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THE VOYAGE OF FT.M.S. CHALLENGER. 
Stations I In. to 
Ila. 
Organisms from 
S RPACK N ETS. 
Stations IIj. an 
I Ik. 
Stai ion II L 
Gre< i. .Mini (Station IIb.); in 280 fathoms, deposit Green Mud (Station He.); in 560 
fathoms, deposit Green Sand, containing 31*81 per cent, of carbonate of lime, bottom 
ni , . rature 52" 0 (Station IId.) ; in 1290 fathoms, deposit Blue Mud, containing 19 per 
■ ••■ut of carbonate of lime (Station He.) ; in 1475 fathoms, deposit Blue Mud, containing 
2650 pfreent. of carbonate of lime, bottom temperature 37°'5 (Station Up.); in 1380 
lh: horns, deposit Blue Mud, containing 28*86 per cent, of carbonate of lime, bottom 
temperature 38 0 (Station llo.) ; and in 1800 fathoms, deposit Blue Mud, containing 
19*88 per cent, of carbonate of lime, bottom temperature 37°'0 (Station IIh.) 
Distai ce at noon from Cape St. Vincent, 81 miles. Made good 21 miles. 
Surface Orga n is m s. — W ill emoes- Sulim writes : — “ Among the surface things were 
some Acanthometra?, the common Copepoda, and a Crustacean larva (Brachyuran).” 
Stations IIj. and IIk. (Soundings 15 to 17), Lisbon to Gibraltar (see Chart 3). 
January 15, 1873 ; lat. 36° 58' 50" N., long. 9° 14' 20" W. 
Temperature of air at noon, 62 
*3 ; mean for the day, 60 c, l. 
Temperature of -water : — 
Surface, .... 
60*0 
125 fathoms, 
56-3 
25 fathoms, 
600 
150 „ ... 
55-3 
50 „ ... 
600 
175 „ ... 
54-8 
75 „ ... 
59-2 
200 „ ... 
54-5 
100 „ ... 
57-5 
At 9.30 a.m. sounded in 1000 fathoms, deposit Green Mud, containing 18*88 percent, 
of earlwmate of lime, bottom temperature 39°*5 (Station IIj.). At noon sounded in 525 
fathoms, deposit Green Sand, bottom temperature 54 c *0 (Station IIk.), and at 12.45 p.m. 
lower d dredge, which came up at 3.45 p.m. At 12.45 p.m. Naturalists went away in a 
boat for surface collecting. 
Station III. 
At 4.45 p.m. sounded in 900 fathoms, deposit Green Sand (Station III.), and put 
over dredge. At 7.45 p.m. commenced heaving in dredge, which came up at 10 p.m. 
full of mud and with a few specimens. 
Position at noon, 12 miles off Cape St. Vincent. Made good 81 miles. Amount of 
current 10 miles, direction W. 
