INDEX 



ABYSSAL WATER, polar origin of, 



143-146 

 Abysses, 3 

 Adlergrund Lightship, currents at, 



142 



yEgean, 2, 175, 176 

 Aerometer, 71 

 Agassiz, 17, 201 

 Agulhas Current, 197 

 Airy, theory of tides, 119, 130, 201 

 Albatross, 23 

 America, 7 

 Annam, 7 

 Antarctic, 7 

 Antilles Current, 152 

 Appendices, 198, 199 

 Arafura Sea, 79 

 Arago, 129 

 Arctic, 6, 7 



currents', 187 



Assimilation in marine plants, 78 

 Atlantic, 7 



Current, 161-162 



Atlantic deep water currents, 172- 



174 



Atmospheric pressure and ocean 

 currents, 147-148 



Bab-el-Mandeb, 13 



Bacteria, 93 



Bailey, 37 



Baltic Sea, 9, 12 



Banda Sea, 9 



Bass Straits, 8, 10, u 



Benguela Current, 171-172 



Bering Sea, 8, 10, n, 13 



Berryman, 37 



Bibliography, 199-202 



Blake, 23 



Blue mud, 23, 27-28 



Boiling-point of sea-water, 72 



Boliver, 27 



Bosporus, 2, 146, 176 



Bottom-trailers, 185 



Brazil Current, 149, 152, 168-171 



British Isles tidal streams, 127-128 



tides of, 122-126 

 Bunsen, 84 



Cable, 198 

 Cabot Current, 166 

 Calanus finmarchicus, 79 

 Californian Current, 195 

 Canal theory of tides, 119 

 Canaries current, 160-161 

 Carbonic acid in sea- water, 9 } 

 Cardigan Bay, 3 

 Caribbean Current, 151 



Sea, 1 1 



Ccratium tripos, 178 

 Chalk, 45 



Challenger Ridge, 18 

 Challenger, s.s., 18, 23, 28, 29, 30, 



32, 33> 34, 38, 39> 40, 4i 42, 43- 44- 



47, 94, 132, 166, 171, 201 

 China Sea, n 

 Chota Nagpore, 5 

 Classification of seas and oceans, 



8-13 



Colour of sea- water, 77 : 8o 

 Columbus, 140, 151, 159 

 Compressibility of sea- water, S2 

 Conductivity, thermal of sea-water, 



81 



Continental shelf, 19 

 Conversion tables, 198-199 

 Cornish, Vaughan, 129 

 Coscinodiscus, 82 

 Current meters, 132-134 

 Current, Agulhas, 197 



Antilles, 152, 157 



Atlantic, 161-162 



Benguela, 171-172 



- Brazil, 149 



Cabot, 166 



Californian, 195 



Canaries, i6o-i<>i 



Caribbean, 151 



- East Greenland, 164-1^5. 



Falkland, 169-171 



203 



