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THE VOYAGE OF II.M.S. CHALLENGER. 
Si -%TK>X 14. 
Animals from 
Tkavu 
Statiok 15. 
Density at GO 0 F. at surface, 1 '02756. 
Depth, 1950 fathoms; deposit, Globigerina Ooze, containing 70'43 per cent, of 
carbonate of lime (see Murray and Kenard, Deep-Sea Deposits Cliall. Exp.). 
At 9 a.v trawl with beam of 22 feet was sent down. At 10 a.m. sounded in 1950 
far In -ms. ,nd sent down slip water-bottle. The latter was embedded in the ooze, a portion 
<«f which Letting in between the cylinder and the lower surface, the water was not re- 
tained in the bottle. A stop-cock water-bottle, which had been attached at 1000 fathoms 
from the bottom, closed in lowering down, and in consequence collapsed in the deep 
..iter. The trawl came up at 5 p.m. containing very few specimens. The beam was 
broken through the centre, and otherwise most singularly twisted and torn by the great 
pressure to which it had been subjected ; the w r ood was compressed, so as to reduce the 
diameter of the beam by half an inch, and the knots projected. 
S mbrero Island distant at noon, 972 miles. Made good 110 miles. Amount of 
current 12 miles, direction S. 37 c W. 
The following species is recorded from the trawl at this Station : — 
Polyzoa (Busk, Zool. pt. 30). 
F n'ciminaria delicatissima, n.sp. For distribution see Station 13. 
In addition to the above, other Polyzoa and a siliceous Sponge are recorded in the 
> linn -book, in which is written : “ Moseley, who has put Sponge and Polyzoa into Canada 
1 .abaci, says there are three species of them, the one being Naresia [ = Kinetoskias~\ cyathus.” 
Station 15 (Sounding 59), Tenerife to Sombrero (see Chart G and Diagram l). 
March 6, 1873 ; lat. 20° 49' N., long. 43 45' W. 
Temperature of air at noon, 72"' *8 ; mean for the day, 7l°'8. 
Temperature of water : — 
O 
Surface, . 
72-5 
100 fathoms, 
665 
200 „ 
603 
300 „ 
63-8 
400 „ 
47-5 
500 „ 
432 
600 „ 
41-6 
700 „ 
407 
800 „ 
40-2 
900 fathoms, . 
39-8 
1000 „ 
39-3 
1100 „ 
38-8 
1200 „ 
38-3 
1300 „ 
37-9 
1400 „ 
37 5 
1500 „ 
37 1 
Bottom, 
36-2 
