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Description: | off Inosima, Japan This sponge was collected off the coast of Japan during the voyage of the H.M.S. Challenger.
The H.M.S. Challenger set sail for the sole purpose of scientific exploration of the oceans of the world. It was the first such voyage to be funded solely for this purpose and remains the 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 inspiring other marine expeditions from around the world.
William Benjamin Carter and Charles Wyville Thomson, both renowned British scientists, were the moving force behind such a significant scientific project. The Challenger traversed 68890 nautical miles taking deep-sea samples from 362 stations covering all but the Indian Ocean.
Scientific findings from the expedition were written up in 50 hefty volumes which catalogued 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: | PORIFHEXACT : AMPHIDISCOSIDA : HYALONEMA : GLASS SPONGE : 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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