SUMMARY OF RESULTS. 
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Excluding Protozoa, about a dozen specimens of invertebrates were obtained at 
this Station, belonging to 7 species, of which 4 are new to science, including repre- 
sentative of 1 new genus ; 2 of the new species and the new genus were not obtained 
elsewhere. 
Willemoes-Suhm writes: “In the dredge was a shrimp, probably a Peneid, which 
apparently shows that these animals live on the bottom, for it is improbable that a shrimp 
could penetrate deeply into the mnd during the passage of the dredge through the 
surface water. There was also a transparent, very spiny, blind larva of a Braehyurous 
crab [ = Eryoneicus cxcus], probably answering to the Megalopa-stage, but remarkable, in 
addition to its blindness, for the development of the first pair of cheliferous legs and the 
presence of only one largely developed, and three very slightly developed, pairs of 
pereiopods, though the swimmerettes were normal. Of the internal organs one could see 
a bright-red stomach and, on both sides of it, a yellow liver. The spines were placed in 
rows on the carapace, and also covered the legs and abdomen, but there was no very spiny 
rostrum, which, however, might appear in a subsequent stage. The full-grown crab to 
which this larva belongs is evidently blind, and might bear some resemblance to the 
Pericera - like crab taken on July 10 — Lithodes agassizii], which, however, had a pair of 
well-developed eyes and a rostrum composed of strong spines. This is, as far as I am aware, 
the first instance of a larva of a deep-sea Crustacean being brought up in the dredge. 
A longicorn beetle ( Clytus ) was blown on board, perhaps from Africa. 
Station 88 (Sounding 152), Madeira to Cape Verde Islands (see Chart 6 and 
Diagram 7). 
July 22, 1873 ; lat. 23 c 58' 
N., long. 21° 
18' W. 
Temperature of air at noon, 
7 5° ’3 ; mean 
for the day, 73°‘7. 
Temperature of water : — 
Surface, . 
72-0 
600 fathoms, . 
o 
43-2 
100 fathoms, . 
61-0 
700 „ 
420 
200 „ 
55-4 
800 
41-0 
300 
50-4 
900 
40-1 
400 „ 
468 
1000 „ 
39-3 
500 „ 
44-5 
Bottom, 
36-4 
Density at 60° F. at surface, 1 ‘02755 ; 400 fathoms, 1‘02627 ; bottom, 1 ‘02618. 
Depth, 2300 fathoms ; deposit, Globigerina Ooze, containing 64 38 per cent, of 
carbonate of lime (see Murray and Benard, Deep-Sea Deposits Chall. Exp.). 
At 1.20 p.m. shortened and furled sails, and got up steam to sound. Sounded in 
2300 fathoms. At 3 p.m. took serial temperatures at intervals of 100 fathoms down to 
Station 87. 
Station 88. 
