SUMMARY OF RESULTS. 337 
Station 108 (Sounding 179), St. Vincent to St. Paul’s Rocks (see Chart 12 and 
Diagram 4). 
August 27, 1873 ; lat. 1 10' N., long. 28° 23' W. 
Temperature of air at noon, 80° '0 ; mean for the day, 77°'6. 
Temperature of water at surface, 78°'0 ; bottom, 36°'8. 
Density at 60° F. at surface, 1 '02641. 
Depth, 1900 fathoms; deposit, Globigerina Ooze, containing 84'90 per cent, of 
carbonate of lime (see Murray and Renard, Deep-Sea Deposits Chall. Exp. ). 
At 6.30 a.m. shortened and furled sails, and got up steam to sound. At 7 a.m. 
sounded in 1900 fathoms. At 8.20 a.m. completed sounding, and made sail. At 2 p.m. 
observed St. Paul’s Rocks to W.S.W. — a group of low rocks, apparently barely 
projecting above the surface of the ocean. The two most prominent rocks are not more 
than between 60 and 70 feet high. Got up steam, and at 2.15 p.m. proceeded under 
steam. At 3.45 p.m. shortened and furled sails, and at 4 p.m. stopped to leeward of 
St. Paul’s Rocks. Lowered cutter and jolly-boat, and sent officers and members of 
civilian scientific staff on shore to examine rocks. At 5 p.m. secured ship with hawser 
to the point on N.E. side of cove, at three-quarter hawser length, the ship’s bow 
being then in 1 04 fathoms. 
Distance at noon from St. Paul’s Rocks, 37 miles. Made good 133 miles. Amount of 
current 39 miles, direction N. 79° W. 
Surface Organisms. — The following species are recorded from the surface at this 
Station : — 
Amphipoda (Stebbing, Zool. pt. 67). 
Phronimella elongata , Claus. 
Lycseopsis paiili, n.sp. 
Platyscelus serratulus, n.n. 
Lycfea pauli, n.sp. 
Moseley writes: “Two large specimens of Albacore, 60 or 70 lbs. in weight, were 
swimming round the ship.” 
The Challenger remained secured to St. Paul’s Rocks from 5 p.m. on August 27 till 
7 a.m. on August 29 (for description of St. Paul’s Rocks, see Narr. Chall. Exp., vol. i. 
pp. 201-209). 
Schizopoda (Sars, Zool. pt, 37). 
Nematoscelis rostrata , n.g., n.sp. 
Station 108 . 
Organisms from 
Surface-Nets. 
At St. Paul’s 
Rocks. 
