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Station 7. Lat. 18° 19' N., long. 134' 57' W. Very poor haul. Small 

 Phy.salia; small blue and black Copepods ; Globigeriuaj ; young flying-fish, 

 and young of other pelagic fishes ; fragments of Pyrosoma. 



At 8 p. M., made a very successful haul in lat. 17^32' N., long. 135° 40' W., 

 on the same date as at Station 7. Small transparent Taonius, Copepods, 

 Euphausi*, Sergestes, embryos of Hyperia, Atlanta, and Styliola, Alcyope, 

 Porpita, Halobates, bells of Diphyes and of Agalma, Crystalloides, Sagitta, 

 very large species, Firoloides, 2 species of Salpa3, Collozoum. We collected 

 in great abundance all the species we obtained in the morning at Station 7, 

 from 150 fathoms, and then to the surface. 



Station 12. Lat. 12' 07' N., long. 137 18' W. This haul contained Col- 

 lozoum, and a few Globigerina; ; small blue, yellow, and brown Copepods 

 were quite abundant. At 8 p. m. of same day, in lat. 10' 57.6' N., long. 

 137° 35.4' W., made a surface haul. Euphausiaj were very abundant, 

 small phosphorescent fishes, and many other young surface fish, Copepods, 

 three species of Pteropods, Spirialis, Salpa>, three species of Sergestes larvse, 

 small Macrurans, Halobates. This haul being so successful, we made a 

 second one immediately after it, and obtained very little ; the same things 

 were collected, but fewer in number, and the absence of EuphausiiB in this 

 second trial was especially marked. 



Station 13. Lat. 9" 57' N., long. 137° 47' W. In this surface haul we 

 collected practically all the so-called deep-sea types which came up in the 

 " Blake " trawl when dragging from 3088 fathoms to the surface. On the 

 surface Porpitida? were common, as well as flying-fishes; we were evi- 

 dently in the equatorial current. The net contained very many small 

 Sagittiie, and small Copepods, only a few large ones, Atlanta, Hyalea, Spiri- 

 alis, Thysanopoda, Nyctophanes, Nematocelis, Stylocheirus. A very young 

 Pliysalia, the youngest yet observed, was drawn by Dr. Mayer. Young 

 Diphyes. There were no Euphausite in this haul. We made a second 

 surface-haul at the same place and obtained the same things and in ad- 

 dition Halobates. -Same date, surface-haul at 8.30 p.m., lat. 9° 26' N., 

 long. 137° 49' W., very much like that of the previous night, without the 

 surface fishes, only one young fish, Spirialis, Tiedemannia, Cuvieria, Euphau- 

 sia;, Amphipods, Sergestes, Hyperia, large blue Copepods, and a few others, 



