. 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. 74 THE DEPTHS OF THE SEA. [chap. II. Jeffreys dredged in 1870 several small forms of the HalichondiHdce, with long supporting fibrous beards. From its appearance when brought up Holtenia evidently lives buried in the mud to its upper fringe. F
. 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. 74 THE DEPTHS OF THE SEA. [chap. II. Jeffreys dredged in 1870 several small forms of the HalichondiHdce, with long supporting fibrous beards. From its appearance when brought up Holtenia evidently lives buried in the mud to its upper fringe. Fig. ",. — Tisiphonia CKjaricifornus, Wyville Thumson. Natural size. (No. Vl.) of spicules. When freshly dredged, it is loaded with pale grey semi-fluid sarcode, full of Glohigermce, Triloculince, and other rhizopods, and covered in our northern localities with the little ophiurid Amj^hiura. 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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