PRELIMINARY REPORT. 67 
tropical Pacific, I have prepared an abstract of the results of the “ Chal- 
las well as a succinct account of the 
lenger” from trawling and dredging, 
surface tows and of the bottom deposits compiled from the published 
records of the “Challenger.” The same has been done for the results of the 
“ Albatross,” which have been treated in the same way and discussed with 
reference to the Pacific area covered by us to the eastward and northward 
of the “ Challenger” lines, and to the westward of the Society Islands as far 
as Fiji, and from there to Guam via the Ellice, Gilbert, Marshall, and 
Caroline Islands. From Guam, as our line to Yokohama practically du- 
plicated that of the “Challenger” we merely made a passage from the 
Ladrones to Japan. 
The following are the results of the trawling and dredging of the “ Challenger” 
in the Pacific, from the Admiralty Islands to Yokohama, thence to the Ha- 
watian Islands, to Tahiti and Valparaiso. 5 
Leaving out of consideration Station 220, not more than eighty miles 
from the Admiralty Islands, where a good haul of the trawl was made 
in 1100 fathoms, we have Stations 221 and 222, where no haul was made; 
we then come to Station 223, lat. 5° 31’ N., long. 145° 13’ E., where a 
haul of the trawl was made in 2325 fathoms, but which contained only 
a young Hyocrinus, a small siliceous sponge attached to a piece of pumice, 
and a Peneid and a couple of Gonostoma, neither of which probably 
came from the bottom. This station was 464 miles from Guam, and some 
of the Carolines were not more than 90 miles distant. At the next 
station, 224, lat. 7 45’ N., long. 144 20’ E., in 1850 fathoms, the nearest 
Caroline being 52 miles and Guam 330 miles, the trawl contained only a 
deep-sea coral, one species of starfish, and two Ophiurans. At the deepest 
station, 225, lat. 11° 24’ N., long. 143° 16’ E., occupied by the “Challenger” 
in 4475 fathoms, about 140 miles southwest of Guam, only samples of the 
bottom were brought up while sounding. At the next station, 226, 
lat. 14° 44’ N., long. 142° 13’ E., in 2300 fathoms, about 150 miles north- 
west from Guam, the trawl brought up fragments of Freyella, and one 
1 General Summary of the scientific observations and results at each of the ‘Challenger ” observing 
stations, by John Murray. 
