NORMAN : ON THE MOLLUSCA OF BERGEN FIORDS. 1 3 



it has yet received. I was told that the submerged sides of its 

 southern precipices are one of the chief locahties for the mag- 

 nificent Actinozoa belonging to the genera Faragorgta, Murtcea, 

 LopJiophelia, &c., for which the Bergen district is so famous. Of 

 some of them I found fragments but did not succeed in procuring 

 fine specimens; but the shelving submerged cliffs gave many very 

 fine sponges, Geodia, Fhakellia, and other genera, together with 

 not a few forms which are unknown to me and believed to be 

 undescribed; for a further account of this ground I would refer 

 to what will be found further on under Argiope cisteUida, and to 

 the v/ell filled up column of Station 23. The central portion of 

 Kors Fiord towards its mouth has a depth of 200-300 fathoms. 

 Higher up the chart marks "338 fathoms without bottom." Near 

 this place I attempted to dredge. Seven hundred and fifty 

 fathoms of line were let out, but I was unable to work the dredge. 

 It certainly had reached at the bottom, though it seemed from the 

 strain upon the line as it was run out as if it had only just reached 

 it, and when hauled up was empty. Whether this arose from the 

 gi-eatness of the depth, or whether there was a strong under 

 current which lifted it off the ground, I am unable to say. The 

 sea was not, on any subsequent occasion, sufficiently calm to allow 

 of my again attempting this great depth in our small boat. In 200 

 fathoms the bottom is fine mud not unlike in character to that of 

 Oster Fiord, and the general facies of the fauna is very much the 

 same, but here were the sponges Trichostemma heinispheriacm, 

 Wyvillethomsonia IVailichii, P. Wright, the Echinoderms EcJiino- 

 cucuinis typica, Echinus Norvegicus, Schizasier fragilis^ Archaster 

 tenuispinus^ Amphiura Chiajii and Norvegica, OpJiioglypha carnea, 

 &c. The mollusca are not so rich as in Oster Fiord, but among 

 them are some which were not met with in that Fiord, e.g., 

 Limopsis minuta, Denialium agile, Cadulus subfusiforniis, Nafica 

 affinis, Pleurotoiiia carinata. 



The following is a list of the Dredging Stations and localities 



