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THE VOYAGE OF H.M.S. CHALLENGER. 
Station 175 . 
Am mai/i moM 
TlU Vu 
Station 175 (Sounding 305), Fiji to Raine Island (see Chart 27 and 
Diagram 13). 
August 12, 1874 ; lat. 19° 5 
l' ' S., long. 
177° 10' E. 
Temperature of air at noon, 
73°’8 ; mean for the day, 75°'2. 
Temperature of water 
Surface, .... 
77-5 
600 fathoms, 
38-9 
50 fathoms, . 
71-5 
700 „ 
37-9 
100 „ . . . 
70-8 
800 „ 
37-2 
150 „ . . . 
66-0 
900 „ 
36-8 
200 
60-8 
1000 „ 
36-4 
250 „ . . . 
54-2 
1100 „ 
36-2 
300 „ . . . 
47 0 
1200 „ 
36-0 
400 „ . . . 
42-0 
Bottom, 
36-0 
500 „ . . . 
40-0 
Density at 60’ F. : — 
Surface, 
1-02647 | 
200 fathoms, 
. 1 02647 
100 fathoms, 
1-02664 ! 
Bottom, 
. 1-02633 
Depth, 1350 fathoms; deposit, Globigerina Ooze, containing 4443 per cent, of 
carbonate of lime (see Murray and Renard, Deep-Sea Deposits Chall. Exp.). 
At 6 a.m. shortened and furled sails, and got up steam to sound and trawl. Sounded 
in 1350 fathoms. At 9 a.m. put trawl over. Obtained serial temperatures, and 
samples of water for analysis from 100 and 200 fathoms, and bottom. At 3.20 p.m. 
hove up trawl containing pumice-stones, a few specimens, and a piece of a branch 
of a tree, about 3 feet long, carbonised (?) at the projecting points. Made all 
plain sail. 
Distance at noon from Api Island, New Hebrides, 574 miles. Made good 17 miles. 
Amount of current 9 miles, direction S. 81° W. 
The following species are recorded in the Zoological Reports from the trawl at this 
Station : — 
Siphonophoile (Haeckel, Zool. pt. 77). 
r>>]>h yoji.sis angustata (Esclischoltz). Obtained also at Stations 222 and 265 to 279. 
(.‘rinoidka (Carpenter, Zool. pts. 32 and GO). 
Prntacn nv. s naresiamtx, n.sp. Two fragments ; obtained also at Stations 170, 171, 
210 (?), and 214. 
