Art. IX. Note on some Marine Animals, brought up by Deep- 
sea Dredging, during the Antarctic Voyage of Captain Sir 
James C. Ross, R.N. By Joseph Dalton Hooker, M.D. 
(From the Anna lx oj' Natural History, October, 1846.) 
Having remarked, in the notice given of Mr. Goodsir’s valuable 
labours in the last number of the ‘ Annals of Nat. Hist./ that 
300 fathoms is supposed to be the extreme depth from which 
living animals have been dredged, I think it may interest some 
of your readers to know that Sir James Ross, during the late 
Antarctic Voyage, used the dredge on several occasions with 
considerable success in the same and in much deeper water. 
In latitude 33° 32' S. and long. 167° 40' E., living specimens 
of Hornera frondosa, besides four other Corals, a Dictrupia, two 
Ophiurre, an Annelide, one small Echinus (and the spines of 
another, three inches in length), were all procured in a living 
state from 400 fathoms. 
Off V ictoria Land, between the parallels of 71° and 78° of 
south latitude, the dredge was repeatedly employed ; once with 
great success at 380 fathoms. Generally the contents of the net, 
after dredging at between 200 and 400 fathoms in these latitudes, 
were various Crustacea, as numerous Nymphia, Pycnogona of a 
very large size, and such Arctic genera as Crangon, Alpheus, 
Gammarus and Idotea, the species sometimes resembling very 
closely indeed those that Capt. Ross had met with during the 
North Polar voyages: of Mollusca, the genus Chiton, Boltenia, 
and the remains of both univalve and bivalve shells, of which we 
found no traces on the lands we visited; various Annelides and 
i Serpulce, OphiurtB and Asterice, Alectos, Bicellarioe, an Encrinite 
resembling the Irish one, very many Virgularice and Sponges, 
with Holothurice several inches in length. The pebbles were 
generally covered with Flustrce ; but on one occasion a magnifi¬ 
cent mass of syenite was procured, the edges of which were 
sharp, and the surface clean ; it must have been but recently de¬ 
posited by an iceberg, for the greater proportion of the stones 
around were of trap or basalt of various kinds. 
VOL. III. no. ir. 
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