CRUISE OF THE 'SILVER BELLE' IN JULY AND 

 AUGUST, 1907. 



Fishes. 



By E. W. L. Hoi/r and L. W. Byrne. 



The cruise is divisible into two sections. In the last half of July the 

 ship ran from Scalloway about north-west to the 100-fathom line, 

 and thence proceeded on a zigzag course in a general south-westerly 

 direction, fishing and taking physical observations at sixteen stations, 

 at soundings ranging from 107 to 550 fathoms, until she came north 

 of the Butt of Lewis. 



The next section of the cruise occupied the first seventeen days 

 of August, and comprised six stations (17 to 22), at soundings of 

 144 to 385 fathoms, between 58° and 59° N. and 8° and 9° W., thus 

 continuing the first section to the south-west, at an interval of about 

 a degree of longitude, and on the farther side of the Wyville- 

 Thomson ridge. A single station (23) was taken in shallow water 

 (72 fathoms), west of the Butt of Lewis, in the last week of August. 

 Dr. Wolfenden's original design was to link up the numerous faunistic 

 observations which have been made in and about the Faeroe Channel 

 with those of the Irish coast, where the Atlantic slope has been pretty 

 thoroughly explored, down to 500 fathoms, from about 55° N. south- 

 wards. Incidentally it was intended to make a thorough exploration 

 of the grounds on which the Micliael Sars in 1902 made a few hauls 

 with most interesting results. The weather appears to have been 

 about as bad as possible, and to have interfered greatly with the 

 efficiency of such operations as were possible, with the result that fish 

 were taken at only seven of the twenty-three stations. 



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