SUMMARY OF RESULTS* 
635 
by jerks, the propelling spouts from the siphon being directed somewhat downwards, so 
that the shell was a little rotated and raised to a slightly greater extent out of the water 
at each jerk. Occasionally when the animal was excited it made a sort of dash, the water 
being spouted out with great violence, so as to cause a strong eddy on the surface. On 
each side of the base of the opercular-like head-fold, the fold of the mantle closing the 
gill-cavity was to be seen rising and falling with a pulsating motion, which was very 
conspicuous. The tentacular-like arms were held extended radially from the head, like 
the tentacles of an Actinian somewhat, but each pair in a constant and different direction. 
One pair was held directly downwards ; those on each side of the eye were held projecting 
obliquely from it forwards and backwards, as if to protect that organ. The smallness 
and fineness of the arms were very striking, as also the very definite direction of each 
pair.” 
The specimen of Chaunax was of a beautiful rose colour, and the tentacular-like 
appendages along the body appeared to mimic closely the red Algse. All the scales had 
been rubbed off the Scopelid when hauling in the trawl. 
Stations 174 to 174© (Soundings 300 to 304), off Kandavu Island (see Chart 30 
and Diagram 12). 
August 3, 1874. 
Temperature of air at noon, 
78°'3 ; mean for the day, 74°'8. 
Temperature of w T ater : — 
Surface, . . . . 
78-0 
350 fathoms, . 
44 '2 
50 fathoms, 
76'8 
400 „ ... 
42-3 
100 „ . . . 
71-0 
450 „ ... 
40-9 
150 „ . . . 
65-2 
500 „ ... 
39-8 
200 „ . . 
59-5 
600 „ ... 
39 '0 
250 „ . . . 
53-7 
Bottom (610 fathoms), 
39-0 
300 „ . . . 
47-8 
At daylight observed Kandavu Island on the starboard beam. At 7.45 a.m. stopped 
off the entrance to Ngaloa Harbour, and despatched surveying boats. Soundings were 
taken: — in 140 fathoms, deposit Coral Mud, containing 86’41 per cent, of carbonate of 
lime (Station 174); in 160 fathoms, deposit Coral Mud (Station 174a) ; in 255 fathoms, 
deposit Coral Mud, containing 8 6 ‘31 per cent, of carbonate of lime (Station 174b) ; in 
610 fathoms, deposit Globigerina Ooze, containing 7 9 '6 5 per cent, of carbonate of lime 
(Station 174c); and in 210 fathoms, deposit Coral Mud, containing 86’97 per cent, of 
carbonate of lime (Station 174d). At the last three Stations trawlings and dredgings 
were taken, the trawl being used in 255 and 610 fathoms, and the dredge in 210 fathoms. 
Stations 173 
and 173 a. 
Stations 174 
to 174d. 
