528 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
a, there was not much opportunity for taking 
soundings. ut twelve were obtained along the coast of Grin- 
nell Land, whills> prove that the hundred-fathom at follows the 
coast at a distance of about fifteen miles in Smit of 
these soundings (ninety fathoms) proved highly inedeseting con- 
taining an organism of lower type than the sito lithe discovered 
by the English oo expedition. It was named Protoba- 
thybius Robeson number of deep-sea “temperateires were 
taken with scenic’ observations on the density of the water. 
Following the coast of West sob eccregr the limits of the Gulf 
Stream were ascertained. Specimens of water from different 
depths were preserved in bottles, bat, unfortunately, lost. 
were careful on ote 
Special attention was devoted to the aurora borealis, which 
occurred frequently, but rarely showed brilliant colors, never 
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and the sicnieent condition of the a mame frequently tested, 
in no instance could the least oat of electricity be detected. 
The amount of precipitation was measured as carefully as the 
violent gales would permit, by means of a rain gauge supplied 
with a funnel. In February, as soon as the sun reappeared, ob- 
he collections of nuvi history are nearly entirely lost. 
With the exception of two small cases containing animals, a 
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represented ‘by raneoee 9 a eco e number of species of in- 
peptic the “eaten of tie pier Silurian limestone, which 
seems to constitute the whole west coast north of Humboldt 
