b " THETIS SCIENTIFIC RESULTS. 



soundings were taken. On April 4th, while off Twofold Bay 

 (Station 163a.) ti*awlings were made in 120-150 fathoms with very- 

 satisfactory results.* Of this haul Prof. H. N. Moseley wrote : — 

 " For the first time we procured enough fish to allow of our eating 

 them." The "Challenger" remained at Port Jackson from April 

 6th to June 12th, 1874, and on June 3rd the trawl and dredge 

 were lowered several times in 30-40 fathoms (Station 163b.). 

 During the stay many dredgings were made within the harbour, 

 and the long list of material obtained is published where cited, f 



During the voyage of S.M.S. "Gazelle," 1874-76, numerous 

 specimens were obtained on the east coast of Australia, but there 

 the operations a23pear to have been confined to Queensland waters. 

 The results have not appeared in collected form, but papers on 

 the Madreporaria, I Alcyonaiia,§ Pycnogonida, || Pteropoda,1T 

 Echinoidea,** and Molluscaff have been published. 



From January 23rd to April 15th, 1881, H.M.S. "Alert" was 

 refitting in Sydney Harbour, whence she proceeded northward in 

 continuation of her cruise. Although many dredgings were made 

 in Port Jackson, nothing seems to have been done outside until 

 the Queensland coast was reached. The results have been 

 published in book form. :j: | 



Of local enterprise there is very little to be said, the experiments 

 are not numerous, and except in a few isolated instances no records 

 have been preserved. 



The pioneer of the movement in New South Wales seems to 

 have been Sir William Denison, then Governor of the Colony, and 

 the following account I clip from a letter by Capt. Francis 

 Hickson, R.N., published in the daily press §§ : — 



"In or about the year 1857 a small fishing craft said to hail 

 from the Mauritius arrived in Sydney Harbour with a ti'awl on 

 board, and the man in charge reported that they had netted such 

 a quantity of turbot on the coast near Sydney that their net 

 broke. He could not, however, produce a single specimen of this 

 much-prized fish. 



* Challenger Reports — Summary of Results, i., 1895, p. 546. 

 + Challenger E-eports— /oc. cit., p. 552-574. 



X Monatsb. K. Preus. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1877, p. 625, and 1878, p. 524. 

 § Studer— ?.c., 1878, p. 632. 

 II Bohm— Z.c, 1879, p. 170. 

 IT Pfefifer— /.c, 1879, p. 2.30. 

 ** Studer— ^.c, 1880, p. 861. 



t+ Martens— Conch. Mittheil, ii., 1881, p. 105 ; Sitsb. Ges. Nat. Freunde 

 Berlin, 1881, p. 66. 

 XX Report Zool. Coll. "Alert," 1884. 

 §§ ^^ Sydney Moridnij Herald" 6th March, 1897. 



