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animals and animal remains from the mud-bueket hauls for quanti- 
tative studies. 
The ‘‘character of bottom’”’ 
given in the present table is that which 
was recorded after a superficial inspection of the contents of the 
dredge on the ship. The results of a more exhaustive examination of 
some of these bottom-samples will be found im Appendix ITI. 
There are included in this table the temperature and salinity 
recorded for the hydrographic station nearest in position to each of 
the dredging stations. This has been done in order that students of 
the dredging collections may be able, without searching, to find the 
approximate physical conditions under which a given organism lived 
It must be borne in mind, however, that in the case of some dredging 
stations the nearest hydrographic station was a mile or more distant. 
