420 Scientific Intelligence. 
until it was recollected that, while the samples of surface water 
had been generally taken up from the bow of the vessel, they had 
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perpetual calm would be as fatal to their continued existence, as 
the forcible stoppage of all respiratory movement would be to our 
own. And thus universal stagnation would become universal 
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that other maritime powers are strongly interested in the 
survey, physical and biological, of the North ‘Atlantic should 
divided between the two countries; so that British and American 
explorers, prosecuting in a spirit of generous rivalry labors most 
important to the science of the future, might meet and shake hands 
on the mid-ocean. 
succeeded in coll in . 
to be a secretion of the salivary gland. A few months later, this 
saliva was analyzed by hig. 6 ors 
free su uric acid. es 
_, Shortly after, MM. Quoy and Gaimard, having discovered in 
the genus Cassis, a gland er gee 
ested that possibly these is also a similar ful 
means of defense, but also to aid them in 
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