104 EXPEDITION OF THE “ALBATROSS,” 1899-1900. 
30° 22/ N., long. 154° 56’ W., Physalia appears, and the Radiolarians vary 
from twelve to seventeen species. At Station 257 there are not more than 
four species recorded for the surface, off Molokai there were not more 
than five surface Radiolarians obtained, and at Station 260, in the centre 
of the Hawaiian group, there are recorded from the surface : Diatoms, Globi- 
gerine, many Radiolarians, and other pelagic animals, such as Medusze, 
Siphonophores, Sagitta, Annelid larvae, Copepods, Hyperids, Euphausia, 
Pteropods, Tunicates, and Gasteropod larve, though in the other groups 
of pelagic animals there has been, as a general rule, a very marked uni- 
formity in the surface hauls. 
The (open) tow-nets at Station 241, lat. 35° 41’ N., long. 157° 42’ E., 
were sent to sixty fathoms, and at Station 246 they were sent into deep 
water, and when brought up contained all the things found at the surface 
and additional Radiolarians different from those found at the surface. 
At Station 247, depth 2530 fathoms, lat. 85°48’ N., long. 179° 57° W., 
the (open) tow-nets were sent down to 1200 and 1500 fathoms, and many 
. Radiolarians “abundant in deposits, but only rarely taken in the surface 
nets” (the italics are mine). On the surface at Station 249, lat. Sf 00 Ma 
long. 171° 48’ W., the stomachs of the Cirriped Zoée were filled with 
Coecospheres, Coccoliths, Rhabdospheres and Rhabdoliths, and their ex- 
crements were composed of masses of these small Algae and Diatoms. 
The stomachs of Euphausie contained the remains of Acanthometrae and 
Diatoms. 
At Station 250, lat. 37° 49’ N., long. 166° 47’ W., the tow-nets attached 
to the trawl “which must have towed for a time at a depth of from 300 
to 600 fathoms,” contained Challengerida, Tuscaroride, and the like, which 
were not found in the tow-nets dragged within thirty fathoms of the 
surface. 
At Station 251, lat. 37° 87’ N., long. 163° 26’ W., Velella was very abun- 
dant again. At Station 254, lat. 35° 13’ N., long. 154° 43’ W., a tow-net 
haul was made in 100 fathoms containing Challengeride. Murray again says, 
at Station 257, distant 402 miles ‘from Oahu, lat. 27° 33’ N., a haul of the 
tow-net from 500 fathoms “brought up Globigerina, Orbulina, Pulvinulina, 
Phxodaria, and other Radiolaria not usually observed at the surface” (the italics 
