XII. On dredgings and deep-sea soundings in the South At­lantic, in a letter to Admiral Richards, C. B., F. R. S. By Prof. Wyville Thomson, LL. D., F. R. S., Director of the civilian staff on board H. M. S. ‘Challenger.'

• Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Royal Society 1874
• Subjects: Kerguelen; Kerguelen Island; Norway; Marion Island; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspl.1873.0080; https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rspl.1873.0080

Dear Admiral Richards,—1 have the pleasure of informing you that, during our voyage from the Cape of Good Hope to Australia, all the necessary observations in matters bearing upon my department have been made most successfully at nineteen principal stations, suitably distributed over the track, and including Marion Island, the neighbour­ hood of the Crozets, Kerguelen Island, and the Heard group. After leaving the Cape several dredgings were taken a little to the southward, at depths from 100 to 150 fathoms. Animal life was very abundant; and the result was remarkable in this respect, that the general character of the fauna was very similar to that of the North Atlantic, many of the species even being identical with those on the coasts of Great Britain and Norway. The first day’s dredging was in 1900 fathoms, 125 miles to the south-westward of Cape Agulhas; it was not very successful.