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THE DEPTH AND MARINE DEPOSITS OF THE PACIFIC OCEAN. 123 
Station 105, 15th October, 1899. 
Lat. 16° 53’S.; long. 145° 0’ W.; depth, 654 fathoms. 
CORAL SAND: very little material ; black in color, gritty, quite incoherent ; 
consisting of fragments of manganese, the largest about 1 by 2 mm., fragments 
of Corals, Pteropods, Heteropods, small Gasteropods, pelagic and bottom- 
living Foraminifera, minute particles of obsidian and felspar. 
Station 106, 16th October, 1899. 
Lat. 16° 55’S.; long. 144° 56’ W.; depth, 269 fathoms. 
CORAL SAND: cream colored, gritty, quite incoherent; consisting of Coral 
fragments, Alcyonarian spicules, Echinoid spines, pelagic and bottom-living 
Foraminifera, Pteropods, Heteropods, small Gasteropods (Plewrotoma), Serpula. 
Station 107, 16th October, 1899. 
Lat. 16° 24’S.; long. 143° 59’ W.; depth, 467 fathoms. 
CORAL SAND: cream colored, granular, quite incoherent; appears to 
have been washed ; contains Coral and Mollusc-shell fragments, Alcyonarian 
spicules, Hchinoid spines, Ostracodes, otoliths, pelagic and bottom-living 
Foraminifera, Pteropod fragments, Heteropods, Serpula, one or two Tunicate 
spicules observed ; also small particles of felspar, obsidian, and magnetite. 
Station 108, 16th October, 1899. 
Lat. 16° 20’S. ; long. 143° 55’ W.; depth, 856 fathoms. 
PTEROPOD OOZE: cream colored, granular, slightly coherent; appears 
to have been washed ; consists of Pteropods, Heteropods, pelagic and bottom- 
living Foraminifera, Alcyonarian spicules, Echinoid spines, Ostracodes, 
otoliths, small Lamellibranchs and Gasteropods, Serpula, Coral fragments ; 
a few grains of plagioclase, oligoclase, sanidine, magnetite, and volcanic glass 
(but no ferro-magnesian minerals) were observed. 
Station 110, 16th October, 1899. 
Lat. 16° 3’8.; long. 143° 32’ W. ; depth, 1084 fathoms. 
GLOBIGERINA OOZE: cream colored with tinge of pink, granular, quite 
incoherent ; has the appearance of having been partly washed ; consists of 
pelagic and bottom-living Foraminifera, Pteropods, otoliths, Ostracodes, 
Kehinoid spines, small Lamellibranchs and Gasteropods, Tunicate spicules, 
coccoliths, rhabdoliths; Sponge spicules, Radiolaria; one or two fragments 
