

 the Pacific, in spring and summer in the contrary direction. 

 The observations of the Vega-expedition, made on the 27*^ & 

 28''*' July, do not contradict this rule. The temperature and 

 saltness of the water at the Asiatic coast can very well belong 

 to a current of Pacific water flowing northward, whereof the 

 warmer branch takes its way along the eastern coast of the 

 Behring strait. 



' ; Evertebratfaunan i Sibiriens Ishaf.» Vega- expeditionens vetenskap- 

 liga iakttagelser, Bd I. Lately Mr. H. W. Dall has published some observ- 

 ations from the Behring Strait made on board the schooner Yukon. [Ameri- 

 can Journal of Sciences XXI, 1881] fröna which I cite the following lines: 

 »The water is warmest toward the American side. The highest temperature 

 (commencement of Sept.) is 48° F. and the lowest about 36" F. . . . The 

 uniformity of the temperatures from top to bottom does away with the idea 

 of a sub-surface current from the Arctic ocean carryingcold water soutliward.» 



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