. The depths of the sea; an account of the general results of the dredging cruises of SS. 'Porcupine' and 'Lightning' during the summers of 1868, 1869 and 1870, under the scientific direction of Dr. Carpenter, J. Gwyn Jeffreys, and Dr. Wyville Thomson. Porcupine (Ship); Lightning (Ship); Ocean; Marine animals; Deep-sea temperature; Marine sediments. 432 THE DEPTHS OF THE SEA. [cifAP. IX. Lopholielia prolifera, Pallas (Fig. 30, p. 169). —Many varieties ; abundant at depths from 150 to 500 fathoms all along the west coasts of Scot- land and Ireland, at temperatures varying from 0" to 1
. The depths of the sea; an account of the general results of the dredging cruises of SS. 'Porcupine' and 'Lightning' during the summers of 1868, 1869 and 1870, under the scientific direction of Dr. Carpenter, J. Gwyn Jeffreys, and Dr. Wyville Thomson. Porcupine (Ship); Lightning (Ship); Ocean; Marine animals; Deep-sea temperature; Marine sediments. 432 THE DEPTHS OF THE SEA. [cifAP. IX. Lopholielia prolifera, Pallas (Fig. 30, p. 169). —Many varieties ; abundant at depths from 150 to 500 fathoms all along the west coasts of Scot- land and Ireland, at temperatures varying from 0" to 10° C. In some places,—as, for example, at Station 51, between Scotland and Pseroe, and Station 15, between the west "coast of Ireland and the Porcupine Bank,—there seem to be regular banks of it, the dredge coming up loaded with fragments, living and dead. Pive allied species of tlie genus AmpMhella oc- curred more Fig. 68.—Flabellum distinctuvi. Twice tlio natural size. (No. 28, 1870 ) Allopora oculina, Ehrenberg, a very beautiful form, of which a few specimens were procured in the ' cold area,' at depths a little over 300 fathoms. Thecopsammia sociaUs, Pourtales (Pig. 69), a form closely allied to Balanophyllia, and resembling some crag species. It had been previously dredged by Count Pourtales in the Gulf of Plorida. Theco- psammia is tolerably common in deep water in the ' cold area,' growing in patches, five or six examples sometimes coming up on one Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Thomson, C. Wyville (Charles Wyville), Sir, 1830-1882; Carpenter, William Benjamin, 1813-1885; Jeffreys, John Gwyn, 1809-1885. London, Macmillan and co.
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