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THE DEPTHS OF THE SEA. 



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may reach 30 C., at the greatest depths both in the 

 Atlantic and in the Pacific the temperature is not 

 higher than from 2 to 4 C., sometimes falling at 

 great depths to C. I quote from Mr. Prestwich's 

 able presidential address to the Geological Society 

 for the year 1871, a table of the most important of 

 these earlier observations in the Atlantic and the 

 Pacific : l - 



TEMPERATURES OF THE ATLANTIC. 



TEMPERATURES OF THE PACIFIC. 



1 Address delivered at tlie Anniversary Meeting of the Geological 

 Society of London on the 17th of February, 1871, by Joseph Prest- 

 wich, F.R.S. Pp. 36, 37. 



