ON INVESTIGATIONS IN THE INDIAN OCEAN. 351 
Investigations in the Indian Ocean.—Second Report of the Committee 
consisting of Sir JOHN Murray (Chairman), Mr. J. SranLey 
GARDINER (Secretary), Captain E. W. Creak, Professors W. A. 
HerpmaN, 8. J. Hickson, and J. W. Jupp, Mr. J. J. Lister, Dr. 
H.R. MILL, and Dr. D. Suarp, appointed to carry on an Expedition 
to investigate the Indian Ocean between India and South Africa in 
view of a possible land connection, to examine the deep submerged 
banks, the Nazareth and Saza de Malha, and also the distribution 
of marine animals. 
THE Committee record with deep regret the death of Dr. Simpson, surgeon 
on board H.M.S. ‘Sealark,’ who undertook the collections and preserva- 
tion of the land plants obtained by the expedition. 
The Committee have received the following report from Mr. J. Stanley 
Gardiner, who has had charge of the work :— 
Work has proceeded regularly during the past year on the collections 
obtained by the expedition. The dredged and reef-living animals have 
been sorted, and so far the following groups have been sent out for 
determination : Sponges (Professor A. Dendy), Hydroids (Dr. Marrett 
Tims), Stylasteridz (Professor 8. J. Hickson), Actiniaria (Mr. J. A. Clubb), 
Antipatharia (Mr. C. Forster Cooper), Madreporaria (Mr. J. Stanley 
Gardiner), Alcyonaria (Professor J. Arthur Thomson), Pennatulide (Pro- 
fessor 8. J. Hickson), Turbellaria (Mr. F. F. Laidlaw), Nemerteans (Mr. 
R. C. Punnett), Gephyrea (Mr. W. F. Lanchester), Cheetopoda (Mr. F. A. 
Potts), Cephalopoda (Dr. W. E. Hoyle), Shelled Mollusca (Mr. J. Cosmo 
Melvill), Nudibranchs (Sir Charles Eliot, K.C.M.G.), Cirripedes (Professor 
A. Gruvel), Isopoda (Rev. T. R. R. Stebbing), Amphipoda (Mr. A. O. 
Walker), Stomatopoda and Prawns (Mr. L. A. Borradaile), Alphzide (Pro- 
fessor H. Coutiére), Crabs (Miss Rathbun), Macrura anomala (Professor 
G. Nobili), Pycnogonida (Professor G. H. Carpenter), Actinogonidiate 
Echinoderms (Professor Jeffrey Bell), Holothurians (Sir Charles Eliot, 
K.C.M.G.), Tunicata (Professor W. A. Herdman), Enteropneusta (Pro 
fessor G. W. Spengel), and Fish (Mr. C. Tate Regan). The Lithothamnia 
have been undertaken by Dr. M. Foslie, and the rest of the Alge by 
Mr. and Mrs. Gepp. 
The pelagic or plankton animals have likewise been sorted out for 
specific determinations, and the following groups arranged for : Medusz 
and Siphonophora (Mr. E. T. Browne), Turbellaria (Mr. F. F. Laidlaw), 
Copepoda (Dr. Morris Wolfenden), Schizopoda (Mr. Holt and Mr. 
Tattersall), Decapoda (Mr. Kempe), Amphipoda (Mr. A. O. Walker), 
Cephalopoda (Dr. W. E. Hoyle), Tunicata (Professor W. A. Herdman), 
Awphioxides (Mr. E. 8. Goodrich), and Fish (Mr. C. Tate Regan). 
So far no arrangements have been made for Spiders and Gammasids 
among land animals, and Polyzoa, Foraminifera, and Brachiopods among 
dredged forms. There are also the following large collections of pelagic 
animals : Chetopoda, Chetognatha, Heteropoda, Pteropoda, Ostracoda, 
and Protozoa. There are in addition about a hundred bottles containing 
material which was collected by nets of 180 meshes to the inch for 
