500 
TILE VOYAGE OF R.M.S. CHALLENGER. 
Station- lft 1. 
Organisms ntoM 
SiRtACB-Nrrs. 
At 2 a.m. observed two icebergs to N. and W. At 8 a.m. shortened sail, and got up 
>team to sound. Numerous icebergs in sight. At 9.10 a.m. proceeded under steam, and 
at 10 a.m. sounded in IsOO fathoms. Obtained a series of temperatures. The carbonic 
a id was determined in bottom water, and amounted to 57 ‘6 milligrammes per litre. 
At il.30 a.m. completed temperature observations, and at 11.40 a.m. made all plain 
sad. At noon 2S icebergs in sight. At 4 p.m. 12 icebergs in sight ; no pack ice. At 
G p.m. 40 icebergs in sight ; no pack ice. At 8 p.m. 37 icebergs in sight. At 10.20 p.m. 
hove to. During the day observed several Cape pigeons, petrels, sooty albatrosses, 
prinns, Mother Carey’s chickens, and terns. Several snow-showers after 10 p.m. 
Distance at noon from Termination Land, 2G0 miles. Made good 61 miles. Amount 
of current 18 miles, direction N. 51 E. 
Surface Organisms. — The following species are recorded from the surface and down 
to 100 fathoms in this locality (February 19 to 21) : — 
Uadiolakia (Haeckel, Zool. pt. 40). 
Tliafassopila cladococcvs, Haeckel. 
JIalionirna < tnt arctic am , Haeckel. 
A mphibrach i uni spongur oides, Haeckel. 
Larnacostupa denclrophora, Haeckel. 
Acanthonia prismatica, Haeckel. 
Porocapsa poronodon , Haeckel. 
Lychnaspis minima, Haeckel. 
&tgosph&ra penicilla, Haeckel. 
Auloscena spectabil is, Haeckel. 
Annelida (MTntosh, Zool. pt. 34). 
Alciopa antarctica, n.sp. 
Copepoda (Brady, Zool. pt. 23). 
Culanus projiinquus, n.sp. 
Rhincalo 'ns gig as, n.sp. 
Pleuromma abdominale (Lubbock). 
Candace truncata, Dana. 
Amphipoda (Stebbing, Zool. pt. 67). 
Ilyperiella dilatata, n.sp. 
Primno antarctica, n.sp. 
Schizopoda (Sars, Zool. pt. 37). 
Euphausia murrayi, n.sp. 
,, superba, Dana. 
Thysanoessa macrura, n.sp. 
Pteropoda (Pelseneer, Zool. pt. 65). 
Limacina australis (Eydoux and 
Souleyet). 
Clio sulcata (Pfeffer). 
In addition, the following are recorded in the note-books: — Diatoms, Globigerina, 
i aria, Diphyt’s, larvae of Chirodota (?) with twelve divided wheels, Sagilta, and 
Cypridina. 
i above -urfaoe organisms were collected by Mr. Murray in a boat, Euphausia 
'g* ■Gi b'-ing especially abundant (the supplementary eyes of which were in the 
evening observed to be phosphorescent). 
