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The fauna here was very similar to the last station, the same 
Amphipods and Molluscs occurring in numbers, and four more 
specimens of the same Pelonaia. Anonyx niigax was very abundanh 
Additional Molluscs were Buccinum tenue^ Gray, B. finmar- 
cliicum^ and Modiolaria laevigata. A very remarkable elongated 
variety of Balanus crenatus, lately described by Sars, was present 
in company with the ordinary form of the same species. 
Three days later the first polar bear was obtained, though one 
had already been found on the JN’.W. side of Newfoundland during 
the sealing voyage. In the next few days skeletons were prepared 
of the Ivory gull. Fulmar petrel, Buffon’s skua, kittiwake, and 
Briinnich’s guillemot (Little Auk). 
On the 16th, off Cape Franshaw, Beham Martin Mountains 
bearing 20 miles W., no bottom could be found for dredging (only 
400 fathoms of line being available). 
Continuing on a course down the west side of Davis Straits, 
surface-nettings were obtained off Graham Moore’s Mountains and 
Pond’s Inlet, and yielded many forms on which we are not yet 
able to report. 
In Pond’s Inlet the first Narwhals were caught, and skeletons 
of a female and full-grown foetus were obtained, 
Cijamus monodontis and C. nodosus were abundant on the 
Narwhals, clinging to the numerous scars and wounds upon 
their bodies, and round the base of the tusk in the males. C. 
nodosus is said to be limited to the latter situation, but I omitted 
to take note of the fact. 
Tow-netting was continued on the following days in the same 
neighbourhood. 
On the 25th, 35 miles off Cape M‘Culloch, a sunk and baited 
tow-net, with swabs, was lowered in 80 fathoms water. Boreo- 
nymgjlion rohustmn, Cliaetonymphon hirtipes, and Eurycyde hispida^ 
all characteristic Arctic species of Pycnogonida, were taken here. 
A very large Rhynchonella occurred, and a number of Gephyrea, 
including one very curious one, of a very long and attenuated 
form. 
Three days after, a few miles to the southward, the swabs and 
net were again sunk in 90 fathoms. The Boreonymplions that came 
up had a fine supply of young larvae adhering to them. 
