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THE VOYAGE OF H.M.S. CHALLENGER. 
SlATION 2. 
Temperature of water 
Surface, . 
670 
50 fathoms, . 
67 0 
100 „ 
62 0 
200 „ 
56-0 
300 „ 
52-1 
400 „ 
48-8 
500 fathoms, 
46-0 
600 „ 
44-2 
700 „ 
42-9 
800 „ 
41-9 
900 „ 
41-0 
Bottom, 
36-8 
Density at 60° F. at surface, 1 ’02739 ; bottom, 1 ’02602. 
Depth, 1945 fathoms; deposit, Globigerina Ooze, containing 64’55 per cent, of 
carbonate of lime (see Murray and Renard, Deep-Sea Deposits Chall. Exp.). 
At 5.15 am. put over dredge, veering 2700 fathoms. At 7 a.m. sounded in 1945 
fathoms. At 8 a.m. the barge went away to obtain a series of temperatures at 
various depths, and returned at 1.30 p.m. At 1.30 p.m. commenced heaving in 
dredge, which came up at 3.30 p.m. half full of Globigerina Ooze. 
Position at noon, about 260 miles west of Cape Bojador ; Sombrero Island distant 
2482 miles. Made good 95 miles. Amount of current 10 miles, direction S. 11° W. 
A ima - n. m The following species is recorded from the dredge at this Station : — 
Dumb. 
Cephalopoda (Hoyle, Zool. pt. 44). 
Mistigoteutliis agassizii, Verrill. Fragments of tentacles; obtained at no other 
locality by the Challenger. Recorded from North Carolina. 
In addition to the above Cephalopod fragment, the dredge contained a mutilated 
spe< men of a worm belonging to the Gephyrea, thus described by Willemoes-Suhm : 
“ The animal shows characters of both the Sipunculacea and the Priapulacea : it has no 
t ntacles (Priapulacea); the anus is near the mouth in the anterior part of the body 
(Sipunculacea) ; and it has no proboscis (Priapulacea). The pharynx is very short, and 
is atta' bed to the walls of the body by four retractores. The pharynx shows six or seven 
folds, being cum posed of prominences covered by ‘ Pflasterepithel,’ and at their ends by 
i < hitinous border. At the entrance of the mouth these papillae with chitinous borders 
! more pointed and stronger; in each are seen some unicellular glands, granular bodies 
.-homing a nucleus and a nucleolus. Owing to the state of the specimen, nothing can be 
said about the rest of the body.” 
1 1 ’ iaminii kka (Brady, Zool. pt. 22). — The ooze was carefully sifted, and was found to 
contain many otolith of fishes and Pteropod shells (see also Murray and Renard, Deep- 
S Deposits Oil, dl. Exp.). The following species of Foraminifera were also observed; 
