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TRANSACTIONS LIVERPOOL BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



One of our objects throughout this work was to 

 sample the various layers of wafer, as well as to compare 

 neighbouring localities and adjoining dates, and the 

 following diagrammatic, statement of certain of the hauls 

 taken on September 12th will illustrate that part of the 

 plan of the work : — 













SuT 



i«.ce 















. 















-5 



















VI. 



SK.i. 











-10 



















V 



w 



n. 











-zo 





Sh.X. 







III. 



-30 



IV. 









-40 





II. 





-50 



1 















i>0_ 













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Fig. 5, — Diagram to show the hauls taken at one station. 

 I. — VI. represent hauls of the vertical closing nets; W.n. (weight net), 

 Sh. 1 and Sh. 2 (shear net) and the two surface nets represent horizontal 

 or oblique hauls. The numbers 5 to GO indicate depths in fathoms. 



