1892 - 93 .] Mr Rodger on Arctic Natural History Collections. 163 
miles, tlie swabs were used in 150 fathoms, on rocks. Besides 
the common Boreonymphon and Eurycyde., this haul yielded 
Chaetonymplion hirtipes, and C. macronyx, and an undescribed species 
of Nymplion. A small Astrophyton, a very large Asterias, and a 
specimen of the handsome Decapod Sclerocrangon salebrosus^ Owen, 
were also brought up. But the most remarkable form taken was 
an extraordinary variety of Strongylocentrotus drohacliiensis, with 
enormous pedicellarise, similar to one, as yet undescribed, which 
Canon hTorman tells us he took last year in Finland. 
The swabs were hauled at midnight, and the specimens were 
thrown into two buckets of sea-water. The whole was frozen solid 
when I returned after a few minutes’ absence. With this little 
experience of Arctic weather in late autumn, the work of the 
cruise came to an end. 
[_Note . — The collections of Avhich the above is a preliminary 
account will be duly reported on in course of time. An account 
of the OpjliiuridcCj which we submitted to Mr J. A. Grieg, has been 
already published in the Report of the Bergen Museum for 1892. 
The mollusca have been identified for us by Dr Chaster of South- 
port.— D. W. T.] 
