90 d'urban : on the mollusca of Barents sea. 



On the 17 th and iSth abundance of specimens were obtained in 

 210 and 220 fathoms, and amongst other things brought up were 

 large individuals of a Foraminifer {Triloculina tricarmata.'D' Oxh.), 

 kindly determined for me by the Rev. A. M. Norman. On the 

 22nd of July the schooner was at Vardo in Norway, from whence 

 she sailed North-east till the 27th, when she ran almost due North 

 along the 45 meridian until the ist August. On that day the 

 party encountered the ice in 77° 10' N., but pushed on to 77° 51' 

 N. in 44° 20' E. longitude, where they were stopped by the pack 

 ice. On 31st July, not long before reaching the ice, they dredged 

 in 120 fathoms, obtaining many specimens of Lwia subovata, 

 Jeffreys, of a very large size. The next day, at the very edge of 

 the ice in no fathoms, abundance of animals were brought to the 

 surface, including fishes of the genera Coftus and Agonus, and 

 small flat-fishes. Prawns, Pycnogonids, Echini, Astrophyton and 

 other star-fishes. There are, however, no shells amongst the 

 specimens from this station given me by Mr. Grant. The pack 

 ice was skirted toward the west for ten days, and the gallant little 

 vessel narrowly escaped being beset among the heavy west floes of 

 immense thickness. The course was now changed to the South 

 and East, and on the 20th August the 'Willem Barents' entered 

 the mouth of the narrow Matoshkin Strait, which divides Novaya 

 Zemblia into two islands, remaining there about five days. Whilst 

 here, Mr. Grant picked up a dead specimen of a variety oi Fusiis 

 despeciiis, Linne', described and figured by Middendorff" as a 

 variety of F. antiquus from the White Sea and the coast of 

 Russian Lapland. Proceeding northwards along the west coast 

 of Novaya Zemblia, on 3rd September the vessel was ofi" Cape 

 Troost of Barents, and Mr. Grant collected some obscure fossils 

 in Slates and Quartzites at both Penkratjew Island and Cape 

 Troost. The explorers next steered North again, meeting the 

 pack ice once more on 7th September, in latitude 78° 17' 7" N., 

 and longitude 55° K, being then just 100 miles from Franz 



J.C, ii., Mar., 1879 



