58 NATURAL HISTORY OF 



"flottant par un beau jour de calme, en Decembre 1822, a 

 trente lieues au sud de la Terre-des-Etats,* par 53 degres de 

 latitude australe, dans le voisinage du Cap Horn;" and re- 

 marks tbat this genus {Sycozoa) has for its type an aggre- 

 gate " d'animaux bifores, loges dans un corps pyriforme, au 

 plutot imitant une figue," and that the animals thus situated 

 are very small, rounded, oblong, and dilated at their posterior 

 extremity, and arranged in regular vertical rows in the mass. 

 Later on the same day more Coleoptera were taken in the net. 



On the 13th I found some small Crustacea in the towing- 

 net. These consisted of two species of Amphipods and an 

 Entomostracan, to all appearance identical with the Cypridina 

 gibhosa of Dana, described from specimens taken in the 

 Pacific, in lat. 15° 20' S., long. 148° W. This little creature, 

 of which several examples were taken, in general lay at rest 

 at the bottom of the water of the vessel in which it was 

 placed, but, on being disturbed, came up to the surface and 

 swam rapidly about. 



The following day was bright and clear, but the wind, 

 which had again sprung up, was unfortunately not fair, so 

 that we were unable to keep on our course, and tacked west- 

 wards in towards the land ; but towards afternoon it again 

 fell, and there was a nearly dead calm for the rest of the 

 day. Some albatrosses and a tern were the only signs of life 

 to be seen. 



On the 15th we made but little way, as the wind was 

 very uncertain in its direction and continuance, and we were 

 kept much off our course. There was a slight improvement in 

 the state of matters on the 16th. On the evening of that 

 day, while a number of us were on deck, a large mass of 

 floating weed was observed passing the vessel, and, on being 



* Staten Land. 



