TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



Page. 



Preface 1 



List of charts 4 



List of tlie dredging stations of the U. S. Fish Commission, 1871 to 1879 5 



Fish Saivlc, 1880 to 1882 43 



Fish Hawk, 1883 to 1887 56 



Report of the dredging stations of the Albatross for 1883 61 



Albatross for 1884 65 



Albatross t'oT ISSo 73 



Albatross fov 1886 81 



Albatross for 1887 (up to November 1).. 84 



List of dredging stations occupied by Coast-Survey steamers, 1867 to 1880 85 



List of dredging stations of the Challenger in the Atlantic, 1872-76 101 



Travailleur in 1880 and 1881 104 



Travaillenr in 1882 107 



Talisman in. 1883 108 



^flsM«(y/o?^ in 1881 114 



Norwegian North Atlantic expeditious, 1876-78 115 

 Swedish expeditions of Nordcnskjold, etc., 



1875, 1876,1878-79 116 



Danish Arctic expedition 1882-'83 120 



British steamer Lightning, 1868 124 



British steamer Porcupine, 1869 124 



British steamer Porcujnne, 1870 126 



Notice of dredgings of the British steamer Shearwater, 1871 123 



List of dredging stations of the British steamer Valorous, 1875 128 



British steamer Knight Errant, 1880 129 



British steamer Triton 129 



Notice of dredgings of the Swedish frigate Josephine, 1869 130 



Classified list of deep-water dredgings of the U- S. Fish Commission north of 



the Bahamas 130 



Serial temperatures taken by the U. S. Fish Commission steamers Speedwell 



and Albatross, 1877-'85 133 



Record of speed of fis'e trawlings and soundings by the Albatross, July, 1883. .. 144 



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