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Description: | *non loc* Loose sample stored in a black topped jar. Piece of paper with the inscription 'ex' handwritten. No original historical data with the sample.
The H.M.S. Challenger set sail for the sole purpose of scientific exploration as the 1st and most famous expedition of its kind. The four year voyage from 1872-1876 was considered the birth of oceanography providing proof that life existed in the deep sea bed and leading a following of further deep-sea expeditions from around the world.
William Benjamin Carter and Charles Wyville Thomson both renowned British scientists were the founders behind such a significant scientific project whereby no amount of money had ever been spent on a single scientific exploration before. The Challenger traversed 68890 nautical miles taking deep-sea samples from all but the Indian oceans.
Scientific findings made 50 volumes cataloguing the 4717 new species found from the 6055 wet samples, 180 stocked tins of dry samples and 22 casks with bottles of preserved specimens in brine collected during the time spent at sea.
For more information:
http://hercules.kgs.ku.edu/hexacoral/expedition/challenger_1872-1876/challenger.html | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | PROTOZFORAM : FORAMMISC : CHALLENGER : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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