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a shoal of herrings ; gulls were likewise assisting. At 5 p.m. wo 

 arrived at Aberdeen. 



July 10th, left Aberdeen at 4 a.m., and when about ten miles 

 from port captured some very young crabs and shrimps in the 

 tow-net, and when about twelve miles from land a mackerel 

 midge ; but up to 8.30 a.m. had only secured one small entom- 

 ostracon in eight trials of the net. At 9.15 a.m., when at about 

 twenty miles from shore, and while we were stopping for sound- 

 ings, I took, in a tow-net at about a foot below the surface, a 

 few entomostraca and a mass having somewhat the appearance 

 of a portion of a jellyfish ; but on placing it in spirit it likewise 

 proved to be composed of minute entomostraca. At 10.30 a.m., 

 when about twenty-five miles from shore, an embryo crab was 

 secured. 



Dredge no. 7 was put down at noon for an hour in lat. 57° 17' 

 N., and long. 0° 56' W., in forty-three fathoms water having a 

 surface-temperature of 55°, and 54° at the bottom, which con- 

 sisted of sand and shell, and which was richer than that of No. 1, 

 " consisting of fine sand, a good many pebbles, and fragments of 

 shells. These last were very much worn, and probably never 

 lived where found, but had been washed there. I judge thus 

 because I cannot find a single one in good condition. There 

 were also a few spines of Echini, and two or three common 

 forms of Foraminifera ; but the spines look also much worn, as 

 do also the Foraminifera " (C. L. Jackson). No fish were taken. 

 There were large numbers of the purple heart-urchin, not quite 

 so many of the other forms ; several small but no large star- 

 fishes; a few live and many dead shells, and some annelids. 

 Sponges were rather numerous ; several were the potato sponge, 

 containing hermit crabs, as observed upon previously ; and three 

 beautiful examples of the amphipod Deocamine spinosa. One 

 jellyfish came up in the dredge. 



The stalk-eyed Crustacea consisted of 1 Stenorliynclius tenui- 

 rostris, 1 Elalia Cranchii (male), 3 small Galathece, 2 Caridina 

 varians and several young, 1 Hippolyte sjiinus, 2 H. Thomjpsoni, 

 1 a. Cranchii^ 3 Grangon Allmanni, 1 Pandalus annulicornis, 

 and 8 hermit crabs of the two forms previously adverted to. 



Among the Mollusca were examples of ■Anomia ephippium, L., 

 Fecten tigrinus, Mont., P. opercularis, L., Mytilus phaseoUnus, L., 

 Nucula nucleus, L., N. nitida, S., Lucina lorealis, L., L. Jlexuosa, 

 Forb. & Han., Cardium fasciaium, Mont., C. ecliinatum, L., C. 



