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THE VOYAGE OF H.H.S. CHALLENGER. 
Station 69 . 
AxiMALt FHoM 
Tuawl 
<TAT»OJf 70 . 
Density at 60° F. at surface, 1 '027 12. 
Depth, 2200 fathoms; deposit, Globigerina Ooze. 
At 9.20 a.m. shortened and furled sails, and got up steam to sound and trawl. At 10 
a. m . jiut trawl over, and at 12.30 p.m. sounded in 2200 fathoms. A water-bottle was 
eut down attached to the sounding-line, but it came up empty, the line having fouled 
the slip-valve. At 2 p.m. obtained serial temperatures at intervals of 100 fathoms down 
to 1500 fathoms. At 5.30 p.m. trawl came up, containing a large red Schizopod and 
Pyrosoma. At 5.50 p.m. made all plain sail. 
Di. nance from Fayal at noon, 404 miles. Made good 95 miles. Amount of current 
27 miles, direction N. 19 W. 
The following species are recorded in the Zoological Reports from the trawl at this 
Station : — 
Schizopoda (Sars, Zool. pt. 37). 
G iwiho}jhausia giycts, Willemoes-Suhm, n.g., n.sp. One specimen; part of the 
moulted skin of another specimen was obtained at Station 
157, 1950 fathoms. 
Tunicata (Herdman, Zool. pt. 76). 
Pyi'osoma spinosum, n.sp. Gigantic specimen, of which only pieces were preserved 
(may have been caught near the surface). Obtained also 
at Station 133, 1900 fathoms. 
The above Pyrosoma was 4 feet 2 inches in length and 9 inches in diameter ; a 
wonderfully perfect and beautiful specimen dotted all over with red dots, each dot being 
vi '.-eial nucleus of an individual. It showed phosphorescence at night when irritated, 
and *>ne eould write one’s name on it with the finger. It all broke up into separate 
animals before morning. In each individual was an ovum not yet sufficiently developed 
:•> show the quadripartite embryo. The trawl evidently did not reach the bottom. 
Station 70 (Sounding 134), Bermuda to Azores (see Chart 6 and Diagram 3). 
June 26, 1873 ; lat. 38° 25' N., long. 35° 50' W. 
Temperature of air at noon, 73° - 3 ; mean for the day, 71 T. 
Temperature of water at surface, 70° ‘0. 
Density at GO’ F. at surface, 1 02708. 
Depth, 1675 fathoms; deposit, Globigerina Ooze, containing 833 1 per cent, of 
carbonate of lime (see Murray and Renard, Deep-Sea Deposits Chall. Exp.). 
