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to our Club and the Berwick Museum, wherein we already 

 have stowed certain property belonging exclusively to 

 ourselves. I allude to the " Reports of the Cruise of H.M.S. 

 Challenger," which I think my friend Captain Norman, 

 Vice-President of the Museum's Committee and a former 

 President of this Club, and the late Dr Hardy, w^ere mainl}^ 

 instrumental in procuring. The Books are so valuable and 

 possibly still such a terra incognita to some of us, (I grieve 

 to say I myself am one of this category,) that I may give 

 you an epitome of their contents in a Memorandum kindly 

 supplied to me by the Honorary Secretary of the Berwick 

 Museum. Mr Gray writes : — The Reports sent comprise 

 in all 44 volumes. They are entitled "Report on the 

 Scientific results of . the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 

 during the years 1872-76." The Report is divided into 

 the following sections, viz : — 



Narrative — Vol. I., Parts 1 and 2. 



Physics and Chemistry — Vols. 1 and 2. 



Deep Sea Deposits. 



Botany — Vols. 1 and 2. 



Zoology— Vols. 5, G, 7, 8, 9 (in two Parts), 10, 11, 12, 

 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 (in three Parts), 

 19, 20, 21 (in two Parts), 22, 23, 24 

 (in two Parts), 2-5, 26, 27, 28, 29 (in 

 three Parts), 30 (in two Parts), 32. 



Summary of Results — Parts 1 and 2. 

 The whole work contains what are really the latest facts 

 on scientific research in deep sea natural history, as these 

 were ascertained by dredging and by the other operations of 

 the company of Scientists engaged in the expedition of 

 H.M.S. Challenger, specially equipped and commissioned by 

 the Government for the purpose. The results of this under- 

 taking are of great scientific interest and value. Many of 

 them throw entirely new light upon certain branches of 

 enquiry, and in not a few cases change entirely the accepted 

 theories of the mighty deep and its fauna and flora. 



