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sea Crustacea, which are obtained in the open tow-nets at less than 150 
fathoms from the surface. 
At Station 13, in 2690 fathoms, lat. 9° 57’ N., long. 137° 47 W., red 
clay, Radiolarian ooze, light-brown ooze. The “Blake” trawl came up full 
of large manganese nodules, balls varying in diameter from 4} to over 6 
inches; a few of the largest measured 64” in diameter. The bottom 
contained some animal life, but of course in their long passage to the 
surface, among such a mass of rubble, the delicate deep-sea animals come 
up very much disfigured and ground to pieces. Attached to some of 
the nodules we found pink Webbinas, a small Voluta (?), three species 
of Holothurians, among which one brilliant red I could recognize as a 
Peniagone. We found also a fragment of a stem of Bathycrinus, half a 
dozen joints or so, and part of the upper portion of a Metacrinus (?), a small 
Brachiopod (Magasella?) and a few worm-tubes, large siliceous spicules, 
and a species of incrusting siliceous sponge, together with delicate cal- 
careous worm-tubes attached to some of the flat nodules, and some Serpule 
tubes. A few Schizopods found their way into the trawl-net on its way to 
the surface. There were also large reddish-brown Globigerine, evidently 
living at that depth in the interstices of the manganese nodules,' a large 
red Nemertean allied to Pelagonemertes, and a small tough-skinned gray- 
white Actinian measuring about an inch in diameter when contracted. 
We also brought up the same egg-shaped organism with a thin greenish 
skin about half an inch in diameter, found by the “Blake” and former 
“ Albatross”? expeditions, the nature of which I have not been able to 
determine. The manganese nodules were all more or less mammary; 
this is specially well-developed in the flat pieces. 
Station 17, 2463 fathoms, lat. 0° 50° N., long. 137° 54’ W., fine, light- 
gray, yellowish Globigerina ooze. An excellent haul was made with the 
“Blake” trawl, considering its depth and its distance from the nearest land; 
1 Dr. Mayer kept surface Globigerine in the dark for three weeks. They were brilliant carmine 
when collected, and at the end of that time had lost all their color and had become quite pale, like 
those found at the bottom. The only colored Globigerine we found on the bottom were those 
living attached on the surface or between the cracks of manganese nodules. ‘These were dull 
reddish-brown, with much heavier and coarser tests than the carmine or colored species living at the 
surface or near it. 
