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cinerea^ Acrissa escliriclitii, Pleurotoma exarata, and Aporrliais 
occidentalis. The Ampliipod Stegoceplialus injiatus was in great 
numbers. The great Mysideis grandis^ Goes, represented the 
Schizopods. 
On 19 th May, after refitting in St John’s, the ship sailed on 
her usual course to the northward and westward, in order to 
proceed up the eastern shore of Davis Straits, and thereafter 
to descend by the western. This course is invariably taken, 
because at this time of year, and for three months after, the 
western coast is ice-bound by the floe ice coming down Davis 
Straits from Smith’s Sound and Lancaster Sound, while, with 
favourable winds, the eastern side is already comparatively clear. 
Ro obstruction from ice was met with until Melville Bay was 
reached on 6th June. 
The first collecting done in Davis Straits was on 30th May, 
Reef-Coal Hill bearing S.E. (magn.) 20 miles, where swabs were 
sent down in 30 fathoms on a rocky bottom, the ship lying to 
with contrary winds. A very large number of Amphipods were 
got here, including such characteristic northern forms as Amatliilla 
sabini, Anonyx nugax, Acantliozone cuspideda, and Stegocep)halus 
injiatus. Large specimens of Boreonymphon rohustum occurred ; 
and among the Mollusca, Tellina calcarea, Astarte borealis^ Natica 
clausa, and My a truncata, var. uddevalensis. Four specimens of 
apparently a species of Felonaia are noteworthy. 
On this date several Walrus were met with, and the skeleton 
of a large male was obtained. In the stomach of the same 
animal a number of Nematode worms were found. 
On 1st June, the ship fast with ice-anchors in Godhavn or 
Lievely Harbour, Disco Island, a surface net was worked from 
the dingey with little result, the harbour being choked with 
ice. The swabs also produced little, although this locality was 
found very productive by the naturalists of the “Valorous” 
Expedition, who had visited it at a later date when clear of ice.. 
Here Inspector Anderson, the Danish overseer of Northern Green- 
land, presented us with four bottles of specimens in spirit. 
Two days later, in the land-ice off Upernavik, a tow-net was 
baited and sunk to the bottom in 50 fathoms water, and brought 
up an enormous mass of a small Amphipod not yet identified. 
