SUMMARY OF RESULTS. 405 
Density at 60° F, at surface, 1 ’02620; 20 fathoms, 1 '02625; 50 fathoms, 
1-02616. 
Depth, 1250 fathoms ; deposit, Globigerina Ooze, containing 50 ’2 6 per cent, of 
carbonate of lime (see Murray and Eenard, Deep-Sea Deposits Chall. Exp.). 
At 3.15 a.m. stopped engines. At daylight observed land to E.N.E. At 6 a.m. 
shortened and furled sails, and got up steam to sound. At 7 a.m. stopped and sounded 
in 1250 fathoms. At 8 a.m. completed sounding, and proceeded under steam and 
sail, Table Mountain and the mountains surrounding Simon’s Bay in sight. At 
11.30 a.m. obtained, serial temperatures at intervals of 10 fathoms down to 100 fathoms. 
At 12.30 p.m. completed temperatures, and proceeded under sail and steam. Got into 
the warm current (62°’2 F. = 16°’8 C.) about 20 nautical miles S. W. of Cape of Good 
Hope. Altered course as requisite, rounding the Anvil and Bellows Rocks. At 2 p.m. 
rounded Cape of Good Hope, shortened and furled sail. At 3.35 p.m. stopped and came 
to in 9 fathoms ; moored ship. Refused pratique on account of case of yellow fever 
which was reported to have occurred on board the ship at Bahia. 
DiatomacE/E. — The following species of Diatoms were observed by Mr. Comber 
in the deposit from this Station (see also Murray and Renard, Deep-Sea Deposits Chall. 
Exp.): — 
Nitzschia marina , Grunow. 
Grammatophora serpentina, Ehrenberg. 
Coscinodiscics excentricus , Ehrenberg. 
,, concavus, Gregory. 
„ cnruatulus, Grunow. 
„ nodulifer , Janisch. 
„ radiatus, Ehrenberg. 
C&scmcxMscus centralis, Ehrenberg. 
„ elegans, Greville. 
Triceratium grande, Porter. 
„ junctum A. Schmidt. 
Hemidiscus cuneiformis , Wallich. 
Arachnoid iscus ornatus, Ehrenberg. 
Hyalodiscus lee vis, Ehrenberg. 
The Expedition remained at the Cape of Good Hope from October 28 till December 
17, 1873. During the stay Mr. Murray packed up and catalogued all the deep-sea 
collections made during the first year of the cruise. The sixty-four boxes containing 
these collections were addressed to the Hydrographer of the Admiralty, and were landed 
at the dockyard to be forwarded to England. The following species are recorded in the 
Zoological Reports as having been obtained during the stay, principally from Simon's 
Bay and on shore at Sea Point, near Cape Town : — 
Monaxonida (Ridley and Dendy, Zool. pt. 59). 
Esperella simonis , n.sp. Three specimens (Simon’s Bay, 10 to 20 fathoms) ; 
obtained at no other locality. 
(summary of results chall. exp. — 1893.) 
Station 140. 
Organisms from 
the Deposit. 
At Cape of 
Good Hope. 
Animals from 
Cape of Go< >p 
Hope. 
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