sg 
sal. 34.1 9/00). At this station one specimen of $. maxima was 
found together with some E. hamata and numerous S. elegans by 
a haul with 350 m wire, — In Julianehaab Fjord no chaetognaths 
were found, though in the depth inwaich the net was fishing (300 
m wire, about 200 m below the surface) the salinity was 34 9/40 
(temp. ca. 17.5). 
The time from August 4th to Sept. 25th was occupied exclu- 
sively by bottom-fishery near Julianehaab. — On Sept. 25th—26th 
5 hauls were made in different depths: south of Julianehaab. Chaeto- 
gnaths were only found at stat. 654 (not preserved). Finally, at 
the last station of the expedition, stat. 656, Sept. 29th, "some small 
Sagittas" were found. 
Å summary of the facts mentioned above compared with the 
remarks on the hydrographical conditions will give us the following 
general results. 
In the North Atlantic on both sides of Cape Farewell and in 
the southern part of the Davis Strait chaetognaths may be found 
in the upper water layers, though in small numbers only, and only 
when the salinity is at least about 34 %00; they are therefore 
absent in the neighborhood of the ice, and for the same reason they 
are never found' in the upper water layers of the northern part of 
the Davis Strait. In the deeper strata of the Atlantic as well 
as the Davis Strait the chaetognaths are abundant. The vast 
majority belong to the species Sagilta maxima and Eukrohnia 
hamatla. 
Above the coastal banks, where the cold and comparatively 
brackish water of the polar current reaches the bottom, chaeto- 
gnaths are very rare; not even the neritic and arctic S. elegans 
var, arctica is found in any number worth mentioning within these 
areas, 
Ås to the coastal area, particularly the fjords and gulfs, the 
occurrence of chaetognaths is bound to water with a certain amount 
of salinity. They are therefore absent from fjords to the interior 
Parts of which the salt water of the Davis Strait or Baffin Bay is 
not allowed to pass. In fjords which are in open connection with 
the sea, chaetognaths are often found in great abundance in the 
EGN mg hb iayars, SÅ elegans is particularly -common in this 
area, while E. hamata and, particularly, $. maxima 
