Bulletin du Musée Océanographique de Monaco 



No 3o. — i er Avril ic)o5. 



Preliminary Report on the Schizopoda 

 collected by H. S. H. Prince Albert of Monaco 

 during the cruise of the Princesse- Alice in 

 the year 1904. 



By Dr. H. J. HANSEN (Kj0benhavn) 



Having undertaken the study of the Schizopoda collected 

 by H. S. Highness during a long séries of years I was asked 

 to begin with the animais gathered in 1904 in order to give 

 a vievv on the results of that year. For this reason I have 

 written the présent small paper; the future report shall be a 

 detailed account of the animais mentioned here together 

 with the vast collection secured during the preceding years. 



The animais collected in 1904 were taken at 17 stations, 

 but two of thèse (1849 and i85i)are in reality hauls on the 

 same place. One of them (stat. 1639) is situated west of France 

 about at the middle of a straight line between Brest and Cape 

 Finisterre; ail the other stations are situated in a triangle, 

 the three angles of which are Banc de Gorringe (a place west 

 of Gibraltar), the Azores and the Canary Islands. Only a few 

 of the animais, viz. those from stat. 1894, were taken at the 

 surface; ail other spécimens have been captured with the « filet 

 à grande ouverture » in depths varying between 490 and 

 5ooo meters upwards to the surface. In order to facilitate the 

 use of this paper and avoid unnecessary statements as to 

 latitude, longitude and depth for each station in the en urne- 

 rations of the localities for the forms, I insert below a list 

 of the seventeen stations with full informance on position 

 and depth. 



