Extracts from the Log of the 1904 Cruise 41 



A ' dirty ' night followed this day with a good deal of wind and , 5fl a 1C 

 rain, but at 7 a.m. the position Lat. 47° 02' N., Long. 9° 10' W., was 

 reached, and, heaving to, the net was put down to 1,000 fathoms, and 

 at this depth and at 800 fathoms good hauls were obtained. While 

 the net was down at 600 fathoms, the wind hauled round and put the 

 ship in the trough of the sea, rolling her dreadfully for a short time, 

 with the result that the closing messenger would not go down, owing to 

 a kink in the wire, which had four strands completely broken, and the 

 heavy net was held by only thin strands. Another 54 fathoms of wire 

 had to be cut off. Further hauls were taken at 400, 200, and 100 

 fathoms. 



A strong; wind and rising sea, ending four hours later in a strong gale, Ration 

 west-north-west, with high sea and very heavy squalls, prevented any 

 further work. The bad weather continued throughout September 13, 

 at 9.30 p.m. of which day the Lizard light was abeam. Plymouth was 

 reached on Wednesday, September 14, when the ship was brought 

 to anchor, and the voyage concluded so far as scientific work was 

 concerned. 



On this cruise, lasting from June 20 (the first station) to 

 September 12 (the day the ship was anchored in Plymouth Sound), 

 300 hauls were made with the closing-net, over 650 temperature 

 observations and 150 water samples were collected, besides many 

 hauls of plankton taken with surface-nets and midwater net, and 

 vacuum tubes were filled with sea-water for subsequent analysis. 

 Except when in port in the Azores, at Madeira, and Gibraltar, not a 

 single day passed without some scientific work being accomplished. 



Sixty hauls of plankton were made with the closing- net at or 

 below a depth of 1,000 fathoms, and seventy-six hauls between 500 

 and 1,000 fathoms. If open vertical nets had been employed, probably 

 greater hauls of stuff would have been obtained ; but the object was 

 not to obtain a large amount of material so much as data for deter- 

 mining the vertical distribution of plankton. 



