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158 and the following animals:—one fish, a siphonophore tentacle about 600 fathoms from the end of the cable, arenaceous worm tubes, two species of asteroids, one species of ophiuroid, four species of holothurians, broken bits of echinoids, a medusoid, probably from the surface, two species of fixed stalked colonial cœlenterates, two species of sponges, and some species of foraminifers (Zoological Log of the "Scotia," Edinburgh, 1908).

Besides trawling on the bottom, the Scottish Expedition used other means of catching animals living in Antarctic seas. They followed the excellent practice of the Prince of Monaco by using large baited traps, resembling in principle the common lobster pot or creel, extensively employed by fishermen of Scotland and other countries. These traps consist of a light framework of wood covered with herring-net, with two funnel-shaped entrances placed in suitable positions through which fishes and other creatures swim or crawl into the trap, and being unable to find their way out again are captured. This valuable form of apparatus was first used in the Polar Regions by the author in 1896, in Franz Josef Land, and since that time has been used by many Polar expeditions with success—notably by the Prince of Monaco himself in Spitsbergen Seas; and in the Ross Sea by Hodgson, following the advice of