Archive image from page 10 of The depths of the sea;. The depths of the sea; an account of the general results of the dredging cruises of SS. 'Porcupine' and 'Lightning' during the summers of 1868, 1869 and 1870, under the scientific direction of Dr. Carpenter, J. Gwyn Jeffreys, and Dr. Wyville Thomson depthsofseaaccou02thom Year: 1874 rREFACE. At the close of the Deep-sea Dredging- Expeditious which had heen undertaken by the Admiralty at the instance of the Council of the Royal Society during the years 1868, 18G9, and 1870, it was thought right that those who had heen entrusted with t
Archive image from page 10 of The depths of the sea;. The depths of the sea; an account of the general results of the dredging cruises of SS. 'Porcupine' and 'Lightning' during the summers of 1868, 1869 and 1870, under the scientific direction of Dr. Carpenter, J. Gwyn Jeffreys, and Dr. Wyville Thomson depthsofseaaccou02thom Year: 1874 rREFACE. At the close of the Deep-sea Dredging- Expeditious which had heen undertaken by the Admiralty at the instance of the Council of the Royal Society during the years 1868, 18G9, and 1870, it was thought right that those who had heen entrusted with their scien- tific direction should, in addition to their official reports, lay before the general public some account of their proceedings with the objects ;—first, of show- ing, if possible, that the value of the additions which had been made to human knowledge justified the liberality of Government in acceding to the request of the Council of the Koyal Society, and placing means at their disposal to carry out the desired researches; and, secondly, of giving such a popular outline of the remarkable results of our work as might stimulate general interest, and induce those who have the proclivities and the opportunity, to penetrate farther into the new and strange region on whose borders we have had the good fortune to have been amonu' the first to encroach.
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