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s • '• Depth, 2300 fathoms; deposit, Globigerina Ooze, containing 5777 per cent, of 
carbonate of lime (see Murray and Renard, Deep-Sea Deposits Cliall. Exp.). 
At 5.30 a.m. got up steam, and sounded in 2300 fathoms. Being too far westward 
of Station 3, at 8 a.m. steamed about 22 miles east. Obtained sample of bottom water 
for analysis. A thermometer was broken by pressure. 
•*' f ati* >v 87. Station 87. 
At 12.20 p.m. stopped and put dredge over, veering 2000 fathoms. At 2 p.m. 
Mjuii<lcd in 1G75 fathoms. Imbedded in the sounding-lead were found fragments of coral 
coated with manganese, similar to that brought up by the dredge on nearly the same spot 
on a former occasion. At 5.15 p.m. hove up dredge, containing a few branches of the 
same coral and a few specimens. At 5.20 p.m. made all plain sail. 
Distance at noon from St. Vincent, Cape Verdes, 600 miles. Made good 77 miles. 
Amount of current 17 miles, direction S. 64° W. 
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iJKKtIGE. 
The following species are recorded in the Zoological Reports from the dredge at this 
Station : — 
Ophiuroidea (Lyman, Zool. pt. 14). 
Ophioimisiurn pulchellum, Wyville Thomson, n.sp. Obtained also at Stations 122 
and 142, 350 and 150 fathoms. 
Ophiomitra carduus, n.sp. Obtained at no other locality. 
Macrura (Spence Bate, Zool. pt. 52). 
J'ryoneicus csecus, n.g., n.sp. One specimen ; obtained at no other locality. Only 
species of the genus. [Stated in error to have been taken 
at Station VII v., 1620 fathoms.] 
Acanthephyra purpurea , M. -Edwards. One specimen ; obtained also at Stations 
40 and 354. 
Hymenodora mollicutis, n.sp. One specimen; obtained also at Stations 104, 133, 
156, 157, and 318, 1675 to 2500 fathoms. 
Polyzoa (Busk, Zool. pt. 30). 
A'< Ihn simplex. Busk. Two specimens ; obtained at no other locality by the 
Challenger. 
Ih< Station-book records also: — Several pieces of Gorgonoid Coral coated with 
manganese. 
