XII LIST OF ILLUSTKATIONS. 



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Plate XX Vll—Sigsbee's machine for sounding with wire, ringed for reeling in Ill 



XXVIII.— Belttightenor, ratcnet crank, and dredging quadrant 112 



XXIX. — Tanner sounding' machine 112 



XXX —Wire splices 112 



XXXI. —Soldering lamp 112 



XXXII.— iloasiiring reel and blade 112 



.XXXIII.- SigsUee's detacher, used in connection with a modification of Captain Bel- 112 



knap's sounding cylinder, No. 2 112 



XXXIV.— SigsbcMi's water-specimen cup 112 



XXXV. — Improved water-bottle 112 



XXX V I.— Impro.ved water-bottle, sectional elevation 112 



XXXVII.— Improved water-bottle— details 112 



XXXVlII.-N'gretti&Zambra's patent improved frame standard deep-sea thermometer. 112 



XX XIX.- The Tanner improved ihermometer-case, with the Sigijbee clamp, used with 112 



the Negretti & Zanibra deep-sea thermometer 112 



XL — The Miller-Casella deep-sea thermometer 112 



XLI — Hilgard's ocean salinomete 112 



X LI I —The bow of the Albatross, showing the location of the dredging boom and 112 



sounding machines 112 



XLIl I. -Dredging block 112 



XLIV.— Theaccumnlator 112' 



XLV.— Safety hooks 112 



XLVI.— Deep-sea trawlframer - 112 



XLVIL— Beam trawl-frame 112 



XLVIIL— Improved beimi trawl 112 



XHX. — Common dredge, Chester rake dredge, and Blake dredge 112 



L.— Tangle bar 112 



LI. -The tangles 112 



LII. — The cradle sieve, table sieve, and strainer ' 112 



Llir. — Sigsbee'a gravitating trap, for obtaining animal forms from intermedial ocean 112 



depths - 112 



lilV. — Sigsbee's gravitating trap — details - 112 



LV. — Sigsbee's gravitating trap — details ■ 112 



THE ALBATEOSS.* 



Fig. 1. — Ice-house and cold-room 207 



Plate I. — Steering card ,. . ,--.-, 230 



II. — Illustrative eases in navigation (1 and 2) , _. .,... . - — 230 



III. — Illustrative case in navigation (3) , — ,..,..,..,, 230 



EEL FISHING IN THE BALTIC. + 



Fig. 1. — Plan of the " hommor" or fish-pot -^.■... ./ 424 



2.— The same , ....,.„^..„... 424 



Plate I. — Diagram of variations in the eel fisheries in Scania, from. 1815 jio 1880-..-^.. „ 430 



CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF FISH. 



Plate I. — Nuteitive ingredients, water, and refuse in specimens of fish and other food mate- 

 rials as found in the market - 494 



II.— Nutritive ingredients, water, &c., iniiesh, edible portion offish and otheranimal foods. 494 



SPECIMENS OBTAINED BY THE ALBATEOSS.^ 



Plate I. — TJmbellula Bairdii, Umbellula Guntheri 604 



II. — Benthoptilum sertum, Lepidogargia gracilis, Anthomastus granditlorus, 



Gersemia longiflora, Lepidisis caryophyllia 606 



III. — Kophobelemnon tenue, Scleroptilum gracile, Ponnatula aculeata, Baltlcina 



Finmarchica, Lepidisis caryophyllia 608 



IV.-Pennatula (Ptilella) borealis 610 



* In Tanner's Report on the Work of the Albatross. 



Hn Lundberg's Eel Fisheiios. 



Jin Atwater's Keport on the Chsjiical Composition of Fish and Invertebrates 



§ln Verrill's Kesulfs of the AlbatToss Explorations in 1883. 



