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lo: 35 A. M. Put the Manila rope yam tangle drag overboard with 

 80 fathoms of line and hauled a great many hydroids and crus- 

 taceans. 



10: 35 A. M. We hauled in a fine lot of fish of the same kinds as on 

 " Challenger Bank" with hook and line. 



11: 10 A.M. Wind now changing to the west and northward; 

 ugly clouds overcast the horizon and every indication of a north- 

 west gale. We had the Manila rope yam drag overboard, but 

 the heavy seas would lift and jerk it off the bottom although 

 heavily weighed with 50-lb. leads; we were obliged to heave it 

 on board, with fair results. 



Weather warm and thermometer ranging about 75° to 80° 

 throughout the two days. 



11: 45 A. M. Heavy rain and dark thick weather obscured every- 

 thing, and ship rolling and thumping into a cross sea. 



ii:55A. .M. We left "Argus Bank, " steering northeast for east 

 end Bermuda; thick weather. 



2: 30 p. M. Sighted Gibbs Hill Lighthouse, bearing north. 



By Ship Log "Argus Bank" to "St. Davids Island Light;" 

 east end of Bermuda is 38 miles, N. E. course. 



4 p. M. Arrived in St. George's Harbor, all well, with a good catch 



on board. 



Captain Harry Chester, 



Tug "Gladisfen." 



The expedition obtained 166 species of fishes of which twelve are 

 believed to be new to science. The new species, with one exception, 

 were described in the Proceedings of the Biological Society of Wash- 

 ington, Feb. 26, 1906. The whole number of recorded species, as 

 will be seen from the subjoined catalogue, is 261. 



Only a single species belongs to the fresh-water series, and that 

 is the introduced goldfish. A killifish (Fundulus bermudce) is native 

 to the brackish waters in several of the islands. The rest of the 

 fishes are marine and nearly all are members of the West Indian 

 fauna. 



Since the return of the expedition Mr. Louis L. Mowbray has 

 obtained the following species: Siphostoma jonesi, Rhomboplitcs 

 aurarubens, Canthigasier rostratus, and an undetermined Pontinus. 



The writer, because of pressure of other work, cannot at present 

 discuss the characteristics and the relations of the Bermuda fishes, 

 but desires to submit a list of the species mentioned by recent writers 



