PRELIMINARY REPORT. 83 
Station 7. Lat. 18° 19° N., long. 134° 57° W. Very poor haul. Small 
Physalia; small blue and black Copepods; Globigerinx ; young flying-fish, 
and young of other pelagic fishes ; fragments of Pyrosoma. 
At 8 p.m., madea very successful haul in lat. 17° 32’ N., long. 135° 40’ W., 
on the same date as at Station 7. Small transparent Taonius, Copepods, 
Kuphausix, Sergestes, embryos of Hyperia, Atlanta, and Styliola, Aleyope, 
Porpita, Halobates, bells of Diphyes and of Agalma, Crystalloides, Sagitta, 
very large species, Firoloides, 2 species of Salpx, Collozoum. We collected 
in great abundance all the species we obtained in the morning at Station 7, 
from 150 fathoms, and then to the surface. 
Station 12. Lat. 12° 07’ N., long. 137° 18’ W. This haul contained Col- 
lozoum, and a few Globigerinw; small blue, yellow, and brown Copepods 
were quite abundant. At 8 p.m. of same day, in lat. 10° 57.6’ N., long. 
137° 35.4" W., made a surface haul. Euphausie were very abundant, 
small phosphorescent fishes, and many other young surface fish, Copepods, 
three species of Pteropods, Spirialis, Salpw, three species of Sergestes larva, 
small Macrurans, Halobates. This haul being so successful, we made a 
second one immediately after it, and obtained very little; the same things 
were collected, but fewer in number, and the absence of Euphausix in this 
second trial was especially marked. 
Station 13. Lat. 9° 57’ N., long. 137° 47’ W. In this surface haul we 
collected practically all the so-called deep-sea types which came up in the 
“Blake” trawl when dragging from 3088 fathoms to the surface. On the 
surface Porpitidas were common, as well as flying-fishes; we were evi- 
dently in the equatorial current. The net contained very many small 
Sagittz, and small Copepods, only a few large ones, Atlanta, Hyalea, Spiri- 
alis, Thysanopoda, Nyctophanes, Nematocelis, Stylocheirus. A very young 
Physalia, the youngest yet observed, was drawn by Dr. Mayer. Young 
Diphyes. There were no Euphausiew in this haul. We made a second 
surface-haul at the same place and obtained the same things and in ad- 
dition Halobates. Same date, surface-haul at 8.30 Pp. m., lat. 9° 26’ N., 
long. 137° 49’ W., very much like that of the previous night, without the 
surface fishes, only one young fish, Spirialis, Tiedemannia, Cuvieria, Kuphau- 
six, Amphipods, Sergestes, Hyperia, large blue Copepods, and a few others, 
