Corte-Real, Caspar, 26 



Cosmic spherules, 196 



Cothon, artificial basin, 153 



Co-tidal lines, of semi-diurnal tide IV12, 

 220-1 



COa in submarines, 67 



Cousteau, Jacques-Yves, 136-7, 162-4; 

 plunging saucer of, 137, 171 



Covehithe, 229 



Crabs, 89 



Crete, 128, 131, 133, 139 



Crinoids, 199 



Croll, James, 189 



Cronium, the frozen sea, 24 



Cross-staff, 27 



Croton, 146 



Crozet Is., 116 



Crozier, Francis, 47, 49, 52-3 



Crustacea, 76, 77, 88 



Cucumber, sea, 84 



Culbin Sands, Morayshire, 233 



Currents, ocean, 12, 183, 185, 202ff, 

 204-5*; Agulhas, 183, 202-3, 205, 206; 

 Alaska, 204; as opposed to tidal 

 streams, 202; atlases of, 185; basic 

 causes of, 202-3; Benguela, 109, 205; 

 Blagden, Sir C, on, 183, 185; Bospo- 

 rus, 210; Brazil, 204; broad pattern 

 of, 203; Californian, 204; Canary, 203, 

 204; charts of, Maury's, 203; climafe, 

 bearing on, 207, 243; coriolis effect 

 on, 183, 206; densify of water 

 differences as cause of, 203; direction 

 of, influenced by local conditions, 

 207; East Greenland, 204; English 

 Channel, 202; Equatorial Counter 

 current, 204-5, 207; Falkland, 204; 

 fertility of sea, bearing on, 207, 210; 

 fisheries and guano crops, bearing 

 on, 210; fish mortality from, 210; 

 Florida, 204; Franklin, Benjamin, work 

 on, 183, 203; generation of, 185, 188-9; 

 Gibraltar, in Strait of, 188, 242; 

 Guinea, 204; Gulf Stream, 204; hemi- 

 spherical differences in, 203; Irish 

 Sea, 202; Kura Shio, 205, 206; Labra- 

 dor, 107, 204, 207; longshore, 226; 

 measurement of, in normal naviga- 

 tion, 202; Maury, Lieut., U.S.N., work 

 of on, 174, 185, 203; monsoons, effect 

 on, 207; North Atlantic, 204; North 

 Equatorial, 204-5, 206; North Pacific, 

 204-5; Norway, climate of, as affected 

 by, 207; Oya Shio, 205; Pacific Ocean, 

 206; Peru, 204; pressure gradients, 

 206; prevailing, 202; Rennell, Major, 

 work on, 183; rip, 226; rotation of 

 earth, effect of on, 182-3; South 

 Equatorial, 204-5; speeds of, 207 

 stronger on Western shores, 206 

 submarine, measurement of, 211-3 

 Trade Winds, influence of on, 206 

 turbidity, 195; west wind drift, 204-5, 

 207; wind and, 185-8, 202-3, 206-7 

 "Currents of the Atlantic Ocean," 

 Rennell, 1832, 183 



CuRRiE, Ronald I., author, 234-45 



Curtis, T., U.S.N., 73 



Cyprus, 128, 131, 133, 139; copper trade, 



168 

 Cyrene, 126, 131, 139, 154 

 Cythera I., 131, 133, 139 

 Czartoryska, Natalka, 158, 159 



Dakar, 121 



Danube, R., 21, 130, 131 



Dardanelles, 242 



Darwin, Charles, 119 



Davis, J. E., H.M.S. Terror, 52 



Davis Strait, 6, 184 



Deacon, G.E.R., author, 174-89 



Dead Sea, 12, 240; potassium from, 240; 

 productiveness of, 12 



Delaware Bay, 107 



De Long, Lieut. Com. G.W., U.S.N., 57 



Delphi, 139 



Denmark Strait, 6, 71, 184 



Density, of sea water, as guide to sub- 

 marine currents, 211 



Deposition, on sea bed, 13^, 94-5, 195-6 



Deposits, inorganic, 95; organic, 95; 

 pelagic, 95; terrigenous (sands, silts, 

 muds), 95 



Derelicts, tracks of, 189 



Deseado, Cape, 33 



Devon, 230 



Diaz, Barthoiemew, 18 



DImllngton Cliffs, 231 

 Dinoflagellates, 107 

 DIodorus, 20, 22 

 Diole, Philippe, 144, 159 

 Dionysus, herma of, 162 

 "Discovery," expedition, 1925, 211 

 "Discovery," H. M.S., 44-5 

 Discovery Passage, 217 

 Discovery Tablemount, 176 

 "Discovery II," R.R.S., 175 

 .Dittmar, Prof. William, 182 

 Divers, gear and records, 137, 156 

 Diving, 136-7, 156 

 Dnieper, R., 131 

 Dohrn, Anton, naturalist, 114; ..., Dr. 



Peter, (grandson to above), 114 

 Don, R., 25, 131 



Dorians, invasion of Greece by the, 128 

 "Dorothea," Sir John Franklin, 1818, 46 

 Douro, R., 130, 197 

 Dover, 232 



Drake, Sir Francis, 37, 44 

 Drake Strait, 6 

 Drammant, 138 



Dredging techniques, 177, 193 

 Dubrovnik, see Epidaurus 

 Dumont d'Urville, Admiral, 51, 178 

 Duncansby Head, 23, 232 

 Dungeness, 230, 232-3 

 Durocortorium, see Reims 

 Dutch East India Company, 169 



"Eagle," H.M.S., 37 



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