CONTENTS 



CHAP. PAGE 



I Intbodttctory : The Earliest Founders of 



Oceanography ...... 1 



II The Lipe and Work of Edward Forbes, the 



Manx Naturalist (1815-1854) . . .12 



III Sir C. Wyville Thomson and the " CHAiiLENGER " 



Expedition .....,, 37 



rV Sir John Murray, the Pioneer of Modern 



Oceanography ...... 69 



V Louis and Alexander Agassiz and American 



Explorations ...... 99 



VI The Prince of Monaco and the Oceanographic 



Museum . . . . . . .119 



VII Marine Biological Stations fob Research . .134 



VIII Hydbogbaphy . . . . . , .145 



IX Ocean Cuebents : The Gulf Steeam . . .170 



X Submarine Deposits . . . . . .182 



XI CoBAL Reefs and Islands . . . . .201 



XII "Phosphorescence," or Luminescence in the Sea 212 



XIII Plajstkton : Its Nature and Iistvestigation . .231 



XJV Plankton {continued) : lies Variations and its 



Problems ....... 256 



XV Applied Oceanography : Aquiculture — Oyster 



and Mussel Fishebees . . . . .279 



XVI The Sea-Fishebies 293 



XVII Food-Mattebs in the Sea 312 



Appendix i Memobandum on Pboposed National 



Expedition for the Exploeation of the Sea . 331 



Index 337 



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