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Shallow-Water Marine Fauna 1885 Murray

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Shallow-Water Marine Fauna 1885 Murray
"On the deep and shallow-water marine fauna of the Kerguelen Region of
the Great Southern Ocean." MURRAY, John (1841-1914).
& Alex Agassiz.
Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Vol. XXXVIII, Part II (Partial, see below), for the
Session 1894-1895. Edinburgh: Robert Grant & Son, 1896. FIRST EDITION. This is
a separate presentation on animals discovered by the Challenger in the Indian
Ocean. The Report of the Challenger's expedition fell to Murray upon the death
(1882) of Sir Charles Wyville Thomson (1830-1882), Regius Professor of Natural
History at Edinburgh and scientific director of the voyage of circumnavigation
organized by the Royal Society. John Murray of Ontario, Canada, edited the
fifty-volume Report on the scientific results of the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger
during the years 1872-1876 (London, 1880-1895) and was co-author of The depths
of the ocean (London, 1912). These contributions made Murray a founder of
oceanography as a separate science. 4to. 1/2 Maroon leather and Marbled bds
Pages 343-500 only. 8 figs., 1 table, 1 folding color
map. Signed With the Authors Compliments, on a pasted-in slip by Agassiz. Spine missing, bds loose. Good, with a Harvard College Bookplate-Presentation copy by the Editor/Author.