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S . 1877 Coast -78 Survey and 1878 Steamer -79 , and Blake the . summer The first of cruise 1880 , , under Mr . Agassiz the command had charge of Lieut of . the -Commander dredging Gulf Sigsbee of , Mexico U . S . N ., . comprised The second an expedition exploration , under of the Commander bottom of the John Straits Bartlett of , Florida U . S . N . , , the extended Yucatan their Bank exploration , and a part along of the the | Larger Antilles , the greater part of the time being spent in dredging in the eastern part of the Caribbean , along the ocean Windward along Islands the east . coast The third of the cruise United , also States under from Commander Charleston Bartlett to George , was ' s Bank a rapid . exploration of the bottom of the subjects The which first volume formed contains the problems an account to the solution of the genera of which l results the , Blake the different cruises have chap contributed ters being . devoted A general to the historical special undertook sketch of deep a systematic -sea work study ehows of the the impoi thai tant ass ography part played of the by North American American expeditions Atlantic to . the The time outfi when t of the the Coast Blake Survey for its It work was is natu fully ral described that working . This along has greatl the Florida y modified Coast the a apparatus chapter should subsequently be devoted used to by other the coral deep reefs -sea dredging of Florida expeditions , which a « . far Louis back Agassiz as 1851 . had formed a subject of investigation oC one of the earlier Coast Survey expeditions under Professor The present state of our knowledge of the Gulf Stream is traced from the earliest sources to the extended investi-Gulf gations of carried Mexico , on and since of 1845 the Caribbean by the officers is fully of the illustrated U . S . Coast , as Survey developed . The by topography the soundings of the of the Western Blake t Atlantic not only , during of the temperature the time of sections Mr . Agassiz also ' a taken cruises by , but the both Blake previously have enabled and Mr subsequently . Agassiz to by present the same a . general vessel . sketch The great of the number thermic of conditions the nature of of the the sea bottom in the of districts the district explored traversed by the by the Blak Blake ? , and . from the mass of soundings taken a good idea is given of Incidentally Mr . Agassiz discusses also iftie many geological and paloBontologlcal problems which have been developed physical by the recent and physiological deep-sea expeditions data collected , and which by the have Blake an are impor thus tan all t bearing treated on connectedl many biological y and form questions a general of the essay day on . The the thalassography of the Western North Atlantic . the natural The first history volume of is the fully bottom illustrate of the d sea by , maps of the , sections districts , and explored figures by . the The Blake second y and volume each class is more of the specially animal devoted kingdom to is treated in its turn ; the most important deep-spa typos are figured so that the reader may attain an excellent idea of the relations appearance to past of the times deep , and -sea the fauna chapters o ( T our on Atlantic the pelagic const . fauna A general and flora sketc point h of the out West tbe Indian intimate abys connection sal fauna shows -there its is of betwee the n oceanic the animals basins . living on the surface along our shores and those which have found their way into the deeper parts and A flora short . It sketch was of of course tho natural icnpossible history for of one the person West to India study Islands carefully also the attempts materials to trace collected the past during history the cruises of Its fauna and the the author elaboration has availed of tho special hitnaelf collections of tho results , and of which tho Reports have been or completed tho many only naturalists a fow months who wore ago kind . enough to undertake , to give This a complete work is iasuod understanding in two octavo of the volumos subject , . profusel The scientific y illustrated value , and of the with book Maps is amply , Diagrams guarauteed , and all by that its authorship is necessary . London : SAMPSON St . Dunstan LOW , s MARSTON House , Fetter , SEARLE ane , Fleet Str & RIVINGTON , E . G . , Limited ,

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