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observations, as shown in the following complete list of the members 
of the expedition : 
“A, Oficial Members.— Prof. Carl Chun, leader; Prof. W. 
Schimper (Bonn), botanist; Dr. Karl Apstein (Kiel), zoologist; Dr. 
Ernst Vanhöffen (Kiel), zoologist; Dr. Fritz Braem (Breslau), zool- 
ogist; Dr. Gerhard Schott (Hamburg Seewarte), oceanographer ; Dr. 
Paul F. Schmidt (Leipzig), chemist; Officer Sachse (Hamburg- 
American Line), navigator; Dr. M. Bachmann (Breslau), physician 
and bacteriologist. 
“B. Non-Oficial Members. — Dr. August Brauer (Marburg), zool- 
ogist; Dr. Otto L. zur Strassen (Leipzig), zoologist; Herr Fr. Winter 
(Frankfort a/M.), scientific draughtsman and photographer. 
“ Each member of the scientific staff receives eight marks per day 
from the government, and their lives are insured for 30,000 marks 
each in case of death. 
“ The ‘Valdivia’ sailed from Hamburg on August 1 last, and is 
expected to be absent about nine months. The route to be followed 
may be divided into three portions: (1) From Hamburg round the 
north of Scotland to the Canary Islands, past the Cape Verde Islands, 
touching at the mouths of the Kameruns and Congo Rivers and 
Walfisch Bay, to Cape Town; (2) from the Cape of Good Hope, the 
Agulhas Bank will be examined, then southwards past Prince Edward 
Island to the edge of the antarctic ice, returning northwards through 
the center of the Indian Ocean to the Cocos and Christmas Islands, 
and thence to Padang in Sumatra; (3) from Padang to Ceylon, 
thence calling at the Chagos, Seychelles, and Amirante group of 
islands to Zanzibar, returning home by the way of Sokotra, the Red 
Sea, Suez Canal, and the Mediterranean. 
“On August 4 all the members of the expedition which had sailed 
to Edinburgh visited the ‘ Challenger ’ office there and examined the 
specimens of deep-sea deposits, etc., brought home by the‘ Challenger.’ 
In the evening, after being entertained at dinner by Sir John Murray, 
the expedition sailed for the Faröe Channel and the Canary Islands. 
Preliminary accounts of the first dredgings, trawlings, and tempera- 
ture observations in the North Atlantic had been received in October, 
the expedition having safely arrived at the Cape Verde Islands. The 
expedition was to have reached Cape Town in November.” 
