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‘brachiopods,* and other forms of deep-sea life were attached to 
‘them in small quantities, showing that they bad not been on 
the bottom very long. ese may have come from some 
wreck, or they may have formed the deck-furnace of some 
whaling vessel and have been thrown overboard on the home- 
ward trip. At any rate, the accident of hitting upon the 
precise locality of such relics is very curious. Otherwise than 
this instance we have rarely found in ORP water any human 
traces except coal cinders from steam 
In all our ten localities between 2000 and 8000 fathoms the 
bottom has been “ globigerina ooze.” We have never met 
with the “red clay” which ought to occur at such depths, 
penning to the observations made on the cruise of the Chal- 
nger 
The temperatures observed with the improved thermometers 
now used on the Albatross were pelea 36°°4 and 37°00 F. 
in 2000 to 2600 fathoms. But temperatures essentially the 
same as these were also taken in “1000 to 1500 fathoms, and 
even in 965 fathoms one observation gave 36°8 F. It follows 
from these observations that nearly the minimum temperature 
is reached at about 1000 fathoms in this region 
The zoological results this year are very important. Many 
-additions to the fauna of great depths were made and a large 
proportion of them are mies eg forms. Some of the fishes 
were of great interest. Huge spiny spider-crabs (Lithodes 
Agassizii) over three feet across were taken in 1000 to 1280 
fathoms, and another very large crab (Geryon quinquedens) 
occurred in great abundance in 500 to 1000 fathoms, while in 
a deeper dredgings. Some of these had not been taken 
Many very ronnie Echinoderms have been obtained this 
year ‘a last, in addition to all those enumerated from the same 
region in one of my former papers in this Journal. Amon 
these are several Holothurians, besides the two aye species, 
Benthodytes gigantea and Exphronides cornuta described in m 
last paper, both of age were taken in abundance this year, 
the former in 904 to 2038 fathoms, the latter in 861 to 1735 
fathoms, One 2 wg new forms belongs to the genus Ankero- 
derma. Of Ech we have taken two of the species with 
flexible shells [Phased placenta a P. uranus) in many 
localities and in considerable numbers. P. uranus occurred in 
568 to 1080 fathoms. Some of the soutien are 8 to 9 inches 
* One of these brachiopods, which occurred on the bricks in considerable num- 
-bers, is Atretia gnomon J., which has not been recorded hitherto from off our coast. 
