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THE VOYAGE OF H.M.S. CHALLENGER. 
s ' 17 I.iinx llihrauch and other shells, Heteropoda (Atlanta), Appendicularia. One thick- 
du lied Orbulina was quite filled with sarcode of a yellowish colour, in which were many 
greenish and reddish coloured cells, like the yellow bodies in Radiolaria. The sarcode of 
1 1 ie ( rlobigeriiur had, in addition to yellow granular matter, many cells of a greenish 
tinge, rounder and smaller than those in Orbulina, as well as many orange coloured oil- 
glnbules. The ondochrome of Pyrocystis and Etlimodiscus had a yellowish or greenish 
tinge, and was very similar in both species. 
August 22, 23, 1874. 
< )n these dates stormy petrels and larger birds like puffins were seen, while boatswain 
birds hovered over the ship at a great height, and a flock of sea-birds about the size 
of terns were noticed at some distance from the ship. On the evening of August 22 
a specimen of Sula ptiscator alighted on the cutter and was caught ; in its stomach was 
found a specimen of Ommastrephcs oualaniensis (see Hoyle, Zool. pt. 44). 
Surface Organisms. — The following species are recorded from the surface on 
August 23 : — 
Amthipoda (Stebbing, Zool. pt. 67). 
Scind comigera (M.-Edwards). 
Macrura (Spence Bate, Zool. pt. 52). 
Sergestes rinkii, Kroyer. 
Oodeopus serratus, n.g., n.sp. 
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-TATI -, i-c Station 180 (Sounding 310), Fiji to Raine Island (see Chart 27 and Diagram 13). 
August 24, 1874 ; lat. 14° 7' S., long. 153° 43' E. 
Temperature of air at noon, 77 J ‘8 ; mean for the day, 7 6° '6. 
Temperature of water : 
Surface, . 
80-0 
50 fathoms, 
75-4 
100 „ 
72-8 
150 „ 
618 
200 „ 
53-5 
250 „ 
48-5 
300 „ 
45-5 
350 „ 
43-2 
400 „ 
41-5 
450 „ 
405 
500 „ 
0 
3D -6 
600 fathoms, 
38-8 
700 „ 
38-3 
800 „ 
37-8 
000 „ 
37-3 
1000 „ 
368 
1100 „ 
36-4 
1200 „ 
36-0 
1300 „ 
36-0 
1400 „ 
36-0 
1500 „ 
360 
Bottom, 
36-0 
