SUMMAEY OF RESULTS. 
1077 
Surface Organisms. — The following species are recorded from the surface in the 
neighbourhood of Tahiti : — 
SiPHONOPHOR^ (Haeckel, Zool. pt. 77). 
Diphyopsis angustata (Eschscholtz). 
Amphipoda (Stebbing, Zool. pt. 67). 
Cyclocaris tahitensis, n.g., n.sp. 
Macrura (Spence Bate, Zool. pt. 52). 
Lucifer reynaudii, M. -Edwards. 
Tunicata (Herdman, Zool. pt, 76)» 
Appendicularia sp. (?). 
The tow-nets inside the reefs at Tahiti generally gave a few ordinary oceanic forms, 
along with many larval Ascidians, Zoese, &c., and life generally was much less abundant 
than in the tow-nettings on the outside of the reefs. 
Station 280 (Sounding 425), Tahiti to Valparaiso (see Chart 38 and Diagram 19), 
October 4, 1875 ; lat. 18° 40' S., long. 149° 52' W. 
Temperature of air at noon, 76°’8 ; mean for the day, 75°’5. 
Temperature of water : — 
Surface, . 
77-2 
400 fathoms. 
41-7 
25 fathoms. 
76-9 
500 „ 
40-2 
50 
>> 
76-2 
600 „ 
38-8 
75 
75-0 
700 „ 
37-9 
100 
73-0 
800 „ 
37-2 
125 
)) 
70-0 
900 „ 
36-8 
150 
3 ) 
66-4 
1000 „ 
36-4 
175 
3 ) 
62-5 
1100 „ 
36-2 
200 
33 
58-0 
1200 „ 
36-1 
225 
33 • • 
52-8 
1300 „ 
36-0 
250 
33 
48-1 
1400 „ 
35-9 
275 
33 
46-1 
1500 „ 
35-8 
300 
33 • • 
44-9 
Bottom, 
35-3 
Density at 60° F. : — 
Surface, 
. 1-02707 
300 fathoms. 
. 1-02554 
25 fathoms, 
. 1-02701 
400 „ 
. 1-02548 
50 
33 
. 1-02674 
1550 „ 
. 1-02567 
100 
33 • » 
. 1-02686 
Bottom, 
. 1-02630 
200 
33 
. 1-02612 
Depth, 1940 fathoms; deposit, Globigerina Ooze, containing 53’36 per cent, of 
carbonate of lime (see Murray and Renard, Deep-Sea Deposits Chalk Exp.). 
(summary of results chall. exp. — 1893.) 136 
Tahiti. 
Organisms from 
.Subface-Nets. 
Station 280. 
