Challenger Expedition

Holothurians

These tinted lithographs are cut from the massive Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-76 Under the Command of Captain George S. Nares, R.N., F.R.S. and the Late Captain Frank Tourle Thomson, R.N. Prepared under the Superintendence of the Late Sir C. Wyville Thomson, 1885-1895.

Size: 9.5 x 12.5 inches
Printed on sturdy, white stock
with minimal age toning.

The Challenger Expedition is the most famous oceanographic expedition of all time.  Under the command of George Nares, HMS Challenger set out in December, 1872, on a three-year voyage with the mission of exploring the structure and physical composition of the world's ocean beds and determining the temperature and direction of deep-sea currents.  In addition, biologists were charged with cataloguing the flora and fauna they encountered.  By the end of the voyage, the Challenger had taken hundreds of soundings and traversed more than 68,000 nautical miles.

The results of the expedition-- published in 50 volumes--were described by Sir John Murray as the "greatest advance in the knowledge of our planet since the  celebrated discoveries of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries."  Besides mapping  the ocean floor and showing the existence of such features as the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and Mariana Trench, the expedition discovered 715 new genera and 4,717 new species of ocean life forms, many of which were found at unheard of depths.

 


 
Name
Price
Condition
HOLO-3
Sold
Excellent
HOLO-11
Sold
Excellent
HOLO-30
45.00
Excellent
HOLO-27
45.00
Excellent

benthoides sordida
HOLO-24
 Benthodytes sordida
 45.00 Excellent

achlyonice paradoxa
HOLO-05
 Achlyonice paradoxa

Scotoplanes globosa
45.00 Excellent

Challenger
Holothurians

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