SUMMARY OF RESULTS. 1049 
Density at 60° F. : — 
Surface, 
. 1-02650 
300 fathoms. 
. 1-02585 
25 fathoms, 
. 1-02621 
400 „ 
. 1-02557 
50 „ . . 
. 1-02621 
800 
. 1-02557 
100 „ . . 
. 1-02615 
2600 (?) „ 
. 1-02561 
200 „ . . 
. 1-02575 
Bottom, 
. 1-02636 
Depth, 2600 fathoms ; 
deposit, Radiolarian Ooze, containing 10 ’19 per cent, of 
carbonate of lime (see Murray and Renard, Deep-Sea Deposits Chall. Exp.). 
Station 272. 
At 4.30 A.M. shortened and furled sails and got up steam to sound. At 5.30 a.m. 
sounded in 2600 fathoms. At 7.30 a.m. put trawl over and veered 3200 fathoms. Took 
serial temperatures down to 1500 fathoms. At 2 p.m. commenced heaving in trawl, 
which came up at 5.40 p.m. with several specimens, a rounded piece of pumice slightly 
impregnated with manganese, and two or three irregular manganese nodules with nuclei 
of pumice. At 6 p.m. made all plain sail. Frigate birds and boatswain birds were seen, 
supposed to be fishing for fiying-fish. 
Venus Point, Tahiti, distant at noon, 846 miles. Made good 88 miles. Amount of 
current 44 miles, direction W. 
The following species are recorded in the Zoological Reports from the trawl at 
Station : — 
Animals from 
Trawl. 
Deep-Sea Keratosa (Haeckel, Zool. pt. 82). 
Psammopemma radiolarium, n.sp. Obtained at no other locality. 
Stannarium alatum, n.g., n.sp. Obtained at no other locality. 
Stannoma'dendroides, n.g., n.sp. Obtained also at Station 271. 
,, coralloides, n.g., n.sp. Obtained also at Station 271. 
The genus Stannorna was obtained only at these two Stations. 
Echinotdea (Agassiz, Zool. pt. 9). 
Phormosoma tenue, n.sp. Obtained also at Stations 237 and 274. 
Pourtalesia rosea, n.sp. Obtained at no other locality. 
Aceste hellidifera, Wyville Thomson, n.g., n.sp. Obtained also at Stations \III. 
and 323. Only species of the genus. 
Annelida (MTntosh, Zool. pt. 34). 
Myriochele pacijica, n.sp. One specimen ; obtained at no other locality. 
Macrura (Spence Bate, Zool. pt. 52). 
Benthesicymus crenatus, n.g., n.sp. One specimen; obtained also at Station 276, 
2350 fathoms. 
