80 EXPEDITION OF THE “ALBATROSS,” 1899-1900. 
One cannot fail to notice the frequent occurrence of particles of man- 
ganese and of small manganese nodules in the deposits through the Pau- 
motus and Society Islands. 
In the deep water between Niue and Tonga which culminates at Station 
188. (lat. 21° 18" S., long. .173° 51’ W.) in 4640 fathoms, we meet with red- 
clay deposits containing Radiolaria, as at Stations 183 (lat. 19° 04'S. long. 
167° 41! W.), 184, and 185 in 2472, 3141, and 4173 fathoms, though at 
Station 182 the red clay in 2882 fathoms contained a considerable percent- 
age of Globigerine. 
On the way from Vavau to Fiji we found volcanic mud to the westward 
of Letté while crossing the volcanic ridge which runs parallel to the Tonga 
Islands Plateau. Crossing the eastern Fiji Plateau we meet with deposits 
of coarse coral-sand, Pteropod ooze, and fine coral-ooze, associated with man- 
ganese particles and Globigerine, much as in the deposits of the Paumotus. 
On our way through the Ellice and Gilbert Islands to Jaluit we obtained 
in the proximity of the islands coarse coral-sand, Pteropod ooze, and fine 
coral-sand ooze more or less mixed with Globigerins. In the deeper 
waters separating the islands of each group, and the groups themselves, we 
encountered only Globigerina ooze, varying greatly in the size of the 
species obtained; very coarse species being met with at Stations 198, 
lat. 0° 46'N., long. 173° 09’ E., and 202 in the Gilbert group in 1365 and 
1569 fathoms. 
At. Station 197, in 2221 fathoms, between Apamama and Maiana, we 
met with the same Globigerins, characterizing the equatorial current, which 
we had obtained before in the Paumotus and to the northward, Although 
on our way to Jaluit from Taritari we sounded in over 2500 fathoms, 
yet we nowhere obtained red clay in the bottom deposit, either on that line 
or in the deep water separating the islands of the Ellice or of the Gilbert 
group. See Stations 197, 2221 fathoms; 204 (lat. 1° 62’ N., long. 173° 
15! E.), 2156 fathoms ; 206, 2255 fathoms ; 208 (lat. 3° bY Ns, long. 172° i), 
9486 fathoms; 209, 2505 fathoms; 210, 2444 fathoms; 211 (lat. 5° 20’ N., 
long. 169° 43’ E.), 2411 fathoms; at all of which Globigerina ooze was 
obtained. We found the same conditions in the Marshall group, coarse 
coral-sand, passing, according to depth and distance from land, into fine 
