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the more remarkable Hydroids and Corals discovered, 

 Murray on the deep-sea deposits and on the surface organisms, 

 von Suhm on some of the Crustacea and their larval forms, 

 and Buchanan on the physics and chemistry of the sea. All 

 these preliminary reports are of interest even now to look 

 over, and must have been far more so forty years ago, when 

 they were published, as they gave the first glimpses of a world 

 of new knowledge which was afterwards elaborated and 

 displayed in the finished series of " Challenger Reports," 

 and has now found its way into text-books and been incor- 

 porated in the fabric of established science. 



The long voyage, a considerable part of it spent in the 

 tropics, cannot but have affected to some extent the health 

 of men not trained to a life at sea. One of the Naturalists, 

 Dr. R. von Willemoes-Suhm, died during the voyage; 

 Sir Wyville Thomson's health broke down soon after his 

 return, and he died early in 1882 ; Professor Moseley died 

 comparatively young in 1891, after some years of ill-health. 

 Sir John Murray, on the other hand, was still in vigorous 

 health at the age of over 72, when he was killed in a motor 

 accident in 1914. Dr. Buchanan, the Chemist to the Expedition, 

 is now the sole survivor of the Civilian Scientific Staff. The 

 members of that -staff were all brilliant men, who all produced 

 most distinguished work. It had been said of Moseley, when 

 a young man, that you had only to put him down on a hillside 

 with a piece of string and an old nail, and in an hour or two 

 he would have discovered some natural object of surpassing 

 interest. During the voyage, in addition to working at the 

 groups of animals, such as Corals, entrusted to his care, he 

 made very notable collections in Botany and Anthropology 

 from the remote and little-known islands that were visited. 

 He also investigated some of the more remarkable of the 

 organisms encountered either on sea or land, such as a pelagic 

 Xemertean and some deep-sea Ascidians. While the 



