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in the deeper strata both E. hamata and S. maxima in such 
quantities that they constituted the bulk of the plankton. 
On May 3ård the course was directed towards the land till the 
ice was met with. In the neighborhood of the ice chaetognaths 
were completely absent from the upper strata where the temp- 
erature and the salinity were low. At some distance from the 
ice three hauls were made at one and the same locality but in 
different depths (stat. 320, 321, and 322). The first haul was a 
surface-water haul (temp. 39%20, sal. 34.54 %/00); no chaetognaths 
were found. By a haul with 600 m wire (temp. 49,55, sal. 34.88 
9/00). E. hamata and S$. maxima were taken in abundance. By 
the last haul (2000 m wire, temp. about 4, sal. 34.9%/00) also S. 
planktonis and E. fowleri were found. 
The ship left the ice which had a far less distribution in 1909 
than the previous year, and went towards the north-west through 
the Davis Strait with a long series of pelagic stations over deep 
water outside the tract Frederikshaab—Sukkertoppen. Chaetognaths 
were taken by almost all these hauls. On May 6th, Tth, and IIlth 
the salinity of 34 %”oo was met with in the depths 27, 75, and 
120 m respectively (comp. p. 22). It is interesting to compare this 
fact with the occurrence of the chaetognaths, the upper limit of 
which was near to the surface at the southernmost stations but 
considerably lower at the northernmost localities (comp. p. 47). 
Within this space of time some interesting deep-water hauls were 
made, by which some specimens of S$£. planktonis and E. fowleri 
were found. At stat. 336 four individuals of S. elegans were taken 
by a haul with 1200 m wire; as to this remarkable faét; see DE 
low p. 34. 
On May 13th the ship arrived at Sukkertoppen whence it con- 
tinued to Holstensborg with bottom-fishery and some pelagic hauls 
outside the banks, particularly in the neighborhood of the "west- 
ice". The deeper hauls brought up chaetognaths in abundance, but 
none have been preserved. By a surface-water haul near Holstens- 
borg (stat. 386, May 28th) "a few small Sagittas”", probably $. 
elegans, were taken. During the following days fishery-investigations 
were carried out on Store Hellefiskebanke: the pelagic hauls at 
this locality did not bring up one single chaetognath, while a 
number of hauls over deep water outside the Lille Hellefiskebanke 
