LIST ()F ILLUSTRATIONS, 
PLATES. 
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I. The Albatross 359 
II. Plan of the AUiatross. 3(il 
III. The Cabin.-- 383 
IV. Upi-ior Laboratory - 305 
V. Chart-room. 305 
VI. Lower Laboratory, Port Side... 30” 
VII. Lower Laboratory, Starboard Side 3(i” 
VIII. Ward-room 309 
IX. Wood's Boat-detaohiiig Apparatus 373 
X. Compound Twin-screw Engines 27. 
XI. Midship Section of the Albatross, show- 
ing Baird’s Ash-elevator and Chute. .. 381 
XII. Steam Windlass and Capstan. 385 
XIII. Lamii Fixtures 387 
XIV. Brooke Deep-.sea SoTinding Apparatus. . 391 
XV, The Belknap Sounding Cylinder, No. 3. . 293 
XVI. The Sigsbee Sounding Rod 395 
XVII. May’s Splice 307 
XVIII. The Sir William Thomson Sounding 
Machine, Original Form 311 
XIX. The Sigsbee and Tanner Sounding Ma- 
chines, as installed at the Stern of the 
Albatross 313 
XX. The Negretti & Zamlu-a Deep-sea Ther- 
mometer and Magnaghi Frame ,333 
XXI. The Tannei’ Improved Thermometer 
Case and Sigsbee Clamp, used with the 
Negretti A' Zambra Deep-sea Ther- 
mometer 330 
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XXII. The Miller-Casella Deep-sea Thermom- 
eter 338 
XXIII. The HUgard Ocean Salinometer 336 
XXIV. The Sig.sbee Water Specimen Cup 310 
XXV. The Kidder-Flint Water Bottle 313 
XXVI. Dredging Engine: Aft, Looking For- 
ward _ 314 
XXVII. Dredging Engine: Forward, Looking 
Aft 341 
XXVIII. Reeling Engine and Governor 316 
XXIX. Lead of the Dredge Rope, showing Gov- 
ernor 318 
XXX. Dredging Block 348 
XXXI. The Accmnulator 350 
xxxn. The Tanner Beam Trawl, No. 1 351 
XXXIII. The Tangles ,363 
XXXIV. Fig. 1, Cradle Sieve; Fig. 2, Table Sieve; 
Fig. 3, Strainer 365 
XXXV. The Tanner Improved Dredging Quad- 
rant 365 
XXXVI. The Tanner Intermediate Tow Net, First 
Pattern 368 
XXXVII. The Tanner Intermediate Tow Net, Im- 
lu'ovcd Pattei-n 370 
XXXVIII. The Blish Distance-finder.. 379 
XXXIX. Stations at the Sigsbee Sounding Ma- 
chine, Wire going down .383 
XL. Stations at the Sigsbee Sonuding Ma- 
chine, 5Vire coming up 385 
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1 . Interior of Pilot-house, Steam-steering Engine. 205 
3. Ice-boxes and Cold-room. 300 
3. Longitudinal Elevation of Auxiliary Steei'ing 
Gear 309 
4. Plan View of Auxiliary Steering Gear 370 
5.0. 7,8. Iron Tubes and Carriers for the Tiller 
Ropes 370 
9. Engine of Steam Clatter 371 
10. Herreshoff Steam Cutter 37.3 
11. Heri-eshoff Steam Gig 373 
13. Svodberg’s Marine Governor 270 
13,11,15. Baird’s Pneumatic Indicator. 377 
16,17,18, Biiird’s Pneumatic Indicaitor 378 
10. Circula,tiug Pump 379 
‘30. Boiler Peed and Fii-o Piamp 380 
31. Baird’s Asli-lioisting Engine 381 
23. Baird’s Fresh-water Distilling Apparatus 283 
23. Baird’s Evaporator, No. 3, Type C 283 
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:31. Pressure-regulating Valve 285 
25. Edison No. 3 Dyiiamo and Armington it Sims 
Engine 286 
20. Baird’s Automaitic Steam Ti-ap ,289 
27. Sands’s Cup, Side and Sectional Views ,292 
28. Baillie Sounding Machine 293 
39. The Brooke Doulile-arm Detacher. 398 
30. Rack for Holding Sinkers 303 
31. Spare Sounding Wire, Reel Box, and Copper 
Tank... :I01 
33. Soldering Lamp 306 
:I3. The Tanner Link 307 
31,35,30. Measuring Reel 308 
37. Measuring and Transfei’ring Wii'e 309 
38. Ratchet Crank, Fi’ont and Side Views 310 
39. Belt-tightener. 318 
10, 41, 42. Sigsbee Wire Clamp 318 
43. The Wire Guide 318 
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