"On the first trip of the from , which was made July 16 to 19, four successful hauls were made with a large trawl, in 1,346 to 1,735 s, on the 17th and 18th of July, two each day, besides the soundings and temperature determinations, including series of temperatures at various distances from the surface. On this trip about one hundred and five species of s were obtained, not including the and other minute forms. There were among them fourteen species of ; two of s; twenty-two of s; thirty-eight of ; fifteen of ; one of ; ten of ; one of ; two of s."
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Addison Emery Verrill
(February 9, 1839 – December 10, 1926) was an American zoologist (specializing in s), professor of zoology at Yale University, and curator at the . He was elected in 1872 a member of the .
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