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through which only can it he entered. This room extends quite across 

 the ship, is 20 feet fore and aft, 7 feet 10 inches between decks, and is 

 furnished with light and air by six 8-inch air-ports, two 12 inch deck- 

 lights, and the hatch leading above. 



Ample and convenient storage cases and lockers are provided for al- 

 cohol tanks, jars, and specimens in bottles of all sizes ; long work-tables 

 are fitted along each side ; in one after corner is a lead-lined sink with 

 running water ; in the other a photographic dark-room ; and along the 

 bulkhead between the two is the chemical laboratory. Between the 

 beams overhead are slings and hooks for stowing dip-nets, scoop-nets, 

 harpoons, spears, lances, and other fishing appliances. 



A hatch and stairs lead to the store-room below, a closed iron box 

 capable of being isolated from the rest of the ship and filled with steam 

 at short notice in case of fire. Here are stowed alcohol in tanks, nets, 

 sieves, &c, for which suitables lockers have been provided. 



Below this store-room is a small space next the skin of the ship where 

 the sinkers used in sounding are stored. 



WARDROOM (PLATE Xl). 



The whole space from the laboratories aft to the wardroom is occupied 

 by the engines and boilers, bunkers, &c, and will be described in con- 

 nection with them. 



The wardroom is 38 feet in length, the full width of the ship, and 7 

 feet 10 inches in height from deck to deck. It is lighted and ventilated 

 by seven 8-inch air-ports on each side, a skylight 6 by 5 feet overhead, 

 and the stairway leading to the deck above. 



The space on either side of the stairway is occupied by the pantry on 

 one side, and the chief engineer's room on the other ; the latter commu- 

 nicating by a door with the engine-room immediately forward. Abaft 

 these rooms a space 13 feet in length and the whole width of the ship is 

 reserved for an athwartship extension-table, seating, at most, twelve 

 persons. Along the sides of this space are fitted cushioned sofa tran- 

 soms. 



There are four rooms on each side, the starboard after one being fur- 

 nised as a bath-room, the others containing a berth, bureau, washstand, 

 drawers, lockers. &c. Two scuttles in the wardroom floor give access to 

 store-rooms below ; the paymaster's store-room forward, an iron water- 

 tight compartment, and the equipment and navigator's store-room. 



A scuttle in the pantry floor leads to the wardroom store-room, also 

 a water-tight compartment. A door opens into a locker under the stairs. 



The vessel is lighted throughout by electricity ; and artificial ventila- 

 tion is produced by means of an exhaust fan and conduit pipes to every 

 compartment below the main deck. 



