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Dr. J. Gwyn Jeffreys on the 



[June 15_, 



a range of distribution from Norway to the Bay of Biscay, Caught by 

 the tangles was a fine Gorgonian, which Mr. Norman considers a new 

 species of Mojjsea. The bottom-temperature was 34°- 6. Next day we 

 sounded, and dredged in 1100 fathoms. A live specimen of that remark- 

 able Brachiopod Atretia gnomon, besides other Mollusca familiar to me 

 from the 'Porcupine' expeditions {e.g. Nucida reticulata, ^.,Liino]Dsis 

 aurita, A.vinus eumyariiis, and Bentalium candidum, J.), were scienti- 

 fically important captures. 



13. Sounded on the 12th of August in 1350 fathoms ; but no dredg- 

 ing, because the wind was fair. All the pumps were obliged to be kept 

 going day and night. If a small brig had been in the first instance 

 despatched to Disco with a supply of coal for the Polar Expedition w^e 

 need not have entered Waigat Strait, and lost so much time in digging 

 fuel of an inferior quality on an exposed and dangerous coast, nor 

 have thus unnecessarily consumed our ow^n provisions ; and as ballast 

 could have been taken in at Godhavn, the unfortunate accident which 

 crippled the ship might have been avoided. In tbat case the instructions 

 of the Admiralty, in compliance with the request of the Society for 

 scientific investigations, could have been completely and satisfactorily 

 carried out. 



14. Sounded and dredged on the 14th of August in 1750 fathoms, at 

 the entrance of Davis Strait. The dredge brought up nearly 3 cwt. of 

 soft yellowish-brown mud. The Mollusca comprised SipJionodentalium 

 vitreum, S. Lofotense, and several undescribed forms, most of which I 

 had found at less depths in the 'Porcupine' Expedition of 1869. A 

 remarkable new genus of Echinoidea occurred, which I at first took to be 

 a Pourtalesia ; but Mr. Norman will give an account of it, as well as of 

 a Crustacean {Lexicon longirostris) which Dr. Sars described from a 

 fragment procured in the ' Josephine ' Expedition off the Straits of 

 Gibraltar. Dr. M'Intosh has also made out a new genus of Annelids 

 under the name of Tacliytrypane. 



15. "VVe now got into the Atlantic, and on the 16th and 17th of 

 August took soundings in 1660 and 1860 fathoms. On the 19th 

 sounded and dredged in 1450 fathoms. The bottom-temperature was 

 36°'3, being nearly two degrees higher than in 410 fathoms off Godt- 

 haab in Davis Strait. A large stone, as big as a mans head, came 

 up on the w^eights above the dredge, but unfortunately fell off before the 

 weights were brought on board. Let the submarine telegraph companies 

 look to this ! The mud in the dredge contained a great many small 

 stones, to one of which was attached a living and beautiful specimen 

 of Discina Atlantica, There were also a new species of Terehratula (tenerct, 

 J.), fragments ol Atretia gnomon, Amussium {Pleuronectia) lucidum, Lima 

 ovata (a Coralline-Crag and Monte-Mario fossil), Dacrydium vitreum., 

 Leda acuminata, many of the ' Porcupine ' deep-water species (including 

 an undescribed species of the curious genus Fissurisejpta), Malletia excisa 



