384 
THE VOYAGE OF H.M.S. CHALLENGER. 
Statioji 132 . 
Owixun ran* 
Station 132 (Sounding 215), Bahia to Tristan da Cunha (see Chart 16, and 
Diagrams 5 and 6). 
October 10, 1873 ; lat. 35° 25' S., long. 23° 40' W. 
Temperature of air at noon, 
59 0, 8 ; mean for the day, 51°T. 
Temperature of water : — 
Surface, . 
58-0 
400 fathoms, 
. 40-0 
100 fathoms, 
55-2 
o 
o 
. 38-8 
200 „ . . . 
500 
600 
. 35-0 
300 „ . 
43-8 
Density at 60" F. : — 
Surface, . 
1-02619 
300 fathoms, 
. 1-02552 
100 fathoms, 
1-02623 
400 „ 
. 1-02551 
200 „ . . . 
1-02581 
Bottom, 
. 1-02590 
L>- nth, 2050 fatlioms ; deposit, Globigerina Ooze, containing 85 ’04 per cent, of 
carl »uate of lime (see Murray and Renard, Deep-Sea Deposits Chall. Exp.). 
At 8 a.> ^ot up steam. At 9.30 a.m. shortened sail, proceeded under steam, and 
soui! led in 2050 fathoms. At 1.30 p m. completed serial temperatures at intervals of 
1 00 fathom^ down to 600 fathoms. At 1.45 p.m. made all plain sail, and continued 
under sail for the rest of the day. Flights of birds, chiefly Cape pigeons and albatrosses, 
b.'iran t . » accompany the ship ; several specimens were shot. 
Di-: nee at noon from Tristan da Cunha, 561 miles. Made good 98 miles. Amount 
f current for the last two days 41 miles, direction S. 27° W. 
Surface Organisms. — The following species are recorded from the surface at this 
Station : — 
< "! 1 i oj.a (Brady, Zool. pt. 23). Tunicata (Herdman, Zool. pt. 76). 
.V tphirlna reticulata, n.sp. Appendicularia sp. (?). 
Saphirinella sty lifer a (Lubbock). 
la !.:i«»n tt ■ following are recorded in the note-books : — Peridinium, Foraminifera, 
b.idiul.u-ia, Cydippe, very large specimens of Tomopteris , Calanus , and 
< j‘" <-d. r> trahs { - Limacina injlata ]. From 100 fathoms : — Foraminifera, Radiolaria, 
Hr- i/I! n i‘lbu dnm [ = Saphirinella stylifera] and other Copcpods, Phromina, 
//•//*• " Jt' jraiiiiitr, and many D« enpod larvae in the mcgalopa stage. 
W ■ > oh m writes There were many larvae of Decapoda. Where do they come 
m They .ir< probably not nil larvae of surface animals, though that may be so. 
!' r p- they ■ <>ra*- up from deep water and sink when full grown. It will be necessary 
