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THE YOYAGE OF H.M.S. CHALLENGER. 
Japan. 
On the 13th April the anchor was weighed early in the forenoon, and the vessel 
proceeded out of Yokohama Bay for the purpose of swinging ship to ascertain the 
errors of the compass. The position of the ship at noon was Treaty Point W.N.W. 
one mile. At 8.30 p.m. she returned to the anchorage, and on the 26th April proceeded 
to Yokoska Harbour, and the following day was hauled into dock for repairs. On the 
3rd May she was hauled out of the dry dock and returned to the former anchorage off 
Yokohama. 
On the 12th May the Challenger left Yedo Bay for a cruise along the southern coast 
of Japan and into the Inland Sea. Proceeding first round Joka Sima, a day was spent 
in sounding, dredging, and trawling in the bay next west of Yedo, where the celebrated 
Japanese siliceous glass rope Sponges ( Hyal-onema ) are found. A native fisherman 
was taken to point out the best spot, which proved to be Double Hill (on the coast on 
the east side of Yedo Bay) in line with Tree Hill, and a notch in the coast behind 
Ino Sima shut in by that island. The angles were Peaked Rock 28° 10 'k Ino Sima 
82° 40' Tree Hill </> Double Hill (see Sheet 35). The depth was 345 fathoms, and the 
deposit a dark green mud containing a few shells of pelagic and other Foraminifera, 
fragments of Molluscs, Echinoderms, Polyzoa, Sponge spicules, Radiolarians, and Diatoms. 
There were a good many glauconitic casts of the calcareous shells. 
The ship was surrounded by native fishing boats, and Mr. Murray visited a number of 
these. They were fishing with long lines on which were attached iron hooks without 
barbs, about 6 feet apart. On the lines which were being hauled in were Pennatulids, 
Hyalonemas, Astropectens, Hydrozoa, and Macrurids and other deep-sea fish. It is 
worthy of remark that while several Hyalonemas were procured from the native lines 
none were obtained in the dredgings and trawlings from the ship, although most of the 
other species were captured and many others in addition. The whole fauna had a 
marked deep-sea character. In the Memoirs already published thirty-two new species 
are described from this locality. 
Dr. A. Gunther has the following interesting remarks on the Fish from this 
Station : — 
‘‘A fact to. which I have repeatedly drawn attention, and again quite recently, 1 viz., 
that there exists the greatest similarity between the marine fauna of Japan and that of 
the Mediterranean, the adjacent parts of the Atlantic, and the West Indies, is fully 
N borne out by the Challenger collections. It is proved not only by a number of species 
absolutely identical in the seas named, but also by a large proportion of representative 
species. The similarity becomes still more obvious when we take into consideration 
species which live at a moderate depth of from 200 to 400 fathoms ; and although I 
1 Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 5, vol. i. p. 485, 1878 ; also Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond. (•Zool.),vol. xii. pp. 100-109, 1874. 
