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2, Deep Sea Exploration on board “ The Challenger.” —Nature 
of July 24 and 31 contains No. IV and V of letters from Wyville 
Thomson. A sounding on the 15th of March of 450 fathoms, off 
to the Astacus family, totally destitute of eyes, one named Asiacus 
zeleucus nearly 5 inches long. Leaving St. Thomas on the 24th of 
o d mor 
the little Crinoid, Rhézocrinus Lofotensis and the sea-ure 
Salenia varispina, besides many corals, the most of which were 
species described by Pourtales, and the sponge Hyalonema toxeris 
(new) resembling the HZ. Lusitanicwm and H. Sieboldi in general 
appearance and the arrangement of its parts. i 5 
Ma nearly 90 miles south of St. Thomas, in lat. 19 
41’ N., long. 65° 7’ W., they sounded again in 3,875 fathoms. 
The bottom brought up in the tube was reddish, the upper layer 
of it the most so. dr i 
excepting a few small foraminifers of both the caleareous and arena- 
ceous kinds, showing the paucity of life at extreme epths. The 
the caleareous element being nearly wanting. This red clay ex- 
tends for 1,900 miles between the Canaries and the West Indies. 
April 4th, the expedition reached the Bermudas. | 
3. Petroleum of Upper Burmah—This mineral oil is found 
at Yeynangyoung and Pagan. There are at present about one 
oil, which the earth-oil contractors, at present the Lay-my™ —— 
and one Moung Tsanwah, are allowed to purchase. The oil from 
_ Raphtha. It is of a brackish nature, and is better suited for light- 
ing purposes than the Yeynangyoun il. The to al 
earth-oil in Upper Burmah now per hae ee is 6,600,0 coef 
