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Challenger Expedition
Reef Corals

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 artist is A. Gawan
and the lithographer is Mintern Brothers

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.

jcorwin@classicnatureprints	Name	Price	Condition
Coral-01	Stylophora flabellata S. Cellulosa Pocillopra paucistallata P. solida Oculina recta O. coronalis	40.00	Excellent
Coral-02	Seriatopora conferta S. aculeata S. crassa S. stallata Symphyllia acuta Mussa brueggemanni	40.00	Excellent
Coral-03	Physogyra aperta Goniastraea multilobata G. coronalis G. laxa Ulophyllia aspera U. cellulosa	40.00	Excellent
Coral-04	Phymastraea aspera Acanthastraea irregularis Cyphastraea aspera Galaxea aspera G. explanata G. fragilis	40.00	Excellent
Coral-05	Merulina prolifera Oxypora contorta Tichoseris obtusata Domoseris porosa D. Solid D. regularis Agaricia regularis Hydnkophora tenella	40.00	Excellent
Coral-06	Fungia tenuidens F. rugosa Cycloseris discus Cylloseris incrustans Podabacia robusta Psammocora ramosa	40.00	Excellent
Coral-07	Sandalolitha dentata Dendrophyllia conferta Turbinaria awqualis Millepora confertissima M. murrayi	40.00	Excellent
Coral-08	Montipora fragilis M. levis M. obtusata M irregularis M. exserta Napopora irregularis Rhodarrhoea tenuidens	40.00	Excellent
Coral-09	Madrepora manni M. canalis M. parilis M. minima M. angulata M. confrga	40.00	Excellent
Coral-10	Madrepora speciosa M. scabrosa M. conferta M. vastula M. mirabilis Anacrophoa gracilis A. solida	40.00	Excellent
Coral-11	Tichopora tenella Porites crassa P. explanata P. crassistellata P. mirabils P. latistellata P.bulbosa P. parvistellata	40.00	Excellent
Coral-12	Moseleya latistellata Strombodes murchisoni Cyathophyllulm regium C. marmini	40.00	Excellent

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