X PREFACE 



The third part, it must be frankly confessed, is of 

 no interest but to students of marine zoology. It 

 contains lists of the Investigator deep-sea dredging- 

 stations, and of Investigator literature, of which it is 

 desirable, and — for the reason above suggested — now 

 specially appropriate to have a permanent record in a 

 convenient form. Fortunately, or unfortunately, it is 

 short. 



I have elsewhere expressed the debt that I owe to 

 Rear- Admiral Sir John Hext, R.N., K.C.I.E., formerly 

 Director of the Royal Indian Marine, for the generous 

 support that he always gave to the work of which this 

 small volume is one of the by-products ; and I have 

 here to record my sincere acknowledgments to the 

 present Director, Captain W. S. Goodridge, R.N., 

 CLE., for kindly giving me permission to use some 

 of the excellent drawings of the artist to the Marine 

 Survey, Babu Shib Chunder Mondul, and his prede- 

 cessor Babu Abhoya Charn Chowdry. I am also under 

 multifarious obligations to my successors, Dr A. R. S. 

 Anderson and Dr A. F. M'Ardle. 



If, in conclusion, I explain that, although most of 

 the personal experiences herein recorded are more than 

 ten years old, the work of which they form a part is 

 still in active progress, I trust I shall escape the charge, 

 in these days of rapid development, of being in rear of 

 the times. 



