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THE VOYAGE OF H.M.S. CHALLENGER. 
sides, it was seen that landing was practicable, but this was put off until the next day, 
the ship standing to the southward, on the port tack, for the Great Detached Reef, 
anchoring there at 3.30 P.M., with the northwest point of the reef N. by E., distant half a 
mil e, the depth being 20 fathoms. 
The Macrura. — Mr. C. Spence Bate, F.R.S., who is preparing a Report on the 
Pig. 181 . — Willemcesia leplodadyla, Sulim; male, natural size. From 1900 fathoms, North Atlantic. 
Macrurous Crustaceans, writes : — “ Although several expeditions have . recently explored 
the depths of the ocean, in special localities, the Challenger Expedition appears to have 
