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nets to see which was the more efficient and convenient, 

 and also for the purpose of obtaining corroborative evidence 

 as to the distribution of organisms by means of a second 

 and different net used at the same time. Consequently, the 

 results obtained from the two nets cannot be summed, 

 but must be treated separately. The usual plan of 

 working at the off-shore stations was that, after 



3. — Nansen net going down open. 



-Nansen net coming up closed, 



ascertaining the depth, these vertical nets were lowered 

 simultaneously to within a fathom or so of the bottom and 

 were hauled up through the lower ten fathoms of water 

 and then closed by means of the messengers. Thus, the 

 Hensen and Hansen nets brought us up samples of the 

 fauna in the bottom ten fathoms, for comparison with the 



