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Porifera. 
Tisiphonia agariciformis. Wyv. Thom. 
Beniera, sp. 
Holtenia (?) (fragment). 
Annelida. 
Serpula, attached to stones. 
Actinia. 
Halcampa clcivus. 
Hydroida. 
Tubularia indivisa. 
Hy droid (?). 
Cephalopoda. 
Ceplialopod. 
Polyzoa. 
Lepralia ( Alysidota ) alderi. 
Bk. 
, , granifera. 
Johnst. 
,, polita. 
Norman. 
, , dutertrei. 
Aud. 
Alccto (, Stomatopora ) granulata. 
Diastopora obelia. 
Hincks. 
Discoporella hispida. 
Hincks. 
Pycnogonida. 
Nymphon. 
Sounding 28. Lat. 60° 2' N., long. 7° 4' W. 4th August 1880. 
Depth, 285 fathoms. Surface temperatures, 56 *5°. Bottom temper- 
ature, 48*0°. 
Blue-brown mud, slightly coherent with many gritty and sandy 
particles. 
Carbonate of calcium 16*29 per cent., consists of Coccoliths, 
Coccospheres, Globigerinas, Orbulinas, Truncatulinas, Miliolinas, 
Pulvinulinas, ISTonioninas, &c, fragments of Echini, Molluscs, Ostra- 
code valves. 
Residue 83*71 per cent., brownish, consists of — 
Minerals [70*00], m. di. *25 mm., with fragments over 1 mm. in 
diameter. Quartz, rounded fragments of sandstone and other rocks, 
magnetite, hornblende, glauconite, and highly altered fragments of 
rocks resembling glauconite. 
Siliceous organisms [2*00] : a few Diatoms and glauconitic casts. 
Fine washings [11-71]; fine mineral particles and argillaceous 
matter. 
Station 1. 27th July. 305 fathoms. Lat. 60° 4' N., long. 7° 
37' W. Bottom temperature, 47*1°. Surface temperature, 54*8°. 
A little bluish mud came up in the sounding tube. 
