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BIOLOGY OF THE SEAS OF THE U.S.S.R. 



The second period 



A comprehensive study of the Barents Sea fauna was begun during the pre- 

 sent century and is first of all connected with the work done by the expedition 

 for the Murman scientific fishery survey, organized in 1898 and operating for 

 ten years under the direction first of N. M. Knipovitch and later of L. Breit- 

 fuss. A year later the biological station of the St Petersburg Natural History 

 Society, named the Murman Biological Station, was transferred from the 



Fig. 19. Professor I. I. Mesiacev. 



Solovetsk Islands to the Ekaterininskaya Bay of the Kola Guba. This scienti- 

 fic and industrial expedition made a basic survey of the hydrological conditions 

 of the Barents Sea and of the commercial fish, and the Murman station car- 

 ried out a careful examination of the fauna of the Kola Guba. Like the Sevas- 

 topol station of the Academy of Sciences, the Murman station was the centre 

 of research by Russian and Soviet biologists into marine fauna and flora. 

 It was here that K. Derjugin collected the data for his large monograph on the 

 fauna of the Kola Guba. 



It should be noted that N. M. Knipovitch had a special vessel the Andrey 

 Pervozvanniy built for his Murman expedition, equipped also as a fishing 



