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tunity of dredging at other places, except in the harbor of Godhavn, 
and at Cape Faraday, the chief reason being that weather or ice did 
not permit it. Aside from the two above-mentioned stations, I had 
opportunities to dredge only in five places in Inglefield Gulf and 
Murchison Sound. On the map (pages 13, 18). I have marked 
these stations, together with the depths of the sea and the nature 
of the bottom. 
As will appear on examination, I dredged in no water deeper 
than 50-60 fathoms. Therefore, we cannot expect to find true 
deep-sea forms among the collection ; yet the result may be consid- 
ered eminently satisfactory when the limited opportunities for work 
are considered. 
On the whole, Inglefield Gulf must be considered very rich in 
animal life, which is, as I believe, to be accounted for, chiefly, by 
the great variety of the bottom within short distances. Espe- 
cially favorable for highly interesting and numerous forms I found 
the bottom in front of the glaciers. In Murchison Sound I once 
used the little hand-dredge on muddy bottom in twenty-five fathoms 
of water — -just where a river from a recedent glacier was flowing into 
the sea, the water being here for a considerable distance from the 
shore very brackish. I am convinced that the dredging on this occa- 
sion was the most successful one on the expedition, as regards both 
the number of the species and the individuals. In great quantities I 
obtained here four or five species of amphipodSy Mysisy ArcturuSy 
three or four of palcemonids y and some other crustaceans, three or 
four of ophiuridSy Antedoriy probably A. Eschrichtiy sea-stars y some 
gastropods and bivalveSy as Leda and Yoldiay chcetopodSy and other 
specimens not yet worked up. Rocky bottom, mixed with mud or 
sand, also proved to be very good. Among the crustaceans which 
here, as everywhere in the Arctic Sea, play a very important part in 
the animal life, three or four species of crangonids and some palce- 
monids were very numerous ; besides these, amphipods came up in 
great numbers of species and individuals. Fishes were also caught in 
the dredge, mainly slow bottom-fishes, as cottids and blenniids. In 
no less number were dredged on this bottom ascidians and polyzoay 
some characteristic gastropods and bivalves y Strongylocentrotus Droe- 
bachiensiSy ophiurids and Antedon. More rarely occurred Wald- 
heimiay a little cephalopody probably Rossiay two pycnogonidSy a 
caprellidy a few sea-stars y a big lucernaridy some hydroidSy Cyclop- 
teruSy a nemertiny Piscicolay and Myzostoma on Antedon. 
