Observations Conducted on Sailing- Ships 71 



length of warp. It soon fills and forms quite an efficient false 

 anchor. 



I purposely here do not go into great detail about the apparatus 

 necessary on shipboard, or the methods of preserving different animals, 

 as all this will be fully dealt with in the forthcoming handbook of the 

 ' Challenger ' Society. The foregoing remarks are little more than hints 

 of the methods adopted on a sailing-ship, in which the various manipu- 

 lations cannot be controlled so easily as when steam is available, and 

 refer, of course, more particularly to our own methods, which we have 

 had to learn for ourselves. 



